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THE OFFICIAL GUTTED!!! THREAD 3-Aug-2009 At 8:08:37 PM muki

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On 28/07/2009 wallwombat wrote:
>On 28/07/2009 gordoste wrote:
>>wallwombat wants to buy it
>
>No I don't.
>
>I was just wondering if the gear was put down briefly on the garage floor
>or left sitting there for a while.
>
>If it was just put down briefly, I'd chuck everything in the bath and
>give it a good wash and see how it all goes, rather than deciding it was
>all cactus and righting it off.

if the gear was soaked in petrol it would not suffer much, but a rope failed in Yosemite when (even though new) it was placed on the ground in the car park, it failed, the guy died, later an inquiry discovered microscopic amounts of battery acid at the point where it failed.
the garage floor would worry me if any acid (battery or other) was ever spilt.
but petrol ? you can wash ropes in that !