At 07:18 PM 5/4/2012, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: >Really? It's that simple? We'll find out. > I'll be hornswoggled. Oooh...with a banana slug? May I watch?
>Somehow I picked up the impression that raw eggs hardened into a >tenacious, epoxy-like substance which dug into the paint finish and >required expert attention and advanced cleaning techniques to remove. The white contains albumen, a protein. I'd expect it to wash off fairly well as it takes up water. If it gets too hot in the liquid state though it "denatures" i.e. changes the physical shape of the molecule and becomes insoluble, or hard-boiled as Doctor Science would put it. The yolk contains fat, an emulsifier called lecithin and I don't know what else ( an itsy bitsy chicken sometimes). Egg yolk is used as a binder to make egg tempera paints, which are used by patient icon painters (impatient ones use acrylics). Egg tempera lasts for many centuries* and is quite water resistant but not waterproof as such. So I certainly expect you'll have more trouble with the yolk, but it's not really waterproof and not mechanically strong AFAIK. A wetting agent (common folk use dish detergent) and gentle scrubbing with warm water I expect will do the trick, but I'm not promising. It takes the lecithin of six egg yolks to stabilize one quart of ice cream. I thought you'd like to know that just now. Also, if you don't use mystery coolant you won't get mystery coolant leaks.** *I don't think anyone knows how many, yet. **Might try starting with everything dead cold and putting ten psi in the system (bicycle pump on the overflow nipple, pump in until it starts to push back on the pump), then go up front with a strong light and watch for a while. Yrs, d |
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