And There I Was, watching the Western Channel on my DTV of an old BnW 50s version, rerun of Matt Dillon before it was changed to Gunsmoke, and I caught a word from Kitty when Matt offered to buy her breakfast at Delmonicos. She gratefully accepted and said, maybe they will have fresh eggs for a change instead of those freighted in preserved in Sodium Silicate. Id not heard of the chemical until 1967, and an old family friend of my folks, Dry Creek Jim Deming, a mechanic and all around fix-it guy when he was needed. I had a headgasket leaking on my old 58 Ford P/up and he looked at it, he said it wasnt bad enough to be too concerned about, just get a quart of water glass and pour it in the radiator, then he explained what it was and where to buy it...then he showed me the radiator on his old Dodge P/up through the grill and raised the hood...there was a stick jammed plum through the radiator, but not into the fan...he said his wife and him were hunting and he was turning around in a tight place where the road was blocked, and accidently jill poked the radiator with a dead limb from old logging slash. Steam came out and he was a long way from help or water, but always carried a couple quarts of water glass behind the seat, from past experiences...he poured the chemical into the radiator and went on about his way...the waterglass mixture eventually seeped out by the stick and sealed the leak off...that was 4 years ago...So, I went where he said was the only place that sold Sodium Silicate, the Drug Store in John Day and bought 3 qts of it off the display shelf...poured one in my radiator and put two behind the seat just-in-case...my headgasket seep stopped as soon as the waterglass contacted air it turned to glass, and gently sealed the leak, and Im still sold on the stuff...Its been around since the 1600s, and was used in the latter 1800s before refridgeration to preserve commercially produced chicken eggs, by dipping and sealing the shells to keep them long term fresh and not spoil...I was kinda surprised of the word being in a script of the old west...
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:07:50 +0000
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