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02:42:12 Devastator: Egan must be sleeping.
02:44:40 Devastator: ugh, well, time to rest eyes and maybe update Extinction.
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03:20:02 Devastator: doing ok, but got extra work this week.
03:20:20 MJ: Ah, that's always tough, any extra pay at least? :P
03:22:14 MJ: Well at least there's always the lizard brain lure of coin
03:22:42 Devastator: I'm not really angry at it, it's covering for the guy who covered for my vacation.
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03:31:34 Devastator: yeah. Had a spicy day of it today, lots of stuff to fix.
03:31:52 MJ: anything particuarly weird?
03:33:17 Devastator: Yeah, fell victim to the overrated overload switches again.
03:33:32 Devastator: I got a real runaround trying to replace them a year ago, this time I'm gonna get them done.
03:33:55 Devastator: There's also the 100% ordinary ever-jammed wrapping machine.
03:33:59 Devastator: jammed up brutally again.
03:34:27 Devastator: Then I was a dumbass and forgot it needs to heat up before functioning properly, so I didn't realize I had it fixed.
03:35:03 Devastator: ended up being a bent staple.
03:35:13 MJ: Wrapping machine? Like wraps clothes up in plastic?
03:35:31 Devastator: Quite literally, yeah. When we send out our coveralls we bundle them.
03:35:40 Devastator: there's a few machines for that.
03:35:52 Devastator: They're all innately finicky.
03:35:55 Devastator: just due to how they work.
03:36:15 Devastator: Usually what we end up doing is just training the guys to fix ordinary jams.
03:36:25 Devastator: they get good at it and it goes quickly.
03:37:26 Devastator: But there's always days where it's rough and we do get new people.
03:38:03 Devastator: Although these are straps. We do bundle bedding in plastic, but the wrapping machines there are 100% manual and are as close to unbreakable as a thing can be.
03:38:34 Devastator: (a hot metal bar, a tray on rollers, and a few unpowered rollers.
03:38:54 Devastator: So you literally just put the plastic in, move it around a couple of the rollers, and it comes out on top.
03:39:00 Devastator: I still have to fix them sometimes.
03:41:05 Devastator: Oh, also had the other damper bolt break on the boiler yesterday.
03:41:15 Devastator: but that we knew about so it was easy to take care of.
03:43:40 MJ: So do you guys use special soaps? Or is just huge quaneties of normal soap
03:43:47 MJ: And how big are the washing units/
03:45:08 Devastator: as for the soap, we use the components of normal soap and have a pretty fancy computer-controlled mixing machine.
03:45:32 Devastator: but yeah, the components. They get mixed in at appropriate times during the cycle.
03:45:51 Devastator: in all honesty it'd get stuff cleaner if you could do that with normal machines.
03:46:44 MJ: Makes sense, apperentlly most hospitals run their own laundry service somehow and they will get pretty much any stain out of your scrubs. Hell if I know how.
03:48:10 Devastator: We do hospital laundry for the clinics around here.
03:48:14 Devastator: it's nothing special.
03:48:20 MJ: Ah, so your part of the dark magic
03:49:23 Devastator: Detergent, alkali, a component that sort of provides a base for the soap to work, and a component that neutralizes the excess alkali.
03:49:36 Devastator: There's also bleach.
03:49:43 Devastator: and bleach neutralizer.
03:49:49 Devastator: basically anti-bleach.
03:50:01 Devastator: bleach isn't just die.
03:51:06 MJ: Bad joke, of the opposite of bleach being a dye.
03:51:12 MJ: Should have made that clearer my bad
03:51:45 MJ: Genuinely didn't know that there was such thing as bleach neutralizer
03:51:57 Devastator: Actually, it's the one component I can't tell you what it is off the top of my head.
03:52:13 Devastator: the base component is a funky mini-polymer thing.
03:52:31 Devastator: but it's not that weird, it's just to keep things wet if grease is present.
03:52:54 MJ: Neat, is that the neutralizer?
03:55:21 Devastator: no, the brand name for the chemical is "Structure"
03:55:35 Devastator: but it's essentially a base material.
03:55:53 Devastator: The big difference is probably that we have steam cleaning. The hot cycles are at 160+ F.
03:56:12 Devastator: Bleach is bleach, same as normal bleach.
03:56:18 Devastator: the detergent is the same as normal detergent.
03:56:30 Devastator: the alkali is plain sodium hydroxide.
03:56:50 Devastator: the neutralizer is a weak acid, nothing special.
03:57:02 Devastator: Can't recall what the bleach neutralizer is.
03:57:22 Devastator: and the base component is a sort of polymer-like thing that's both hydrophobic and hydrophilic.
03:57:42 Devastator: it's there so it keeps foaming if there's grease in the load.
03:57:52 Devastator: which for quite a lot of what we do there is.
03:59:12 MJ: Oh like an emulsfir, thats called amphipathic
04:01:21 Devastator: Yeah, it's a mouthful to describe.
04:01:25 Devastator: lemme find the card for it.
04:06:52 Devastator: having trouble since they gave it such a generic name, and I don't have the hazardous materials card.
04:07:13 MJ: I've got the idea from your descriptino
04:07:29 MJ: It emulsifies things to keep the grease from clogging shit
04:08:20 MJ: your gallbladder actually does a similar thing.
04:08:31 MJ: bile is an emulsifier that breaks up fat/grease
04:10:53 MJ: Yeah without it you don't break down fat very well because noone of the lipases can actualy get at it
04:11:22 MJ: It's also why frontiers man would use a bears gallbladder as hair mouse
04:11:38 MJ: Whatever the name for old timey hair gel is
04:14:22 Devastator: although isn't that still in current use?
04:14:37 Devastator: I think 'pomade' is the archaic word.
04:14:55 MJ: pomade that's what I was thinking of
04:15:48 Devastator: a quick google tells me they're different things.
04:17:14 Devastator: Yeah, different products.
04:17:28 Devastator: Gel you top up in the morning, pomade you can re-combe it repeatedly.
04:17:42 MJ: Yeah I think that used it as pomade
04:35:35 MJ: Alrihgt I should proabbly go to bed
04:37:55 MJ: Good luck fixing the things
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