Sodium Silicate Eye

06-28-2011 Sodium Silicate Eye

After visiting every auto parts store on my street (there are 3) not one had a new muffler for my 2004 Ranger. At the last store, however, they recommended a "Muffler Band-Aid" that is essentially a fiberglass strip that's bonded with sodium silicate (liquid glass) to tolerate the heat from the muffler. After soaking the strip in the liquid glass and not wearing eye protection, I flung the patch over the hole in my muffler only to have a drop of the fluid land square in my left eye. I now know what it feels like to have cement form over your eyeball, and it's not pleasant. 10 minutes of flushing with water later, I was still in pain but could see enough to finish the patch. I've yet to actually test the patch job, but I'm sure any long-term eye damage will far outcost any savings I may have accomplished with it.

User Comments for 06-28-2011:

So every villain becomes a villain either by a metal accident scaring them or loosing an eye. With both happening to you at once, you're destined to try and take over the world, with your purple truck!
Stavos

Or his villainy will be canceled out by his own villainy.
MorlockPrime

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