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Subject: [TowerTalk] lost processes......way OT
From: <lstoskopf@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 22:03:35 -0400
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A Chem E relative of mine who worked in the Pacific NW in a plant where they 
made Vanillin out of some tree byproduct related that they cooked the stuff in 
big vats before processing.  Had for a long time.  One day an old guy that 
worked there took a prolonged vacation and soon the brew started developing 
more and more foam that ran over everything, so much so that they had to start  
using smaller batches.  He came back and was quickly surrounded by quality 
control to see what he did.  The batch started to foam so he reached up on the 
wooden wall, pulled off a little tar paper and threw into the mix.  Foam 
stopped.  When asked why he did that he commented that years ago he saw a bit 
of the stuff fall into the batch which stopped the foaming so he just always 
did it that way.  Undocumented, luckily!

Sorry for the OT bit.  Such would never happen in a science based hobby like 
ours.

N0UU
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