[geeks] Help... Pipe rescue

[R. Lonstein]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:27:33AM -0500, Steven Hill wrote:
    [snip]
> You might be able to persuade a local school chemistry
> department to giive you an amp of H2SO4, but I don't know
> how attached schools are to their chemicals here...
    [snip]

Wouldn't a welding or metalwork supply shop have nice high molar
concentrations of sulfuric (for pickling, galvanizing, etc.)? I'd be
concerned that anything strong enough to eat wax would completely waste
the cast iron pipe often found in older drains.

- Ross