do they salt the roads in Colorado in winter?

[Monsterlover]

We got to alcohol in 12 posts.

You guys are slipping

[Jobu]

No rust?  no likey.

As noted, they don't use salt salt, but magnesium chloride for the highways.  It's less corrosive that salt though.  But, you need a sprayer truck to put it down since it's a solution, so towns and such still use salt.

no salt.

plenty of rocks and magnesium chloride.

Still a halide salt.  Anything with chlorine and a positive ion is a halide salt.  The chlorine (halide, and they are extremely reactive) is the corrosive element and it will still cause rust.  Still corrodes things, especially steel and aluminum.  Just supposedly less reactive, especially with soils, which is why they use them.  When buying a car or anything used:  Caveat emptor.

[Randimus Maximus]

fine.

get all technical and shit. 

just because I don't go to college anymore doesn't me I don't know that it is a salt like substance. 

you make it sound like I couldn't equate mag chloride to something like sodium chloride.

[herm]

whatever the substance they use in colorado, its way less corrosive than the salt used here in new england, and other places.

my truck is a 1999 colorado vehicle. people around here are regularly amazed at how good shape the body is in for a ten year old vehicle.


it'll rust out here in a year or two no doubt

[NAKID]

They use the MgCl spray here on the freeways. Even most of the major raods.

[Randimus Maximus]

They use the MgCl spray here on the freeways. Even most of the major raods.

I didn't know that you lived in Colorado.

[NAKID]

My post was in response to Herm's post above mine regarding New England.... So nya!

[Randimus Maximus]

My post was in response to Herm's post above mine regarding New England.... So nya!

but that has NOTHING to do with CDOT's choice of ice/snow melt here.

[herm]

My post was in response to Herm's post above mine regarding New England.... So nya!

i wasnt responding to your post.......just commenting on what i see here in NH, and what i grew up with in maine.

[NAKID]

I know you were. I said I was responding to yours...

[Randimus Maximus]

I know you were. I said I was responding to yours...

but still not relevant to this thread.

[somegirl]

but still not relevant to this thread.

Come on Randy, you're not used to threadjacking by now?  This was pretty mild.

[NAKID]

but still not relevant to this thread.

And again, not talking to you. Stop getting butt-hurt...

[Randimus Maximus]

who's butt-hurt?   

[NAKID]

The guy who keeps posting up every time something is said that isn't 100% completely relevant to this thread...