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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 238000, member: 54"]WHAP! That's the sound of today's forehead-slap, triggered by the realization that my investigation of this "media" contained a giant gap, to wit, my failure to thoroughly inspect the 55-gal. Drum containing this stuff. The steel covers of these things are usually secured with a circular band tightened by a bolt, after struggling with that the day I got it, I set the cover aside, upside-down. Today I went to replace the cover and finally noticed the very- faded label "used desiccant." Used desiccant is completely worthless unless it is the Rechargeable type, and as to that IHNI. It sure isn't "media" I can use for vibratory cleaning though. So all I can say is "Duh" and some other things I don't want to post here. I'll see if the Vendor will refund and let me dump the stuff locally-normally they require return but the cost to ship it back might exceed the refund, anyway I'm not too concerned either way, I took a risk in buying it and lost; life goes on!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://springfieldarsenal.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/img_5154.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 238000, member: 54"]WHAP! That's the sound of today's forehead-slap, triggered by the realization that my investigation of this "media" contained a giant gap, to wit, my failure to thoroughly inspect the 55-gal. Drum containing this stuff. The steel covers of these things are usually secured with a circular band tightened by a bolt, after struggling with that the day I got it, I set the cover aside, upside-down. Today I went to replace the cover and finally noticed the very- faded label "used desiccant." Used desiccant is completely worthless unless it is the Rechargeable type, and as to that IHNI. It sure isn't "media" I can use for vibratory cleaning though. So all I can say is "Duh" and some other things I don't want to post here. I'll see if the Vendor will refund and let me dump the stuff locally-normally they require return but the cost to ship it back might exceed the refund, anyway I'm not too concerned either way, I took a risk in buying it and lost; life goes on! [IMG]https://springfieldarsenal.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/img_5154.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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