Easy of BANG

OK, it's been far too long since the last update here. Let's start 2009 off with a humorous one...

The title on this post is no joke. There is a cleaning fluid with that precise name, and below is an exerpt from some correspondence between two engineers on the use of this fluid for cleaning a machine-hall. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

It all started with a very normal and humdrum request: "I have brought a bottle of Easy of BANG along in order to check whether it works or not for the cleaning of clinic floor. You might have noted the stains on clinic floor looking very ugly. I have tested it today and the result is fantastic. Pls arrange to buy 20 bottles and send at the earliest possible."

On 7th of November this mail came from the same person:
"Cleaning work is in progress. Since the floor was very dirty, cleaner is being consumed quite a lot. I think we need an equal quantity of Easy of BANG again."

This meant that 20 bottles of cleaning -liquid had been consumed in two days of work. Some swift calculations in our maintenance department established that each bottle was enough to clean 1000 sqm of area. Naturally, eyebrows were raised and the level of consumption was questioned. The following reply came back:

"It’s not a surface which you clean by soap-water or some simple cleaners which you mix with water in the proportion of 10ml cleaner: 10L of water. We are talking about the dirt leftover by construction works – its white cement stick to tile and the dirt on the top. My colleague did try many alternative ways to clean it but unable to do so thus dirt remained there for such a long period of time. Recently an Indian in his visit at Kirne suggested us to try with Easy of BANG. I brought one bottle (200ml) along last time and tested in my toilet – it worked and then tested at clinic floor- it worked there as well."

The key here is the last sentence above. I have no idea, and don't want to know, if the home toilet is a good testbench for industrial grime removal. But the fact that this engineer did indeed think it was a good place to test tells me much more than I ever want to know about his toilet...