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xoxoxoBruce · 06-06-2013, 12:22 AM

Everyone uses various recipes of Portland Cement because it's been tested to death, and all the engineering tables use it. In order to use something else in anything but your backyard Bar-B-Que, you'd have to have a shitload of testing and paperwork.
Ain't nobody got time for that.

06-06-2013, 12:22 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Everyone uses various recipes of Portland Cement because it's been tested to death, and all the engineering tables use it. In order to use something else in anything but your backyard Bar-B-Que, you'd have to have a shitload of testing and paperwork. Ain't nobody got time for that. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.