– How does leftover cement in cement trucks not harden and slowly accumulate in the mixer, essentially clogging it?

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Title says it all; I’m sure a thin layer of cement will be left over after they poor it all, and I would imagine that thin layer would harden and then the next time they use the mixer another thin layer would be leftover and so on and so forth. After a while I would imagine it would accumulate to the point where it renders the mixer unusable.

Why is this not the case?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Well the funny thing is that sometimes it does, you just break it out manually by hand with power tools and hammers. Or if you’re a crazy person explosives. Ask the Mythbusters how much explosives it takes to make a cement truck completely disappear.

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