– 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

It does! There was an episode of ‘Dirty Jobs’ back in the day about chipping the cement off the inside of a mixer ….

https://generalchipping.com/dirty-jobs-chipping-concrete/

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