Now I really don't want it to bite me or mine!
How hot is too hot for a snake? I can heat that sucker up if need be.
No ideas on how corrosive the ammonia/chlorine gas would be?
Didn't see till just now.
Cl gas is ***VERY*** corrosive. It'll be hell on your tools. Enough of it might actually render a sheet-steel shed unsafe for use.
When I was at the water plant several years ago, we had an incident (another shift, fortunately - I was out of town for it) where one of our guys mistakenly directed a Polyaluminum Chloride delivery driver to hook up his hose to the inlet for one of our banks of Sodium Hypochlorite storage tanks. PACl is a mild acid used in water clarification, NaOCl is a mild base used for water disinfection (and is about twice the Cl concentration as household bleach, for the record). Both are added to the same water, but in low concentrations and at different times. Here, a few hundred gallons of PACl were batch-added to several thousand gallons of NaOCl before the mistake was caught. Result - significant heat generation, salts gunking up the three NaOCl tanks on that side, and enough Cl gas to etch and corrode every metal fitting and surface in the room. Which we were told later was actually a pretty low concentration of Cl gas, considering the amounts of chemicals involved - most of it was contained in the NaOCl tanks. Total cleanup cost was about $250K.
For this reason among others, don't do it.
(BTW - guy did NOT get fired, although he did lose his new position as a Lead Operator and went back to being a senior worker bee on that shift. Ended up leaving the company for another water plant with a different company about a year later, IIRC.)