TROUBLE SHOOTING EMULSION HANDLING PROBLEMS
| Cause | Lumps in Tank | Breaks in Lines | Foam | Sediment | Watery | Breaks too Fast | Breaks too Slowly | Won't Coat Agg | Won't Set | Poor Adhesion | Fails Visc | Fails Sieve |
| Emulsion overheated |  | | | | | | | |||||
| Old | | | | | | | | | ||||
| Unstable to pumping | | | | | | | | |||||
| Too much pumping | | | | | | | | | | |||
| Samples non rep or badly stored | | | | |||||||||
| Contamination | | | | |||||||||
| Too Coarse | | | | | | | | |||||
| Wrong emulsion | | | | | | |||||||
| Insufficient mixing | | | | | | | ||||||
| Water dilution poor | | |||||||||||
| Aggregate | ||||||||||||
| dirty | | | | |||||||||
| oncompatible | | | | | ||||||||
| tar precoat | | | ||||||||||
| Conditions | ||||||||||||
| too hot | | | | |||||||||
| too cold | | |||||||||||
| too humid | | |||||||||||