[modeleng] Re: Alumin(i)um was RE: Re: O/T Disposable Propane bottles

Please remove me from the list Alan. I can stand the off topic posts, and enjoy 
them as much as everyone else, but not the racism of this one. A simple 
reference to terrorists would have been acceptable, but not in the way it is 
expressed here.
Sorry to go, as I learned a lot.
Len Smith
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: JESSE LIVINGSTON 
  To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 4:21 PM
  Subject: [modeleng] Re: Alumin(i)um was RE: Re: O/T Disposable Propane bottles

  Phill,

  Sodium Hydroxide, Lye and Caustic Soda, all the same and all will burn your
  skin badly if not neutralized by application of vinegar (Acetic Acid).
  Caustic Soda is still sold here in the States as "Lye" and was at one time
  added to hog feed to act as a de-wormer and is still used to make home made
  soap. Boiling oily materials in Caustic Soda will remove all traces of the
  oil by converting the slickum into soap.  I used it mixed with Ammonium
  Nitrate to blue gun parts quickly and have never tried it on models, but it
  will give steel a nice dark blue-black colo(u)r.  (Notice I spelt colo(u)r
  so you could read it).  Actually the Ammonium Nitrate is what blues the
  steel, but the Lye is needed to raise the boiling point to the point where
  the nitrate can colo(u)r the steel.  Ammonium nitrate may be getting hard to
  come by because of it is actually an explosive that was discovered to also
  be an excellent fertilizer , but now Towel Head sympathizers use it to
  forward their agendas.

  Jesse

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