On 5/15/2021 5:08 PM, Tekkie� wrote:

On Sat, 15 May 2021 14:59:09 -0400, Frank posted for all of us to digest...


On 5/15/2021 2:20 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 05/15/2021 09:33 AM, Frank wrote:
On 5/15/2021 11:07 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 14 May 2021 10:34:40 -0400, Ralph Mowery
wrote:



A friend told me yesterday while he was getting gas a woman had a
double
layer of the plastic grocery bags and was filling it up with gas at a
pump.Â* She tied it up and put it in the trunk of her car.Â* He could not
see if she set it in a bucket or box.Â* I hope she made it home safe.

Your friend must not be alone.Â* Just heard on the radio that some govt.
national safety agency warned a couple days ago against carrying
gasoline in plastic bags.


When I was in high school I was doing something to the lawn mower,
trying to clean small parts maybe, and I soaked them in gasoline in a
little plastic dish that frozen? food had come in, and after 30 or 60
minutes, the dish started to turn into a puddle.Â* Not at all sure, but I
don't think they use that kind of plastic much anymore.


Most likely polystyrene.Â*Â* Most plastics are not soluble in gasoline but
above its melting point, polyethylene is soluble.

https://www.survivalkit.com/blog/make-napalm-styrofoam/

Don't let him fool you. micky was a teenage terrorist.


That is true. Original Napalm recipe used metallic soaps as gelling
agent later switched to polystyrene.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.


You would like the book, "The Scientific Method - A Personal Account of
Unusual Projects in War and in Peace", by Harvard Professor Louis F.
Fieser. It includes his work on napalm and other neat things in the
WWII timeline. Fieser was on a speaking tour for his book and I talked
to him for about 20 minutes in my lab while he chain smoked four Lark
cigarettes. At this time period he was also on the Surgeon Generals
Committee that declared smoking caused lung cancer. He said he thought
the charcoal filter would protect him but he later got lung cancer. It
was cured but he only lived a few more years.