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MATERIALS REQUIRED:
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Parts by Volume Ingredient How Used Common Source
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60 Gasoline Motor Fuel Gas station or motor vehicle
2 (flake) or Lye Drain cleaner, Food store or Drug store
1 (powder) making of soap
15 Rosin Manufacturing Paint store, chemical supply
Paint & Varnish house
or
Castor Oil Medicine Food and Drug stores
PROCEDURE
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|CAUTION: Make sure that there are no open flames in the area when mixing |
|the flame fuel. NO SMOKING! |
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1. Pour gasoline into jar, bottle or other container. (DO NOT USE AN ALUMINUM
CONTAINER.)
2. IF rosin is in cake form, crush into small pieces.
3. Add rosin or castor oil to the gasoline and stir for about five minutes to
mix thoroughly.
4. In a second container (NOT ALUMINUM) add lye to an equal volume of water
slowly with stirring.
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|CAUTION: Lye solution can burn skin and destroy clothing. If any is |
|spilled, wash away immediately with large quantities of water. |
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5. Add lye solution to the gasoline mix and stir until mixture thickens (about
one minute).
NOTE: The sample will eventually thicken to a very firm paste. This can be
thinned, if desired, by stirring in additional gasoline.
Lye-Alcohol Systems
Lye (also know as caustic soda or Sodium Hydroxide) can be used in
combination with alcohol and any of several fats to gel gasoline for use as a
flame fuel.
MATERIALS REQUIRED:
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Parts by Volume Ingredient How Used Common Source
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60 Gasoline Motor Fuel Gas station or motor vehicle
2 (flake) or Lye Drain cleaner, Food store or Drug store
1 (powder) making of soap
3 Ethyl Alcohol Whiskey Liquor store
Medicine Drug store
NOTE: Methyl (wood) alcohol or isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol can be substituted
for ethyl alcohol, but their use produces softer gels.
14 Tallow Food Fats rendered by cooking the
Making of soap meat or suet of animals.
NOTE: The following can be substituted for the tallow:
(a) Wool grease (Lanolin) (very good) -- Fat extracted from sheep wool
(b) Castor Oil (good)
(c) Any vegetable oil (corn, cottonseed, peanut, linseed, etc.)
(d) Any fish oil
(e) Butter or oleo margarine
It is necessary when using substitutes (c) to (e) to double the given amount
of fat and of lye for satisfactory body.
PROCEDURE
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