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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 |
--------------- ---------- -------- ------------- |
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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