Some folks don't deserve to use the outdoors. My friend Pete, ( 1822MC Adventures and More ), fights this same battle a lot, here at the Croatian National Forest in North Carolina. He's for ever having to pick up after these pigs. Thank you for your time, it's nice to know some folks still care.
Is it blowing itself out? I don’t know anything about it, but it’s just not cutting the whole time? Hard to understand for someone inexperienced lol ..but fascinating either way 👍🏻
I'm pretty sure that's close to what the issue is, it seems like there's too much moisture in the air coming in to the torch head so I think I need to put another desiccator in the airline. I'll pick one up tomorrow and give it another test, and hopefully post an update for everyone.
❤bismuth is so pretty! I have a bismuth crystal that a young man in grand junction colorado made and very generously gave to me when I bought a car from him. 😊 ps. I still have the bismuth but not the car. That should speak volumes. 😅 😊
Can anyone tell a complete novice if acetone is actually being released/burned during the burning of the gel (is it releasing a secondary combustant) or is it just burning the alcohol?
This is correct, however boiling 36% acetic acid indoors is very unwise, hence why I went with a lower percentage. Theoretically it should be safe if you measure out correct molar amounts of calcium carbonate to match, but to save time and simplify the process I added an excess of vinegar so as much safer to stay with the food grade stuff
What happens to the calcium acetate when the alcohol burns? It doesn't pollute the air, does it? If just the alcohol burns, can the remainder be reused in some way?
Looks like the Old Spice deoderant i used to slice up and burn forever, like 30 years ago. My mom wondered why i used a lot..... but it was darn good at melting the faces off barbies that my sister's had, and some g.i. joes.
That's pretty troublesome. CaCO3 in powdered form is pretty easy to find for cheap, so I don't see any reason to go out of your way to crush up some pills and further process it and deal with all that impurities. Even using just crushed up dried egg shells would have been a more efficient source of CaCO3. Furthermore, the color of the flame on the gel depends on the alcohol you used in the process. Methanol and Ethanol gives off a blue flame that may or may not be clear to the eye (depending on the purity of the end product), whereas Isopropyl gives off a more orange flame.
For most people that's probably the easiest source of calcium carbonate. I personally have an intolerance to eggs and therefore rarely eat them so it would likely take me a long time to collect enough eggshells to make any meaningful amount of calcium acetate
@@laurice8056 if you can find ones made from calcium carbonate those work great. The only ones I could find at the store near me were made from calcium sulfate so they wouldn't have worked.
My advice? Add the vinegar... stir... leave.... take spoon and eat it. It's the only way your body stands half a chance of absorbing those precious supplements... namely vitamin D... and calcium. VITAMIN D...? Half the planet has a deficiency... so do question what's in our milk...? ....and anything else for that matter. When your recommended intake of vitamin D is as low as 10/1,000,000 gram do ask yourself? *"HOW CAN I HAVE A DEFICIENCY GOD DAMN IT???"* ...AND USE HAND GEL FOR FUEL 👍
