Just one quick bitch, part two

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Bought  'white' aluminum trim nails that looked more really light gray to me

[Phoenix]

Bought  'white' aluminum trim nails that looked more really light gray to me

All depends on what light you view them under too.

[Lestat]

Al can be given a number of finishes, be anodized etc, got to say my favourite look is the kind of thing that (sadly the foundry is gone now) you'd get from immersing the big slugs that a local metal foundry threw out in their trash in a caustic bath. Used that plenty as a cheap hydrogen gas source-the solution, if conc. starts to get really hot, and fizzes off H2 like crazy (any small narrow vessel in which a small quantity of gas can be trapped can be used to demonstrate H2 presence, it won't re-ignite a wooden splint lit and put out with only an ember left, as oxygen does, but in the presence of a flame, the H2 captured in an upended testtube etc explodes with a distinctive high-pitched shriek, whereas most common fuel gases on such a scale give more of  whump' noise, Hydrogen gives a distinctive rapid squeaky pop of a far higher pitch than fr.ex a test tube containing butane, acetylene or the like. any aluminium will do, but foil ought to be only used in microscale and tightly wadded to prevent it going too fast to safely capture, and fine Al dust results in a volcano of frothing, boiling caustic blasting its way up and out of where its put, Due to the very large surface area.

After use as a hydrogen source, there'd be a pitted kind of look to the Al slugs I used to be able to find freely, and they'd get a lovely texture to them, 'aged' in moments by the corrosive action of caustic alkali hydroxides on Al.

['andersom']

Al can be given a number of finishes, be anodized etc, got to say my favourite look is the kind of thing that (sadly the foundry is gone now) you'd get from immersing ..... caustic bath. ........and they'd get a lovely texture to them, 'aged' in moments by the corrosive action of caustic alkali hydroxides on Al.

Reading a post of you while the brain is still sleeping is weird.
The things you do to Al that I never dreamed of. 

[Lestat]

Well it was more of a side effect. Typical H2 generation method on a benchtop scale is a reasonably reactive metal and an acid, diluted to suit the speed of gas evolution required, but I find Al/caustic to be far cheaper. It just so happened that the aluminium was being thrown out by this foundry in billets, and I was free to grab as many as wanted, chip chunks of aluminium from crucibles, loads of casting sand that could be cut to shape for things like thermite casting. Went back there recently, in need of some casting sand for a mold and the place has gone out of business

Lol, the back alley behind that place, as a kid, was one place I could often be found if somebody were to look.  A raw materials goldmine and what I didn't need I could always sell on for scrap, for a source of income to fund the lab (yup, always been that way inclined. I put it down to an 'autie thing' if you get what I mean. Taught myself to read with a mycology textbook, I'm told about age 4. So definitely not 'normal' )

[Walkie]

Al can be given a number of finishes, be anodized etc, got to say my favourite look is the kind of thing that (sadly the foundry is gone now) you'd get from immersing ..... caustic bath. ........and they'd get a lovely texture to them, 'aged' in moments by the corrosive action of caustic alkali hydroxides on Al.

Reading a post of you while the brain is still sleeping is weird.
The things you do to Al that I never dreamed of. 

Yep . My mind some some serious boggling there, too
Lestat, you daft  'ap'orth , we thought you were speaking of anodising Al Swearengen, didn't we

['andersom']

Yes, no need to add a lovely texture to them, 'aged' in moments by the corrosive action of caustic alkali hydroxides on Al.

Think his texture ages just fine without the caustic soda.

Edit for layout reasons.

["couldbecousin"]

Al can be given a number of finishes, be anodized etc, got to say my favourite look is the kind of thing that (sadly the foundry is gone now) you'd get from immersing ..... caustic bath. ........and they'd get a lovely texture to them, 'aged' in moments by the corrosive action of caustic alkali hydroxides on Al.

Reading a post of you while the brain is still sleeping is weird.
The things you do to Al that I never dreamed of. 

  It confused me too. 

[Walkie]

  HYke, however, I think Lestat might be onto something here:

fine Al dust results in a volcano of frothing, boiling caustic blasting its way up and out of where its put

but again, no need to grind him into dust 

['andersom']

HYke, however, I think Lestat might be onto something here:

fine Al dust results in a volcano of frothing, boiling caustic blasting its way up and out of where its put

but again, no need to grind him into dust 

Should we encourage Lestat to start a beauty parlour for men, or make him the resident torture expert? (Could be the same thing, of course)

[Walkie]

HYke, however, I think Lestat might be onto something here:

fine Al dust results in a volcano of frothing, boiling caustic blasting its way up and out of where its put

but again, no need to grind him into dust 

Should we encou
rage Lestat to start a beauty parlour for men, or make him the resident torture expert? (Could be the same thing, of course)

The latter i think, The beuty parlour thing made me think of Sweeney Todd 

[Walkie]

Damn stuff gets in your teeth and gets very uncomfortable.

It's where the gnashing of teeth is.

My brain is still waking up. I spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out why the karma stats would get in your teeth 
Hyke's "gnashing" comment seemed to make some sense though!   

['andersom']

HYke, however, I think Lestat might be onto something here:

fine Al dust results in a volcano of frothing, boiling caustic blasting its way up and out of where its put

but again, no need to grind him into dust 

Should we encourage Lestat to start a beauty parlour for men, or make him the resident torture expert? (Could be the same thing, of course)

The latter i think, The beuty parlour thing made me think of Sweeney Todd 

Mince pies with caustic soda flavour would not sell that we'll, I fear.

['andersom']

Damn stuff gets in your teeth and gets very uncomfortable.

It's where the gnashing of teeth is.

My brain is still waking up. I spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out why the karma stats would get in your teeth 
Hyke's "gnashing" comment seemed to make some sense though!   

I'll kick myself in the posterior now. Might get that head out of the sand and breaking over paperwork.
Either way, my head is screwed. But the paperwork will be away for a while if I give it a go.
 

[Lestat]

Methinks some errors in translation took place for a few people there. I was of course, not suggesting dipping grumpy in a bath of lye. Doubt he'd be too pleased with me somehow. And getting that stuff in your eyes; jesus it hurts, absolute fucking murder. Even with stingy doctors in that area I ended up getting a pain med script doubled, for a strong opiate (oxycodone) after that happened to me (albeit with other things in the gout of boiling hot corrosive gritty salts-saturated slop that I got belted in the eye with a while back, thanks to fucking pig cunts tampering with things.)

I was referring to the symbol for aluminium. Pretty sure you can't anodize a human, the process inherently relies on the formation of super-thin surface layers of oxides etc. on metallic surfaces via electrolytic processes and that couldn't be done to flesh.

For examples, look for images of anodized titanium online, or particularly, niobium, niobium anodizes particularly well, and shows a broad coloration range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niobium#Numismatics Used for coinage, part niobium, part Ag, and part of it anodized so that each coin is unique in its coloration pattern. Kinda neat IMO.



NaOH mince pies? who the fuck would want mince pies that taste like burning, corrosive soap? (it has a somewhat soapy taste, a kind of dull-matte colored, dirty off-grey colored taste to me, not that my synaesthetic tendencies towards lab bits and pieces is likely to translate well)
But think of what an old rag would look like, cut from a dirty towel, used for cleaning repeatedly and then given a half arsed washing in used bath water. Thats what its taste is colored akin to, and 'flavour' wise, if such can be used to describe it, biting in sufficient concentrations, but it does have a distinct taste, greasy, saponaceous (the alkaline action lyses body fats and saponifies them, this is why the stuff makes fingers feel soapy after handling caustic alkalis, because they ARE, the soap being formed from body fat exposed to the caustic.