A.K.A : Dan The Crazed Aussie
July 1st, 2002, 05:39 AM
G'day im Dan, anywas i posted this on the xinventions forum, but i got told from flappawok that it would be better to post here, heaps a smart people here. Anyways my post reads like this...
"Well, today lots of problems arose in my mind due to my ap not working
Plz bear with me it might take me a while to explain everything.
I made ap (using 6% h202) 75ml of h202, 50ml acetone and 15ml of hydrochloric acid (something between 30-40%, standard pool acid)
Abiding all safety precautions and everything, keeping in icebath and added acid slowly. Then i left it in the fridge for 3 days to nitrate, then filtered and washed with 600ml of water and with 4-5 tablespoons of bicarb soda in it to nuetrilize.
Then i let this dry for like 5 days. It had a texture that could be explained kinda of like a large white salty potatoe chip (let me xplain ). U could break off a piece, and the rest would stay kinda like one big chip.
I CAREFULLY put this in a plastic containter, and with a wouldnt dowel i proceeded to SLOWLY AND BLOODY CAREFULLY, smeared it around, making the course large thin chunks into a sort of powder, tho i didnt exactly crush it to a powder, more like little balls.
This is where i noticed a problem. The filter paper i kept from filtering had ap on it, so when that was dry i lit it and watched from a distance, i was expecting lots of big flames, but only occasionly i heard like a sucking of oxygen sound, and sometimes a little poof of fire and smoke would arise, but from what ive read all of the ap should of light up straight away. It didnt.
I then proceeded to put a small amount on a piece of wood and put a candle near it so the flames would flicker and stay on it. And i did this like 3 times, and in only 1 of the 3 tries it kinda made a small flame deflagrating s small amount of the ap. It also made that funny little sucking sound of air?
So, then i got a small piece and hit it with a hammer shielding my body and had safety glasses on, the weird thing is that it went bang with a fairly loud report.
So i concluded that it should be used today. Therefore i put the ap into a "yowie power" container (little round container found in a lolly, housing a toy of some kind) and filling the bottom end with tissues , and with a hole in the top for a sparkler. The sparkler was dug right to the bottom, and the hole for the fuse had about a 1mm area around the sparkler so air could get in so the sparkler wouldnt suffocate.
I light it and waited... waited...WAITED!!!!! But nothin. We waited, and leaving it there for about 10 mins, we proceeded to poke it with a stick (dunno why me mate suggested to :p )
Now does anyone know why my batch of ap didn't work??? I havn't an idea, and im very sorry for making it so damn long, but i thought i would include nearly every intricate detail so maybe someone out there could help in pin pointing my critical error, which in turn made my ap crap .
Thank you,
Dan. "
All help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S.: As all of u have probably concluded that yes, i am reasonably new to this (only been researching for like 5 months now), and im sorry if the posts sounds Ke\/\/lish. But plz help me
Thank u,
Dan
"Well, today lots of problems arose in my mind due to my ap not working
Plz bear with me it might take me a while to explain everything.
I made ap (using 6% h202) 75ml of h202, 50ml acetone and 15ml of hydrochloric acid (something between 30-40%, standard pool acid)
Abiding all safety precautions and everything, keeping in icebath and added acid slowly. Then i left it in the fridge for 3 days to nitrate, then filtered and washed with 600ml of water and with 4-5 tablespoons of bicarb soda in it to nuetrilize.
Then i let this dry for like 5 days. It had a texture that could be explained kinda of like a large white salty potatoe chip (let me xplain ). U could break off a piece, and the rest would stay kinda like one big chip.
I CAREFULLY put this in a plastic containter, and with a wouldnt dowel i proceeded to SLOWLY AND BLOODY CAREFULLY, smeared it around, making the course large thin chunks into a sort of powder, tho i didnt exactly crush it to a powder, more like little balls.
This is where i noticed a problem. The filter paper i kept from filtering had ap on it, so when that was dry i lit it and watched from a distance, i was expecting lots of big flames, but only occasionly i heard like a sucking of oxygen sound, and sometimes a little poof of fire and smoke would arise, but from what ive read all of the ap should of light up straight away. It didnt.
I then proceeded to put a small amount on a piece of wood and put a candle near it so the flames would flicker and stay on it. And i did this like 3 times, and in only 1 of the 3 tries it kinda made a small flame deflagrating s small amount of the ap. It also made that funny little sucking sound of air?
So, then i got a small piece and hit it with a hammer shielding my body and had safety glasses on, the weird thing is that it went bang with a fairly loud report.
So i concluded that it should be used today. Therefore i put the ap into a "yowie power" container (little round container found in a lolly, housing a toy of some kind) and filling the bottom end with tissues , and with a hole in the top for a sparkler. The sparkler was dug right to the bottom, and the hole for the fuse had about a 1mm area around the sparkler so air could get in so the sparkler wouldnt suffocate.
I light it and waited... waited...WAITED!!!!! But nothin. We waited, and leaving it there for about 10 mins, we proceeded to poke it with a stick (dunno why me mate suggested to :p )
Now does anyone know why my batch of ap didn't work??? I havn't an idea, and im very sorry for making it so damn long, but i thought i would include nearly every intricate detail so maybe someone out there could help in pin pointing my critical error, which in turn made my ap crap .
Thank you,
Dan. "
All help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S.: As all of u have probably concluded that yes, i am reasonably new to this (only been researching for like 5 months now), and im sorry if the posts sounds Ke\/\/lish. But plz help me
Thank u,
Dan