Well, I'll try to write it down a bit more obvious/clear and see where we end then:
You take 0.3 mm thick aluminium foil, cut it into pieces of x? cm by x? cm with a papercutter.
The ratios of the involved chemicals are as follows:
1L of methanol per every 100g MDP2P (ketone),
1g Hg(whatever salt) per Liter solvent (MeOH in this case),
1g nitromethane per 1g Al,
1.2g ketone per 1g Aluminium foil.
Amalgamate the aluminium foil with the Hg salt,
slowly drip in all of the ketone over three hours (drip in the MDP2P with heating to maintain reflux) [PERHAPS HE MEANT TO WRITE IT THIS WAY??] , after total 12hrs workup as per reynolds nitro method (what the fuck he means with that? MM, Baal, Osmium, WHUT?).
less solvent, less flask size, greater yeilds.
So, let's see where that leads to for example with 120 gram ketone (MDP2P):
120 gram ketone
100 gram Alu foil
100 gram Nitromethane
1200 ml Methanol
1.2 gram Hg salt
Doesn't sound so crazy anymore if seen by the light of reasonable doubt, ain't it?
What I do not like however, if methods are proposed for the sheer purpose of convincing other members to try something out which is not performed by the writer, but what he would like to see if it works, so the risks and costs are carried by someone else, and the proposer just hopes he gets an enthousiastic answer when one of the next posters confirms that the method really works.
This is the most hidious way of proposing a method: as if it's already done with good results.
I don't know if this goes for the thread writer above, but he can at least give some more details to convince the occassional reader of this thread of his good intentions.
And try in the future to write a bit more clearer and coherent. LT/
WISDOMwillWIN