Jade knows too well that Geez is really a trim carpenter by trade and this law business stuff is just a hobby. He admits he isn't perfect, but in his training as a trim carpenter he learned that the difference between a high dollar carpenter and any union journeyman is that the high dollar man knows how to hide his mistakes. Having adopted that as something of a philosohphy of life on Thursday and alternate weekends, he admits he is not perfect, but admits to concealing the evidence to the contrary. It is hidden, of course. In plain sight.
I would add to Jade's list a few additional observation and geezarial comments, "thou shall not unless you want to look like a complete fool" observations, and bits of wisdom learned honestly (the hard way) by bad experience:
a) Gas needs to be dry. If it has moisture in it, it needs an inline drier. Or you need to learn how to make dry gas.
b) The air that goes in the container to refill it has moisture in it. How much moisture it has CAN make a difference in results.
c) The better mousetrap, and gassing aparatus, has been invented and probably patented. Unless you actually know something about chemistry, leave designing the equipment to someone who knows enough about it to keep from spraying you with acid when you design does not work.
d) More is not better.
e) Enough is enough.
f) There is a "too much."
g) just because that pump sprayer held the last time you tossed aluminum foil in it does not mean it will this time.
h) Yes, that IS why they recommend a check valve of some sort. I lost most all of a cook that way too one time. Yes, I slapped myself on the head and said "You idiot!" when I did it. Yes, I was talking to myself.
j) Being able to stay in the room with a gassing rig without proper ventilation is NOT a macho thing at all.
k) It really is that simple if everything is dry.
l) Yes, you need to rinse your filters in alcohol for the meth that is trapped in the filter itself. Yes, this is another reason to titrate.
m) Yes, it certainly is light and fluffy, kind of like styrofoam, and if you get the air from the fan just it it
just sort of ... oh no, not another gram of it!
n) Do, by all means, wash your hands before you lift the lid and yank it out. You seldom forget to do this more than once. You never forget to do it again if you have foprgotten to wash your hands before handling it after having just handles some NaOH...acid is not as bad, but that skin is really, really sensitive.
o) Yes, if everything else fails, you can add water, check the pH and salvage part of the mess after all. Shake it all up well, separate the water out, evaporate, flash with acetone.
p) It is much easier to do if you have seen someone do it than it is to do it based on how it is described here. This is because it is really that simple, as long a you don't breathe it. It just is hard to describe it in such a way that you don't have twenty three more questions.
q) There will never be an answer to the question of whether 'tis best to gas or titrate.
r) I don't care if you do it a different way. Its my dope, and I will fuck it up my own way. You want to show me "new, improved, and better" bring your own dope to show me how.
s) No good deed goes unpunished, including a successful gassing effort. There will be rust, and you had better believe it.
t) yes, it always does that if you wear a good shirt. You should see how bad it gets if you don't have a bucket of water handy and have a shower you can get into right away.
u) I always wear disposable rubber gloves when gassing. It is better than the beating your hands take around the gas.
v) Yes, IPA will store HCl gas for future use. No, I haven't done it either.
w) I prefer the damp rid with HCl in the alcohol bottle, myself, but I also think it helps to mix some filter sand with the damp rid so it doesn't become such a solid chunk of unbreakable stone. Filter sand. The CLEAN stuff. For pool filters. NO, not masonry sand.
w) Yes, I did the Damp Rid / HCl method in a pump sprayer and got to throw that sprayer away, too.
v) Never keep more than one pump sprayer laying around the garage.
w) Policemen always look around garages when they have a chance and notice how many pump sprayers you have, how much 1/4" vinyl tubing is around, how many bottle caps have a hole in them and black tape on them, and how rusted the garage door hardware and your tools are.
x) yes, that rust on the alternator in your car is in fact one of the things we were telling you about.
y) Never wear your gassing clothes to your preliminary hearing.
z) Never ask Geez for help on how to gas. He doesn't know. He has made all of the above mistakes often enough to realize he needs to stick with the other approach.
