We go through 4-6 feet per day!That is a lot of cord !!
No. Lye will not serve to do the same job. It is sodium hydroxide which contains oxygen but the oxygen is busy doing its thing with the sodium and won't be released to aid the burning of the match.Very good advice and I gather Lye will also do the same job . The Japonees at one international at Bisley left their match out on the range & it was still going fine despite the rain I was impressed by that.
Rudyard
Was thinking a shanty boat might be fun.Good on you Jay. And Lawrence I admire your patience its clearly a" Lets be as negative as we can "Govt bumph when QLD was so free .
" Where the creeks run dry ,"or ten foot high & its either drought or plenty " You will have to build a punt.
Cheers Rudyard
SALT PETER, we all remember that stuff that made the powdered scrambled eggs green , at breakfast back in 1961, US, ARMY! and yes it was a real stump remover, LOL!Jay:
The only thing that is water soluble in the black powder you are using is the potassium nitrate. You are essencially boiling it out of the powder into the water/vinegar solution.
As black powder is expensive, I'll ask the question, can't you get pure potassium nitrate to use instead of using the black powder?
Here in the USA, there are several ways of buying it. It can be purchased from chemical companies or better yet, on a small scale like your using, it can be found in most hardware or gardening supply stores. (It can sometimes also be found in food stores that specialize in old time foods. When used in food, it is called salt peter here in the USA).
It is what makes the "stump remover" we can buy, dissolve the wood in tree stumps after the tree is cut down.
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A bottle of this Stump Remover costs about $7 USD which is a lot cheaper than using up 1/2 or 3/4 of a pound of real black powder.
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