On 08/04/2023 03:02, roxanna Mason wrote:
"but mostly because [drug] users litter the empty [nitrous] cylinders"
I found 4 such MT cylinders in a parking lot near me, I collected them to see if there were any usable components like valves or vessels.
Nothing too impressive but too bad they're not refillable. DOT regs probably make it too expensive to certify for reuse.
Ken
On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 6:18 PM Peter Fairbrother <peter@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 08/04/2023 00:21, BrianK ABQ wrote:
> Confusing terminology indeed.
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> I do always like wild chem combos: like a lithium/thionyl chloride
> battery. Yes some sourcing issues, though I did see a bottle of
thionyl
> Cl sell on eBay a few years back. It's a watched precursor in the
> Chemical Weapons Convention as it can be used in nerve gas
production.
You can buy thionyl chloride batteries, in the UK at least, but they
are
the wrong type size and construction for rocketry use.
And nitrous is just about to be banned in the UK, in theory as a drug,
but mostly because users litter the empty cylinders.
Peter F
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> Perhaps somewhat confusingly, the Mk 46 battery was the main
propulsion
> primary battery used in the Mk 37 torpedo (and not in the Mk 46
> torpedo,
> which runs on Otto II fuel). Auxiliary power was supplied by
a smaller
> but similar but rechargeable Mk 53 battery.
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