Lime juice versus alum.

Jens Nordlunde · 8th January 2005, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Battara

No, Jens, I never used saltpeter. What I have done is heat both solution and blade. This seems to speed up the process a little and still makes it quite controllable.

Did I say you did - then I am sorry - I thought it was Spunjer

On SFI Lodewijk warns about salpetre, that it is very fast working.

Regards

Jens

ariel · 9th January 2005, 05:21 AM

There was an urban legend in the military that in the middle of a battle somebody emptied the tea urn on the cannon to cool it; the barrel bent down.....

9th January 2005, 05:21 AM	#2
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	There was an urban legend in the military that in the middle of a battle somebody emptied the tea urn on the cannon to cool it; the barrel bent down.....