Mine was a 20 X 20 Utility building with windows & Kerosene Heater. It was 
nearly a hundred feet from the house. That was when you could buy all the 
Calcium Carbide you wanted at the hardware store. It was even cheap! Sodium 
Nitrate was readily available at the grocery store and sulfur came in big 
jars and boxes at the drug store. The clerk didn't even blink when you told 
them you wanted to mix your own gunpowder. Just a friendly reminder to "Be 
careful"...

The list does seem to have been on Valium for a while...
John Ferrell  W8CCW

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
-Edward R. Murrow
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wouter van Ooijen" <wouter@voti.nl>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Moderation and list policy


>> My mother used to complain about the smoke from the basement filtering
>> through into the house on occasion.
>
> At a certain moment my parents decided to buy me a small caravan which
> they put in the garden, so I could do my experiments in there. A caravan
> is practical, you can stick you head out of the window (to avoid the
> fumes) while still manipulating the stuff inside. But in retrospect I
> think a mouth-operated pipette was not the right tool to measure liquid
> Br2.
>
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