REFLECTOR: Vin de Velocitie

[Rene Dugas]

Glad to see the lable.
I know of five fellows playing cards. One went to the fridge and got  
an unlabled bottle that contained sodium hydroxide thinking it was  
wine. Each took a drag from the bottle. The burn was so intense each  
could not tell the next not to drink. Burned through the esophagus and  
stomach. Three died and two lost their voice boxes(larynx) and are fed  
through tubes. Why the bottle was in the fridge is unknown.

Rene' Dugas
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On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Matt Bucko <mbuc310 at cox.net> wrote:

> I think the volatiles go out right through the plastic bottle. I  
> like the glass bottle idea.  I bet you could even put the wine  
> bottle on the kitchen table and not even smell the hardener. Don't  
> try that with the plastic bottle.
> Matt
>
> Brooke Wolf wrote:
>>
>> A while back I posted a question on this list regarding "hardening  
>> hardeners".  To recap, I was having difficulty with EZ-Poxy  
>> hardener becoming too thick to  work with.  The hardener came with  
>> my kit  from the factory less than 2 years ago.  I kept the  
>> hardener at a temp of about 85 deg in a heating cabinet.  Heating  
>> it up to a temp of about 130 deg helped for a while but it  would  
>> soon return to a viscous state that made it unusable.  Pretty soon  
>> I gave up and retrieved another 1/2 gal jug that had been stored in  
>> my basement for two years at a constant 70-75 deg temp.  This  
>> hardener had crystalized and was barely pourable.  I heated it to  
>> about 130 degrees and it returned to a normal viscosity.
>>
>> While enjoying a glass of wine one evening I began to think about  
>> this issue.  Why did the hardener in my warming cabinet become  
>> unusable while the stuff (from presumably the same batch) stored in  
>> a sealed bottle at a cooler temperature was quite satisfactory.   
>> The only environmental difference between the two was temperature  
>> and exposure to air.  (The stuff in the basement was in a full 1/2  
>> gal container that had never been opened).  Controlling temperature  
>> would be easy, but how could I control exposure to air.  I took  
>> another sip of wine and then it struck me!  Preserve the hardener  
>> as I do wine.
>>
>> Saving an unfinished bottle of wine for a few days oftentimes  
>> resulted in less that optimum flavor ......until we found a simple  
>> vacuum system.  It consists of a rubber type stopper and a hand  
>> vacuum pump.  By putting the leftover wine in a partial vacuum we  
>> found that we could preserve it quite satisfactorily for over a  
>> week.  VOILA... Vin de Velocitie.  I put some of the new hardener  
>> in my ratio pump and put the rest in a wine bottle sealed with the  
>> vacuum stopper.  So far, it looks as if the hardener in the wine  
>> bottle is maintaining its viscosity.
>>
>> Of course, to make this all happen, I had to finish the bottle of  
>> wine (so I could have the bottle).  It was but a small sacrifice to  
>> further the cause of science and experimental aviation!
>>
>> Brooke
>>
>>
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