Yes the .1% lye solution is OK in #1 pop bottle plastic, though lye in a concentrated form supposedly eats through this plastic.
So do rats, I just found out tonight. I went to pick up some of my stuff from a storage room of a university where I taught a class a couple of weeks ago, and the 'stuff' happened to be a few #1 plastic bottles (thinner than pop bottles, these were Crisco oil bottles) of fuel and "reprocess tests" that students had made. WHich I;d stored in a cardboard box in a nice dark corner for a couple of weeks. "I don't remember that box looking so haggard" I thought. We lifted the box, and found beneath it a rat nest made out of chewed up cardboard, and a whole lot of biodiesel pooling on the floor. Inside the box was a completely empty sample bottle, chewed to shreds. It took a little thinking to figure out if it was chemical or biological attack= it almost looked like biodiesel had reacted with the wrong plastic or something, but no, there was the lid in shreds with fang marks on it. I wonder if the rat survived- it was some viciously alkaline stuff- a reprocess test (very soapy, and I have heard that rats like to eat hard soap) mark --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Dan Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Here is another question for the people who know their > plastics: Can I store my .1% lye solution in a > regular pop/bottled water bottle? Or does it need to > be in #2 plastic as well? Thanks, > > Dan > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo > http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z_CBYA/vB5FAA/AG3JAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
