Anybody ever tried benzoyl peroxide? It is the main ingredient in OTC acne products. I got the idea many years ago from Bert Keebler of tether car fame. The stuff is not easy to come by, but, as luck would have it, I had a pharmacist friend in St. Louis who was in the R&D department of Louis Howe Co. the mfr of Oxy 5 acne treatment. He managed to smuggle me about 4 oz of the pure white powder. Freely soluble in alcohol, but must be stored moistened with water in a tight glass container. If allowed to dry out it becomes shock and temp change sensitive ... BOOM! If you get heavy handed on the fuel% it is a great way to burn holes in pistons. Nasty stuff. Only made a couple runs with it and wound up pouring what I had left into the Mississippi river.
I wonder what organic peroxide would do,,,
The pure stuff is very unstable and has to be kept below 0 degrees…
It is the “kicker” for making the hardener for bondo, fiberglass resin and the like..
I did the refrigeration at a plant in Houston, and actually saw the results from several mishaps…. The stuff provides it’s own oxygen and burns extremely hot, so hot and fast that I’ve seen it burn in plastic and cardboard containers and consume itself, and leave the packaging intact..
If left in an ambient temperature, it self ignites,
So the trailers that haul the stuff have 2 refrigeration units and a backup liquid nitrogen
Spray system in them. And yet I’ve seen trailers that have burnt to the ground.
The worst one was when an employee misread the shipping manifest and loaded 5 pallets of the product in a walk in cooler instead of a freezer. The resulting explosion blew the cooler to pieces and lifted the roof of the warehouse and blew out the walls, luckily no one was killed or injured..
So, I was just wondering if a few drops of the clear liquid fiberglass resin “kicker” would do anything in fuel…
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