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Re: Tempering metal

To: Donna and Terry Cost <tcost@hot.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Tempering metal
From: Vicki Burrows <gregnvicki@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:54:58 -0700
Might I suggest some medication now...
Greg "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on T.V." Burrows

Donna and Terry Cost wrote:

> Actually, I have been working on an environmentally friendly method of
> tempering metal objects.  If you older folks can remember that far back,
> Coca-Cola came in a glass bottle, and the bottom of the bottle made a good
> magnifying glass to burn ants.  Since Coca-Cola does not usually come in a
> glass bottle any more I have researched liquid containers for the next best
> thing, and have found that Shiner Bock beer bottles make the next best
> magnifying glasses.  I plan to mount about a thousand bottle bottoms in a
> large grid and shine the concentrated sunlight on metal objects, just like
> the new "Strategic Defense Initiative" Laser Cannons.  I have bought a large
> stock tank from Tractor Supply and have been filling it with used motor oil
> from my roadster.  What I plan to do is suspend a metal part above the tank
> of oil, shine the concentrated sunlight from the Shiner Bock grid on it
> until it gets white hot, then quickly dunk the metal in the used oil.  Only
> clean solar energy will be used, oil will be recycled, and I have an excuse
> to drink a thousand or so Shiner beers.  I don't see any downside to this
> plan.
>
> Leisure Suit Terry
>
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