In a message dated 11/20/04 4:06:05 PM, d.carpenter7@verizon.net writes:
> And just where exactly does one get liquid nitrogen? Home Depot? Lowe's?
> Wallgreen?
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Gee, you mean they don't carry it in Pennsylvania either. Thought it was
the tree-huggers at work for us Californians. I was going to suggest maybe
that place that Bobbie works has it--you know, the one I can't remember the
name
of but they sell all kinds of sewing and craft stuff.
BTW, this is a true story. We really did this a few years back. At that
time, we had access to a physics lab and simply took a thermos in to work to
get the liquid nitrogen. I held it, boxed and securely wrapped, all the way
home without incident, and we got the pin out just as described. Since there
was almost nothing left in the thermos, we boxed it and set it in the back
floor. Somehow, it moved around enough to break the thermos liner and the
effect
was instant frost all over the floor of the car. HMMM Maybe that's why you
have a hard time buying it. Kind of scary after I saw what a mess it made
and realized that I had been holding that box all the way home. As someone
said, it was a fun experiment and easily took care of an "at wit's end" problem
that we had been working on for several days.
So o o , If you do find it, please take care in transporting the stuff.
We were probably very lucky to end up with no more than cold feet.
Annice & Bob
1960 Bugeye (Mk. IV in disguise) "The Sprite"
1966 Sprite Mk. III (Still in Boxes) "Trevor"
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