Thanks for sharing this anecdote. Flammable solvents really are no fun. Things get
dangerously out of control in one second.
(A lab safety consultant jokingly warned us of using dry powder extinguishers though. The mess they produce
is a bitch to clean
)
I actually have a bit more to add
When the door first slammed to the bottom of it's hinges and a fireball came out, the pan had a small blue alcohol flame on the liquid surface at the time and I actually stood there looking at it for 2-3 seconds thinking about what to do. [ "I put so much work into that, I gotta save it, what if I just carry it outside, the methanol will burn down, but then as the level lowers it'll also burn the extract residue. " "I can take it outside and cover it with something, smothering it." ] but by this time oxygen had returned to the area and I knew how hard it is to carry that pan without it spilling over, let alone with a growing flame on it. I knew my ideas of saving it were over as I was seeing the flames stating to lick high, and there was an oak cupboard not far above (my parents would have loved to see that).
So now I'm thinking of the best way to put it out, "pour it down the drain, lol, surface area", "pour water on it, duh, that'll just slosh it out of the pan and all over spreading it, while increasing it's surface area" Thinking about this one here typing; enough water would have diluted it and been easier to clean up but all I had was a 'kitchen sink hose', with far too low of a flow rate and was worried about water around an oven element, electricity, ect. (still on at this point; the controls were on the other side of the flame.). Awww shit, better get the extinguisher, this is going to make one hell of a mess, but it'll work, without question.
I picked up the powdered pan; took it outside, washed my work out of it with the hose. Spent the rest of the day cleaning. That stuff gets in every nook and cranny, and doesn't sweep up nicely like normal house dust or dirt/sand from outside, oh no. It's this super fine stuff that doesn't have sticky, adhesive proterties, or even static-electric properties, but it does not want to be removed from wherever it is that it currently sits.
It's a toss up to weigh a burning solvent situation, you think about what you can do and actually only use the extinguisher as a last resort.
It's a bitch. Yet, my parents came home the next day and were none the wiser. I was shitting bricks figuring they'd notice something, a burn mark I didn't see, a tiny bit of this weird powder here, but nope, all was well, I think we even used the oven that night.
Your comment really caught me off guard; "Since when do you evaporate a solution of something in a smoking device?" [as in putting DMT laden naphtha right into the screen of a machine]
But yeah I could see a measured chemical in solution in a freebase pipe or my version; test tube. Heat, evaporate aliquot of liquid; vaporize chemical. Cool man, I may end up using that idea sometime.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
. I only went too far once and I had psychosis for a couple days. I learned my lesson there. Never happen again. I avoid binging with stimulants because after approx. 2 days you're basically wasting the *smeagol voice* 'precious' drug anyway. How? As some of you know, your brain literally becomes exhausted of essential neurotransmitters so you get the same stimulation (take into acct. tolerance and habituation) but not the same euphoria. Norepinephrine and dopamine releasing agents can drain you, in the same manner MDMA drains your serotonin stores (as well as inhibits the re-uptake @ the synaptic cleft). Daily use of MDMA causes the drop off in euphoria in a dramatic fashion each day not to mention it's extremely neurotoxic and you will definitely get permanent damage from that type of abuse at some point if continued most likely manifesting itself as an anxiety disorder. To combat becoming famished when using stimulants, which is inevitable, but one can slow it down so I force myself to eat and sleep periodically after a 2 day go, before I start again I make sure I'm recovered, say, on average 80%. I have never done stimulants 3 days in a row for this reason. The length of my partying with coke is usually 24-40 hours on average and meth is ~48 hours. Meth much worse for insomnia due to long half life especially relative to coke's short one so it's harder to binge on white for me plus I don't really have the desire to. Binging on meth is OK if you have experience and/or wisdom. Fuck that hallucinating shit! Shadow people are coming watch out! You know they ain't there but they still can scare ya occasionally!
. A good thing is RC's can look like coke or meth anyway (more like meth, that white crystalline powder most RCs are like I presume). So back to which scale,
