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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] lye

From: Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@...>
Date: 2013-03-30

It's either the drug makers or the terrorists that spoil our fun.
What's the next common household chemical they will take away for our own
good, sodium chloride perhaps?

Anyway, I don't see how sodium hydroxide is more dangerous than some of the
other chemicals we work with, like hydrochloric acid.

ST


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Roland Harriston <rolohar@...>wrote:

> Rick Sparber:
>
> Lye crystals have been withdrawn from many markets because they were
> being used to make illegal drugs and you can no longer purchase lye
> crystals at your local grocery store or hardware store.
>
> I used to buy it at my local Safeway market, but it is gone from there,
> and all of the
> other supermarkets in my area (Oro Valley, Arizona)
>
> Roland F. Harriston, P.D.
>


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