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To: Arkansas Tider

“Yep also known as methyl alcohol, wood alcohol and wood naphtha. Kill ya dead every time!”

Not if you strain it through a slice of bread first. (Well, at least that’s what I heard.)


28 posted on 01/26/2016 12:52:38 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: 21twelve

Nope. It wil still kill you and you’ve wasted a slice of bread.

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29 posted on 01/26/2016 12:54:03 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: 21twelve
Not if you strain it through a slice of bread first. (Well, at least that’s what I heard.)

That was the story (obviously wrong) some Navy submariners were told during WWII. Quite a few died from draining the Methyl Alcohol from the torpedoes and straining it through bread.

36 posted on 01/26/2016 2:14:18 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: 21twelve

Actually that’s a holdover from prohibition, straining shoe polish or other products containing ethanol solvent, through loaf-bread. Don’t count on that technique to work in removing any methanol blended in.


38 posted on 01/26/2016 2:55:33 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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