[Carry_Okie]

I just looked on ebay and found an ITW Ransburg Aerobell for less than $1500 complete. That and a few grand in sheet-metal work (along with some serious sterilization equipment) and someone could make a dilatant powder that wouldn't cake.

I don't see making the powder to be as much of a challenge as would be containing it so that it didn't kill me.

[genefromjersey]

So,let’s see: Suppose we started with a liquid suspension (used for vaccine research as I recall)and ran it through something essentially the same - although cruder - as the Niro machine. (How would the working parts of a Dyson vacuum cleaner do ?)

(Let’s also assume we did this “off post”,somewhere,and that we subsequently destroyed the processor used.)

Wouldn’t this tend to produce a batch that was of “uneven” quality (such as published reports suggested) ?