Morning Mike,
>>At 06:26 AM 12/28/2007, you wrote:
Yep, I bet this is from the early "3-nines and a pinch of salt" recipe.
You almost used the term, "Early Method" but not quite.
Many early methods existed long before this. If you break it down into 100
year
periods, you might find "First Methods".
The story mentions him starting to use CS 14 years ago. There wasn't
any other method used back then, was there?
Actually, I never read the term, "pinch of Salt" anywhere other than on
this list.
The term itself upsets me, because it is not an accepted unit of measure or
anything else.
I think it was "stupid water" and a "stupid man" that caused Argyria, not
any specific recipe at all.
Using the proper saline solution and a drop or two of that, is a FAR CRY
from using a pinch of salt, or anything else.
I know cooks use a "pinch" when they could be specific. But I rate cooks
at the bottom of the list.
"The Cooks have killed more people than all the wars of the world put together"
And they are still at it ......... every day.
No one uses a pinch of gunpowder, a pinch of mercury fulminate, or many
other things.
I have loaded ammunition for near 50 years. Never used a pinch of anything.
I make some of the best "Hand loaded Ammunition" in the world, good enough
for any sniper, or anyone else.
I have disassembled factory ammunition, and weighed every component. What I
make is many times more precision. Often my loaded rounds vary by no more
than .1 of a grain. That includes propellant, bullet, brass, and primers.
Yes, I have even weighed the primers.
You can blindfold me, outside my shop. I can go inside and make precision
ammunition. I have a skilled and trained eye, often measuring things
within 3 to 4 thousandths of an inch, and sometimes within .001 by eye.
Of course I have the best scales and calipers, and I don't use any "Pinch".
When I joined back in '97 some people here were already encouraging the
no-salt, distilled water only method, while many vendors and other silver
advocates persisted in recommending salt.
I know many people that still use salt today, but use it right.
I even use it when I feel the urge. No one I know, uses a PINCH.
Many of these people are intelligent technical people. They don't guess at
anything.
By the time some people are sick enough to drink large volumes of CS, they
are already in serious trouble, walking on thin ice.
They have made so many mistakes in life that one more does not matter.
Something I have noticed, with no current regulation, and the simplest near
nothing generator, the current is relatively uniform and stable for a
period of time.
When the current increases one or two ma, I know something is changing, and
the stopping point is close.
I did read that 5 ppm to 10 ppm has not caused any Argyria. Likely my CS
is never over 10 ppm. It has worked for everything I wanted it to do so I
have never been concerned with ppm, and don't concern my self with
measurement or any instrumentation other than a current meter. I do reject
water by the simplest method imaginable.
My CS batch, process, and log book has taught me as much as I want to know.
Likewise, my plants teach me more than all the books and scientists in the
world.
Of course technical knowledge does not hurt, but the plants take up where
every thing else leaves off.
Just like health, disease, CS, Ammunition, and plants, .......... one thing
does not cure all ailments and one thing did not cause them.
Combinations of bad habits and errors, ......... are the cause of all
problems in the
world today.
So, anytime anyone says, ....... ONE THING, ......... I will usually have
something to say. Certainly this applies to the USE of a PINCH, which
should be banned from the dictionary, and the vocabulary of intelligent people.
It has no place in the world today.
Wayne
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