Since, miss victoria, you volunteered me, who is paying for the materials and my time calibrating, setting up and working on the metal lathe and industrial drill-press, not you I hope for your money should go on you, and making the PR happy.
But the materials and pay for my time on the lathe, and working with the sandpaper, giving metal hubcaps acidbath patina finishes, electroplating them, acid-etching and anodizing them to give them proper style? huh? who is going to be paying my materials costs for my work. Because I don't do things by halfarsed measures. I'm a fucking kanner's autie and we don't do things half-cocked
Parts? I think I could work with him. And I DO have access freely to the machine shop in the shed. (seriously, its one WELL equipped toolshed. Everything from a drill press, to hand drills to power drills handheld type, router cutters, mitre saws, angle grinders, oscilloscopes, computer terminal with access to the house mainframe from there. facilities for tapping and die-cutting internal and external screw threads on the metalworking capstan lathe, blowtorch, much hotter fueled brazing torch (also serves often enough for melting the contents of my crucibles, or subjecting them to intense heat) inert atmosphere work if required.
Dibs on any secondhand catalytic converters though and any unfired airbag charges that would be replaced I want the sodium azide out of the old ones
(not like Parts would be safe handling azides directly where he could come into contact with them, they are nearly as toxic, and similarly capable of a fast and permanent put-down as cyanides. Oh and they explode. Think of them as exploding cyanides and you've got it about right with azides. Well alkali metal azides like the airbag charges deflagrate rather than detonate, its heavy metal azides and things like copper azide you need be careful as fuck with for explosion reasons. Sodium azide is primarily a toxicity hazard unless seriously mistreated or deliberately set off.)
I REALLY want a catalytic converter from a car or other vehicle though for vapor/gas phase catalytic hydrogenation reductions, or liquid phase ones after some..custom modifications and hacks of my own. And hell even a really fouled up one could be leached with aqua regia etc. to get the platinum/palladium content back out. (shhhhhhh V, no telling Parts that there is platinum (or/ possibly with) palladium in cat converters. I want some for use in catalytic reductions with hydrogen gas under pressure, and/or, support type and quality and surface area dependent, for the purpose of reclaiming the platinum content or/and palladium content for the lab. I don't have very much platinum, and only 1g of palladium (II) chloride which is of catalyst grade and as such earmarked specifically for making palladium based catalysts, such as Pd/C (palladium on activated charcoal) or things like variations on Adams' and Lindlar's catalysts) and other such goodies as everybody in their right mind wouldn't want to be left without if possible not to be, like tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium or tetrakis(triphenylphosphine-platinum/iridium/ruthenium, rhodium, rhenium, osmium, platinum group metal neato triphenylphosphine or triphenylarsine (the arsenic analog of triphenylphosphine of course, is triphenylarsine) complexes for catalytic 'stuff'
