Says mercury compounds not elemental mercuryHope no one here has a mercury thermometer, else it’s off to prison with you.
So the dozen or so bottles of 95% sulphuric (one shot) that I’ve got at work are ok? I don’t have a licence!No, it's one licence to put you on the books.
However, it doesn't apply if you use EPP chemicals for business use (it's home use only because you might be a dangerous subversive rather than someone being taxed).
Like conc nitric for etching jewellery, for example...
I did a lot of natural dyeing. Oxalic acid's a basic.
Hydrogen peroxide is used to clean the black mould of the window surrounds...it's also used as a medicinal steriliser.....and it's an ingredient in of all things teeth whitening compounds.
Going through that list it's quite surprising just how many things I have to get rid of....with no suitable alternatives.
So, is it worth the hassle of donating £39.50 to have a licence ? or is it a way of seeing who has what ?
The car battery thing truly has be stumped though.
so if hexamine is illegal now: what are you supposed to burn in a hexi stove now?!How often do people travel internationally with a hexi-stove in their luggage?
Fuel tablets. Non hexamine.so if hexamine is illegal now: what are you supposed to burn in a hexi stove now?!
You mean like Jimi Hendrix posters on the walls.I can’t imagine a court in the land would convict someone of owning a hexi stove which a child could’ve walked into a camping shop and bought. Unless there was plenty of other material evidence to show it was going to be used for nefarious reasons.
I think you could be onto something.Maybe it only refers to pure chemicals, not when mixed as an ingredient, such as a fuel tablet?
That says at any concentration. In a tablet it’s an ingredient.Unfortunately that's not the case.
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Sadly, not a spoof. A demonstration of classic governmental-style joined up thinking perhaps.Are we sure this isn't a spoof ? because the internet is full of hexi tablets for sale.
Even the 'solid fuel' tablets are often later described as hexamine.
Sadly, not a spoof. A demonstration of classic governmental-style joined up thinking perhaps.
There's more to hexy than it being an RDX precursor (or one step removed from being a precursor). It can create some seriously/dangerously unstable stuff.
And it honks when it burns and soots up your pans, which are compelling reasons not to use it
Do the army still use hexamine?Like many here I suspect that I'm not alone in having a couple of those wee fold down hexi stoves, just in case.
They're cheap, they're easily obtainable (my last one literally cost a pound from a pound store) and they come with the hexi blocks tidily packed inside.
I cannot say they are a favoured way to cook, but they're reliable for a brew up regardless of the weather and the wee stove though it seems flimsy actually works as a stable platform.
There must be literally hundreds of thousands of them in the UK.....and it looks like we're all now criminals because we don't have licences.
This is just stupid.
The stoves have been a stalwart of the British army for generations.
Somewhere in Holland, there's a clay field where my wee bother and his battalion were on exercise. He's a creative blighter my wee bother, and he was told to dig a trench and bed down.
So, he duly dug a trench, and fitted it out, etc., and then to their folly his officers let him get bored.
My bored wee bother took his pocket knife and carved the wall of that clay trench into a stone fireplace and set his hexi burner in it. He kept going and carved the rest of the trench walls into what resembled a castle wall, with gargoyles, etc., The bored-er he became the more creatively he carved.
They were there for nearly three weeks, he did a lot of carving, clay hardens when heated well.
Perhaps sometime in the future some archaeologist is going to scratch their head wondering what on earth a 'devotional hearth' is doing in the middle of a clay field in Holland and it's only fixed because he burned that hexi stove to heat the whole thing up.
It won't have properly ceramicised, but it'll have hardened enough to become changed just enough to bind. He said it was rock solid when they did a hasty back fill and left.
Hexi burners are often the first stove youngsters are given to brew up on. They're simple, they work, they're disposable.....and now it seems they're pretty much illegal because there's no way that everyone who has them will apply retrospectively for a £39.50 licence.
If Tantalus is right, the same applies to every one of us who has a car battery too.......