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Chuck · 2013-06-18, 00:20

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Originally Posted by ewmayer

In Florida, Nik Wallenda readies for Grand Canyon high-wire act

"I'll take 'U.S. Geography' for $1000, Alex".

I guess if you lived in Florida you would do your training there.

Batalov · 2013-06-18, 00:57

Florida's highest point is the impressive 345 ft.

(For the peakbaggers, it is famous. It is the lowest of all 50. It's rank is ... wait for it... 51, because it is beat by the highest point of DC!)

I am at a higher point right now - and I am less than quarter-mile from the ocean beach!

cheesehead · 2013-06-18, 01:07

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Originally Posted by ewmayer

In Florida, Nik Wallenda readies for Grand Canyon high-wire act

Speaking of misleading headlines: My first question was, "Where is the Grand Canyon only a quarter-mile wide?" Then I re-read

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Originally Posted by reuters.com

... nothing but the Little Colorado River 1,500 feet below.

Descriptions of the “LCR” or “Little C”, a major tributary of the Colorado River:

http://grandcanyonhistory.clas.asu.e...onfluence.html
http://www.americansouthwest.net/ari...ver/index.html
http://www.navajonationparks.org/htm/littlecolorado.htm

ewmayer · 2013-06-20, 22:57

Bending the thread-title-implied topical rules a little ... so I need some kind of high-G-force liquid strainer for a kitchen booze experiment I'm doing - sure, I could just say "screw it" and drink the cloudy sediment layer at bottom of the container, but the liquid is quite precious and I'd like to recover as much clear liquid as I can. So one's first thought turns to "centrifuge". I'm actually thinking of some kind of kitchen centrifuge - not sure there is such a thing but surely I'm far from the first person in history to have such a need in a domestic (rather than medical-lab) context. Go to ebay, type in "centrifuge" (very tricky, I know), obviously bunch of medical-lab stuff comes up. But some of the used desktop models are actually quite cheap, it would just mean doing perhaps an ounce or two (whatever all glass tubes filled amounts to) at a time - I have perhaps 6 ounces of goop-needing-separation per batch of sekrit booze, not too bad.

But one of the 4 sale ones cracked me up - check out the "return condition stipulation" under the title of this one.

That would be quite a neat trick there. :)

chalsall · 2013-06-20, 23:15

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Originally Posted by ewmayer

... so I need some kind of high-G-force liquid strainer for a kitchen booze experiment I'm doing...

Two immediate thoughts...

If you're actually constrained to the kitchen, leverage on a "lettuce dryer". Or maybe the washing machine's "spin cycle".

If you have a "man cave", jack up a vehicle's drive wheels, and work from there.

Balance is important, of course....

Batalov · 2013-06-20, 23:17

Dude, don't take that one. You are too young to die. (Tony S is enough for this week.) You don't know what kind of bacterial cells they were spinning there. Could have been TB or antrax, for all you know.

EDIT: oh wait. This one had blood in it (with some viruses here and there). It's ok, - it's been cleaned now. And tested. ;-)

And then again, what do we know... Maybe your sikrit drink contains blood anyway... ...

And making up for off-topic: "Police: Paraplegic castrated at Philly facility"

ewmayer · 2013-06-20, 23:53

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Originally Posted by chalsall

Two immediate thoughts...

If you're actually constrained to the kitchen, leverage on a "lettuce dryer". Or maybe the washing machine's "spin cycle".

Too big/coarse ... I have fine sediment in small (< 200 ml) batches needing separation.

Quote:

Balance is important, of course....

At least at the start of "batch quality testing". Towards the end, we make no assurances. ;)

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Originally Posted by Batalov

Dude, don't take that one. You are too young to die. (Tony S is enough for this week.) You don't know what kind of bacterial cells they were spinning there. Could have been TB or antrax, for all you know.

Extra flavor is welcome - seriously, though, if I got a used one I'd probably sterilize it with a heat gun (taking care to not melt any of the plastic/rubber/electrical parts) before using it. (Or would a thorough licking work by way of cleaning? LOL...)

Quote:

And making up for off-topic: "Police: Paraplegic castrated at Philly facility"

From the article:

Walker says Bonilla was apparently trying to settle that dispute. The victim, Bonilla and the woman were all apparently friends.

That begs so many "do tell" questions I don't even know where to begin. Darwin awards candidate or file under "Fabulous Tales of Drinking Bets Gone Wrong"?

"And in our next installment of 'Paraplegic Parab~~all~~les..."

Uncwilly · 2013-06-21, 00:20

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Originally Posted by ewmayer

Too big/coarse ... I have fine sediment in small (< 200 ml) batches needing separation.

Get a big (50-200 mL) syringe with a 0.45 μm filter. Faster and cheaper than a 'fuge.

ewmayer · 2013-06-21, 00:51

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Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Get a big (50-200 mL) syringe with a 0.45 μm filter. Faster and cheaper than a 'fuge.

Interesting ... How much sediment could that take before clogging?

sdbardwick · 2013-06-21, 01:13

I'd run it through an unbleached paper coffee filter before using a finer filter.
Also, maybe something like this would be useful?

Uncwilly · 2013-06-21, 01:26

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Originally Posted by ewmayer

Interesting ... How much sediment could that take before clogging?

Depends on the diameter, also you would not have to go all the way down to 0.45. It has be along time since I tried them. If you are really heavy in sediment those little filters might not work. If you have vacuum (or pressure), something like this would have the capacity http://www.whatman.com/PolycapGW.aspx
Sample lose is greater in these though.

I used to use these (thousands of them over the years) (the RTU is new) http://www.whatman.com/934AHRTU.aspx (We filtered 25mL of blended raw sewage through them and other worse things). These provide the standard do differentiate between suspended and dissolved solids.

2013-06-18, 00:57	#57
Batalov "Serge" Mar 2008 Phi(4,2^7658614+1)/2 22405₈ Posts	Florida's highest point is the impressive 345 ft. (For the peakbaggers, it is famous. It is the lowest of all 50. It's rank is ... wait for it... 51, because it is beat by the highest point of DC!) I am at a higher point right now - and I am less than quarter-mile from the ocean beach! Last fiddled with by Batalov on 2013-06-18 at 01:01

2013-06-20, 23:17	#61
Batalov "Serge" Mar 2008 Phi(4,2^7658614+1)/2 3⁶·13 Posts	Dude, don't take that one. You are too young to die. (Tony S is enough for this week.) You don't know what kind of bacterial cells they were spinning there. Could have been TB or antrax, for all you know. EDIT: oh wait. This one had blood in it (with some viruses here and there). It's ok, - it's been cleaned now. And tested. ;-) And then again, what do we know... Maybe your sikrit drink contains blood anyway... ... And making up for off-topic: "Police: Paraplegic castrated at Philly facility" Last fiddled with by Batalov on 2013-06-20 at 23:39

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ewmayer ∂²ω=0 Sep 2002 República de California 103·113 Posts	Bending the thread-title-implied topical rules a little ... so I need some kind of high-G-force liquid strainer for a kitchen booze experiment I'm doing - sure, I could just say "screw it" and drink the cloudy sediment layer at bottom of the container, but the liquid is quite precious and I'd like to recover as much clear liquid as I can. So one's first thought turns to "centrifuge". I'm actually thinking of some kind of kitchen centrifuge - not sure there is such a thing but surely I'm far from the first person in history to have such a need in a domestic (rather than medical-lab) context. Go to ebay, type in "centrifuge" (very tricky, I know), obviously bunch of medical-lab stuff comes up. But some of the used desktop models are actually quite cheap, it would just mean doing perhaps an ounce or two (whatever all glass tubes filled amounts to) at a time - I have perhaps 6 ounces of goop-needing-separation per batch of sekrit booze, not too bad. But one of the 4 sale ones cracked me up - check out the "return condition stipulation" under the title of this one. That would be quite a neat trick there. :)

2013-06-21, 01:13	#65
sdbardwick Aug 2002 North San Diego County 5×137 Posts	I'd run it through an unbleached paper coffee filter before using a finer filter. Also, maybe something like this would be useful?