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Dry Ice 101: The Basics
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skou said:
i dunno who that guy is, i got that pic off teh internet
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Okay, I see a lot of posts about "where can I find this container?"
You have to make it by hand. Get a copper plate and copper tubing, and braze them together, then lap the copper plate.
You have to make it by hand. Get a copper plate and copper tubing, and braze them together, then lap the copper plate.
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A peace of lexan or Plexiglas cut to outer size tubing but smaller than the pipe cap will make good hold down clamp.
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WHAT?! Create a 14" tall, 1/4" thick, and 3 1/2" wide copper container by hand?! That pretty much rules it out for a lot of people. Wow...this would've been SO COOL if we could just buy it online or something.
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Its pretty simple to make. Copper pipe, and a copper plate. Braze em together, add some holes for mounting and taddah!xFlankerx said:
Also there are some people who make them, but charge a pretty penny for them.
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just a little side note here. Make sure when using the liquid electrical tape you got some ventilation. Used some to repair some wiring in an Arcade Cabinet and the stuff is VERY caustic. I'm talking sniffing paint thinner would be BETTER than getting a small whiff of this stuff, so be careful 
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I couldn't believe I read through almost 2 years of thread posting about this topic with NO RESULTS. Where are the benches from this experiement. ??
Someone's got to have the balls to do this.
Someone's got to have the balls to do this.
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proth said:
Most people who have the balls to use dry ice have the balls to use liquid nitrogen, and so dry ice is not popular.
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squeakygeek said:
Not really... LN2 is harder to use and in my case harder to get. It's also more expensive.
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afireinside said:
Only harder to use because you have to put more effort into insulation because of the cooler temps. But cooler temps is kind of the whole point of this, isn't it? If you are going to insulate for dry ice, you're already putting a lot of work into it, so you might as well do a bit more.
Are you sure it's harder to get and more expensive for you? I live in a relatively sparsly populated area and I've gotten it from two different places. One time, me and some friends just walked into the place and told them we were going to use it for science experiments (really just messing around), and they didn't even charge us for it. They even lent us the dewar and told us to come back if we needed more. Ironically, I don't even know where I would go to get dry ice.
I don't mean to criticize anyone for doing this or wanting to do it, but someone wanted to know why the topic died off and I gave them my opinion. Am I wrong that liquid nitrogen is more popular than dry ice?
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Could you list those places please?
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Gautam said:
BOC Gasses
Airgas
Both welding supply stores.
And jeez, now I'm at a big engineering university and I could probably get it like it was water.
edit: And quite literally now that I think about it... I could probably just get a bucket, walk up to a building, and open a valve
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squeakygeek said:
Harder as in you have to learn how to pour it right and constantly hold a temp. You don't just fill the tube to the top and go. You need to control it. Insulation has nothing to do with it being harder.
