r/maybemaybemaybe • u/beatrix_serendipity • 4d ago

maybe maybe maybe

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u/-MtnsAreCalling- 3d ago

Sodium hydroxide (e.g. Drano) works even better than acids.

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u/Mobile-Ostrich7614 3d ago

That’s probably what it is then maybe I had it wrong

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u/Humble_Survey_757 3d ago

No definitely was The Works. I've made hundreds of them but they did change the formula so it doesn't work. We used to call em Works bombs.

But yeah now you just look for anything with muriatic acid 30% or more

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u/Jolly_Me_Roger 3d ago

had to do 100 hours community service for making these... D: tbf it was weeks after 9-11

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u/HomeFade 3d ago

Was always Drano around here

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u/Realistic-Material36 3d ago

Sodium hydroxide is mean stuff. We have a sodium hydroxide solution in our lab that has a ph of about 12.5... that's SUPER basic. (Just like me lol) - dissolves organic matter on contact. I have to keep reminding lab students that they are, in fact, organic matter.

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u/free_terrible-advice 3d ago

"Why do my fingertips feel melty"

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u/VIKINGSZ0NE 1d ago

This comment makes me itchy

Cleaned hood vent systems for a spell, and heard of a coworker on night's that mixed several scoops too many into our pump sprayer. It fucking popped the lid and burned the shit out of him. I questioned many things about that job

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u/WeddingAbject4107 3d ago

My friend's dad used to make them with red devil lye, the reaction was crazy fast, they'd usually explode in the air when he threw them. It led to a really funny interaction with a sheriff once while he was drunk, sitting in a chair with the foil, lye, and empty bottles right under his lawn chair the entire time while he belligerently argued with the cop that came looking for the "guns" we were shooting.

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u/Lazy_Training_5690 3d ago

Yeah this is what we did when we were teenagers. Drano Bombs.

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u/ReadyPerception 3d ago

We used the crystalized drano in my group