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Hello,

well going back to my 2006 notes.  my involvement is on using the actual plastic material was with extrusion and vaccum forming.

when i started my hobby, I wanted to use plastic that is typically discarded or recycled locally. my first problem is figuring out what the mystery plastic is. I recently discovered a weblink (that does plastic test) that helps me identify the mystery plastic. Later with  a few sparse notes on plastic original formulatory that I came across and tested against the weblink-testing led me to realize that with knowing true original base, could at least figure out what the plastic is made from.

I have noted there is a common factor on my finding 'original' base material for thermoplastic (meltable and forming by heat). is always flammable.

My preferred plastic material is polyethylene (PE).

my problem stemmed on figuring out the base material; Unless  someone published a plastic equivilant formulatory from 'original' base, you would be finding analysis includes one or two monomers from DOW corning.  DOW corning is the one who discovered cheap way to distill-convert-extract sweet crude oil into about 85 percent of monomers used in our plastic productions.

 however the properties of the plastic regardless of the crude oil based monomers, usually retains the the same original base properties that appears in the weblink plastic test identifications. 

for example, cellouse nitrate as interested earlier.. burns fast, smelling camphor (aka mothballs). gives guessimate that this base is some sort of alcholic [burns fast and does not float] based extraction from citronella oil (extracted from lemongrass) or camphor oil (extracted from cedar wood). so going by history of cellouse nitrate use, has to be cedar extraction.

PE gives off parrafin type smell and floats in water... so is sort of wax based process. I know from my search results; PE is based on ethylene which is derived from methane (methane is from cellouse fermentation-think brewing wood.) which burns clean. With Polypropyethylene Polypropylene (is from proprane which is 'chilled extraction' of natural gas ethanol), but gives acrid-disel odor, also floats which is wax based process.

Hey i am now going back in and see if there is new information on PE now ... my research was old... in 2006.

one thing of an note of my research does not involves thermoset class of plastics [beside the plastic test chart] because these materials are chemically made and requires additional chemicals to recycle the material.

R

edit:    my notes is no good!!!!  updating above with new info. PE and PP in particular, PP is made from alcohol!! In another note that I found on PP, i went back to that orignal web site and foundit  is removed. 

Hello,

not sure if this is the mod bug or the vanilla bug.

the fish list in embark shows mammal contents.  And did spot in meat list, few fishes.   

 

Todo: "lost adventurer tripe" bad meat ewww

Oh yes, I did see lost adventurer in meat list in the world I recently genne'd.



Rynait

 

rabbit has no meat! yet out there in RL,  is eatable, cookable, and stewable, probably   etecetera.

obviously the formula listed here should be is correct from results of  trial and error work (thank you thank you... proving aint right).  Would you all call this DF formula bugged or not conforming to RL?

Ry

genned a world [.23], noticed several 'abandoned' mountain fortresses belonging to a Dwarven Civ (which is still alive)

Wondered If anyone tried to embark to abandoned fortress with same civiliation [similar to retake]?

Rynait

quite interested in trying out the utility.

after reading the forum entirely, I am not too keen about huge radar [17x17].  3x3 or 4x4 is reasonable (to me).

keeping eyes on this ...

Rynait

Hmm

novel suggestion about slow moving golems, and is chained. 

Gave me another idea to suggest here...

build one tile "golem" workshop. assign golem creature to it (similar to training workshop?). Assigned Golem in there is doing nothing. Althen  turn off the golem workshop (lever or some sort of an tag trick), golem creature is without workshop and is full active.

Rynait

[one eyed gobbo, see in one of workshop, comments  "eeew that Mr. Gollum pickin noze", realizes Mr Gollum is the familiar Golem, but puzzled over new change... then realizes the difference. screams "NO, not again ... RUN!  RUN!"]

Heh,

moving my mouse for a download.  thinking perfect hopefully clean game to hook older kids on.

Oh gee, cancel that thought, no kid here in my house. sheesh.

Rynait