Slap Test?

[jkingrph]

Leave it to a "butter-bar"!! Just having some fun Lt. Welcome home!!! Sir!

Not a butter bar, but I was a mid grade Captain, pharmacy officer. Monthly we had to have an inspection by a disinterested officer or senior NCO of controlled drugs and alcohol. Now we got what was normally 95% medical grade alcohol in 5 gallon drums. and would usually pour it up into gallon glass bottles for handier storage. Now one thing about alcohol, the volume will change on it's on depending upon the humidity.
I was in a small hospital in Izmir Turkey and we did not have any truly disinterested persons in our hospital so I requested that we bring some in from outside our unit. The first time I showed a two or three ounces short on alcohol inventory. Our exec who was a former pharmacist said that careers had been made or broken on shortages such as that. I simply told him to remember the characteristics of handling alcohol and if he wanted to break me go ahead, that was the last I heard of it. Low humidity, volume drops, high humidity it increases, you could leave a 5 gal drum open in high humidity weather and it would eventually run over. and then in handling it minor measuring differences and some spills occur, so an absolute inventory is literally impossible.

 

[oldmarine69]

Interesting! Thanks for taking the time, and for letting me down easy on the "butter-bar" comment. Take it easy!

 

[el caminero]

Not a butter bar, but I was a mid grade Captain, pharmacy officer. Monthly we had to have an inspection by a disinterested officer or senior NCO of controlled drugs and alcohol. Now we got what was normally 95% medical grade alcohol in 5 gallon drums. and would usually pour it up into gallon glass bottles for handier storage. Now one thing about alcohol, the volume will change on it's on depending upon the humidity.
I was in a small hospital in Izmir Turkey and we did not have any truly disinterested persons in our hospital so I requested that we bring some in from outside our unit. The first time I showed a two or three ounces short on alcohol inventory. Our exec who was a former pharmacist said that careers had been made or broken on shortages such as that.

I think i can grok that.

 

[M118LR]

What properties do they have that appeal to end users?

 

[Fox Mike]

Many years ago I, along with a CWO, deactivated two Nike Ajax Batteries. One was HHB and had a medical section. We found that each Friday the med alcohol would decrease in volume and somehow found its way into a few of the tan mess hall cups. Amazing properties that stuff had.

 

[John in WYO]

If you're going to the trouble of carrying dehydrated water, why not make it worthwhile and carry something like dehydrated bourbon?

YOU, Sir, are a problem-solver!
Brilliant.

 

[Yaworski]

About fifty years ago, a Japanese company came up with a way to dehydrate liquor. They had developed a method to dehydrate soy sauce by microencapsulating the alcohol with the solids from the soy sauce. Turns out that it was also applicable to booze but there wasn't a market for it.

 

[Jakeintexas]

Not to get too far into it because the OP is a bit of a nut and worth ignoring but we were taught the ‘slap’ test which really didn’t mean much in AF survival.

You’d ‘slap’ the bottom of the can with it held kinda horizontal and if it ‘slapped’ you back supposedly the seal was ok and it hadn’t been breached.

It was for ‘canned’ water which never seemed to be worth the effort for me and I don’t know if it even exists anymore. There are so many other better ways to store it or get it. And if it’s a can of something might as well be a decent beer.