Are you shipping it? What's ether going for these days?

Bill do u still have either for sale

Is it true that if you store pure ether for too long it becomes shock sensitive?

Is it true that if you store pure ether for too long it becomes shock sensitive?

Our club bought a 20 Litre drum of Di-Ethyl-Ether (aka DEE) in 1994. We decanted it to various individuals and finally there was 5 Litres left. My friend Dave filled a 5-Litre tin plated Motor Mower fuel can with it and I watched as he stored it under the sink in his workshop. Twenty Years later he died and some of us cleared out his shed. I took the 5-Litre can opened it and it still smelt fresh. I used the Ether over the next few years with perfect satisfaction.

It didn't leak away over 20 years despite the lack of storage precautions. It didn't form any dangerous Peroxides. I was talking to the local person who supplied most of the DEE to modellers in Australia recently. In decades of supplying it he's never heard of anyone ever having nasty experiences with it.