Pupsdad,
This procedure has been talked about a lot and is not really recommended as there are tons of potential problems.
1. you are heating toxic oils and the vapors they give off can have an unknown effect. Think about all the chemicals we used to think were safe int he 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s that we now know were horrednously poisonous: asbestos, lead, benzene, and many others. These are oils used in lane maintenance and you are evaporating them in your kitchen.
2. in any heating situation, when there are two chemicals (in this case the coverstock and the core; and possible a third in the filler between the core and the cover) that, when heated to a high temperature, expand at different rates. This often and has at time sled to core separation from the surrounding material.
3. not all ovens heat the the indicated temperature; you need a correct external temperature gauge.
4. The WAF, wife acceptance factor!! you better do it when she ain't home or she'll put your gonads in there with the balls or you won't be married for long.
There are several others ways, all of which are much safer, to extract oil from balls. Besides the fact that oil is only one factor in the DEATH of balls.
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Edited on 7/18/2003 7:53 PM
