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The Art Alchemist's Guild

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[–] duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe my hydrofluoric acid for integrated circuit delayering, but it's dilute enough to be sold at Walmart as rust remover, so I'm not sure. I'm still taking precautions.

If the metric is injuries so far, then it's probably my xacto knife, but those have all been minor injuries.

Technically, I have some spare microwaves that I may harvest the transformers out of. Maybe. Microwave oven transformers are really good at killing people who should know better, so I'm not sure I want to risk it even if I know I could take enough precautions to be safe. MOTs are pretty much perfectly optimized for accidental fatal electrocutions.