10. 1/8 cup of distilled water (Poland Spring or any bottled water can also be used)
3. Preparation 1. Take the 20oz lid and cut a hole in it big enough to fit the aquarium tubing. It should be snug. 2. Cut one of the 2-liters in half. Discard the top. 3. Crush the pills into a fine powder. Use a coffee grinder, blender, or if worse comes to worse, hand crush them with a pair of pliers or something. Put the powder into a baggie. The beauty of "shake n bake" is you don't have to clean your pills to extract PSE. Just crush and toss in! 4. Measure out and crush the ammonium nitrate (optional). If it is dry enough, go ahead and crush it. Not important that you do this, though. It helps ensure even cooking, but is not imperative. Put it in a baggie. (ammonia nitrate is extremely hygroscopic once crushed) 5. Measure out the lye. Be careful not to touch this stuff. It eats anything organic (YOU included) and also reacts with metal. Put in a baggie. 6. Measure out the Coleman fuel or Naphtha. Put it into the 1-liter. 7. Cut open the batteries. You must do this quickly because lithium reacts with moisture in air and will become hot, possibly catching fire if it is very humid outside. Use the pipecutter to cut the outer housing of the battery. Use the needle nosed pliers to peel down the housing to expose the strip. There will be a black strip in between 2 pieces of paper. This is the one you want. BE CAREFUL. LITHIUM STRIPS MAKE A SPARK WHEN THEY COME INTO CONTACT WITH METAL. DO NOT TOUCH THE STRIP WITH YOUR BARE HANDS IF YOU CAN AVOID IT. DO NOT GET IT WET!!!!! Once you get the strip out of the battery, it can be stored in denatured alcohol, and will no longer react with air as long as it is capped. Lithium strips burn VIOLENTLY when they come into contact with water. Be CAREFUL!! Here is the how-to video again YouTube - Get Lithium Metal From an Energizer Battery