Really offtopic now... (was Re: Disposing of an old computer securely)

[foodog]

  I wonder if Robot Wars has any weird rule that disqualifies
magnetically attached thermite parcels as weaponry?  Just trying to get
kinda back on topic.

  Maybe start small with plug-pyrotechnics?  BTW, a web site I visited
claims that 4th-of-July-issue sparklers make a good igniter.  That same
page refers to police cars as "statist thugmobiles", so I don't think
he's really into the Good Clean Fun aspect of thermite reactions.

Steve
(lucky to have reached adulthood with all original equipment intact)

P.S.  Ditto what Joel said.  You can get a nasty owie from molten metal
and exploding stuff, or high voltage, caustic chemicals, unshielded
radiation sources, etc. etc.

P.P.S.  A web search on "nitrous oxide" and "sparklers" or "sparkler
bomb" might still bring up an interesting Aussie website; those guys
know how to party.

Joel Dudley wrote:
> 
> He he, I still have some thermite that I made when I worked in the chemistry
> store room back in college. If I remember correctly,
> 
> 1/3 alluminum oxide
> 2/3 iron oxide
> a whole ton of potassium permanganate
> magnesium strip fuses.
> 
> Thermite does not explode really, but it will just turn your hard drive into
> molten goo. That should do the trick.  Ok, this is way off topic and I
> apologize.  I will resist these urges in the future. My first contribution
> to open pyro
> 
> - Joel
> 
> Note: The above is given in jest. Chemicals and explosives are dangerous and
> most likely fatal. Please do not attempt to build the above thermite bomb
> without protection and/or adult supervision if you are under the age of 18.
> Do not construct a thermite bomb with the intent to do harm to anyone or
> property that is not your own.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob George [mailto:plug@bobspc.dhs.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 8:16 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Really offtopic now... (was Re: Disposing of an old computer
> securely)
> 
> "Rusty Carruth" <rustyc@descomp.com> wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > Well, shucks.  If the recipe is not out there on the net somewhere
> > I'd be REALLY surprised....   Yup - google found about 3,940
> > answers to 'how to make thermite'.
> 
> Oh sure, but how many are on SourceForge? OK, who's up for forming the
> OpenPyro initiative?
> 
> - Bob
> 
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