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Thermite Explained: How To Make, Uses |
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Thursday, 05 April 2007 |
Disclaimer: Informational purposes only! The author assumes no responsibility for any actions you may take described in below article. Any injury, legal trouble, arrest, damage to property, detriment, or other issues caused by stupidity and/or use of the content here is not the author's fault. The author does not owe you anything whatsoever, and you should check to see if this is legal in your area before you do it if you actually decide to. By reading below this bold text, you agree.
There are many legal and fun uses for thermite. One of them is not putting it on the hood of a car to melt through the hood, engine, and concrete below. That may be fun, but not legal, unless it is your car. Thermite burns around 4000 degrees Fahrenheit, and can easily maim or kill you, or people around you, let alone the property damage. It has been featured in podcasts and television shows alike (The Broken, Brainiac, MythBusters) and is used for various experiments...Destroying data on a hard drive, melting a laptop, destroying a car, opening a safe, melting into silly putty and using it to melt locks off of doors, and the list goes on and on. Thermite usually requires a magnesium ribbon to ignite (which itself require a torch to burn), and is therefore chemically sound enough not to be sensitive to electricity and movement as much as TNT is, although it doesn't explode. Whether or not you decide to follow the below instructions is up to you. I don't think I will, but I thought I would pass these on.
The below is text written by The Jolly Roger, and describes the creation of one type of thermite using household materials. Alternatively, you could just order it off of the internet here.
---END CONTENT BY MATT PARNELL ---
---BEGIN JOLLY ROGER THERMITE TUTORIAL--
Thermite II... or A better way to make Thermite
Thermite is nasty stuff. Here is a good and easy way to make it.
The first step is to get some iron-oxide (which is RUST!). Here is
a good way to make large quantities in a short time:
Get a DC converter like the one used on a train set. Cut the
connector off, separate the wires, and strip them both.
Now you need a jar of water with a tablespoon or so of sodium
chloride (which is SALT!) added to it. This makes the water
conductive.
Now insert both wires into the mixture (I am assuming you
plugged the converter in...) and let them sit for five minutes.
One of them will start bubbling more than the other. This is the
POSITIVE(+) wire. If you do not do this test right, the final
product will be the opposite (chemically) of rust, which is RUST
ACID. You have no use for this here (although it IS useful!).
Anyway, put the nail tied to the positive wire into the jar. Now
put the negative wire in the other end. Now let it sit overnight
and in the morning scrape the rust off of the nail & repeat until
you got a bunch of rust on the bottom of the glass. Be generous
with your rust collection. If you are going through the trouble of
making thermite, you might as well make a lot, right?
Now remove the excess water and pour the crusty solution onto a
cookie sheet. Dry it in the sun for a few hours, or inside
overnight. It should be an orange-brown color (although I have
seen it in many different colors! Sometimes the color gets messed
up, what can I say... but it is still iron oxide!)
Crush the rust into a fine powder and heat it in a cast-iron pot
until it is red. Now mix the pure iron oxide with pure aluminum
filings which can be bought or filed down by hand from an aluminum
tube or bar. The ratio or iron oxide to aluminum is 8 grams to 3
grams.
Congrats! You have just made THERMITE! Now, to light it...
- Thermite requires a LOT of heat (more than a blow torch!) to
ignite. However, a magnesium ribbon (which is sorta hard to find..
call around) will do the trick. It takes the heat from the
burning magnesium to light the thermite.
- Now when you see your victim's car, pour a fifty-cent sized pile
onto his hood, stick the ribbon in it, and light the ribbon with
the blow torch. Now chuckle as you watch it burn through the hood,
the block, the axle, and the pavement. BE CAREFUL! The ideal
mixtures can vaporize CARBON STEEL! Another idea is to use
thermite to get into pay phone cash boxes. HAVE FUN!! -Jolly Roger-
---END JOLLY ROGER TUTORIAL---
BE SAFE, and CHECK LOCAL LAWS!
---END MATT PARNELL BLABBING ABOUT IT---
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