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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Video for pyromaniacs: Thermite (Good stuff)

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:19:34 AM EDT

Disclaimer: OK, I know that as a general rule anything cool one finds on the internet has already been posted on ARFCOM. Usually more than once. However, I checked through search as well as google and found no trace of this.

Enjoy: Thermite video

Warning: The site the link points to may have some adult content (banner ads, etc.) so be careful.

Edited to use direct link to video. Thanks -RotorDemon- and metroplex!

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:20:27 AM EDT

[#1]

link doesnt show any video with Firefox use IE

... OH yeah the site is NOT WORK SAFE

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:22:57 AM EDT

[#2]

I just ordered Fe2O3 and Al from United Nuclear yesterday.

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:24:40 AM EDT

[#3]

What the heck is:

"Alyouminimum"

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:27:08 AM EDT

[#4]

That's odd... I copied the link exactly. Curse you interweb! I'm going to have to figure out how to link to it. Oh, BTW I only added the warning like a minute after posting. Sorry about that. If anyone finds this video elsewhere please link it. It's really awesome.

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:29:17 AM EDT

[#5]

I'd like a few hundred pounds of that please. I remember reading about that in the Jolly Roger cookbook many many years ago.

Direct Link to file.

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:31:17 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
What the heck is:

"Alyouminimum"

So does the link work or not?

Hopefully this one works better : video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7231843493488769585&q=thermite

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:33:08 AM EDT

[#7]

The link worked fine for me...

Maybe all the pop ups are killing it. I have google pop up blocker and it killed 3 of them and left the video.

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:35:27 AM EDT

[#8]

"adding something cold to thermite doesn't cancel it out, it just makes it angry."

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:37:18 AM EDT

[#9]

I wonder how many times times its own weight of water thermite can vaporize at room temperature. I guess I could figure out the energy output in Calories of thermite, but I don't want to bother right now.

Posted: 5/11/2006 6:37:22 AM EDT

[#10]

I want some

Posted: 5/11/2006 7:33:33 AM EDT

[#11]

"We'll destroy this car not because it is old and white but because it is French."

Posted: 5/11/2006 7:40:39 AM EDT

[#12]

<--------

Posted: 5/11/2006 7:41:29 AM EDT

[#13]

Will standard cannon fuse light it?

Could it be used to burn out old stumps?

Posted: 5/11/2006 7:42:32 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

Could it be used to burn out old stumps?

I have used it more than once. It works great if the stump is dry. It might burn most of the day.

Sparklers work great for fuses.

Posted: 5/11/2006 7:48:09 AM EDT

[#15]

I could use some of that.

Posted: 5/11/2006 7:49:48 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Quoted:

Could it be used to burn out old stumps?

I have used it more than once. It works great if the stump is dry. It might burn most of the day.

Sparklers work great for fuses.

Well it looks like it would work far better than the old method of waiting for a dry summer and using charcoal and a box fan!

I'll definately try it. What is the easiest and cheapest way to get some in reasonable quantities?

Posted: 5/11/2006 7:56:41 AM EDT

[#17]

That car exploded! Good thing they stood back and lit the fuse from 50m away.

Posted: 5/11/2006 7:57:36 AM EDT

[#18]

I think they sell thermite at Knob Creek. I seem to recall seeing a kid asking his dad if he could have money for some thermite. Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Posted: 5/11/2006 7:58:05 AM EDT

[#19]

Where can you purchase thermite at? Is it legal?

Posted: 5/11/2006 8:01:19 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
What the heck is:

"Alyouminimum"

It's how the Brits pronounce and spell the element "Al": Aluminium.
In the US, it is aluminum.

It was on Jeopardy a few days ago:
"A beverage container made of this material that the British might recycle..."

"Alex, what is aluminum?"
BZZZT wrong

The answer was, what is aluminium...

Posted: 5/11/2006 8:02:39 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Where can you purchase thermite at? Is it legal?

See my previous post.

www.unitednuclear.com not only sells the ingredients for thermite, but they sell prepared thermite.

Posted: 5/11/2006 11:52:51 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
What the heck is:

"Alyouminimum"

British misspelling and mispronounciation.

Posted: 5/11/2006 12:01:18 PM EDT

[#23]

Safer Link

Posted: 5/11/2006 12:31:45 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
I wonder how many times times its own weight of water thermite can vaporize at room temperature. I guess I could figure out the energy output in Calories of thermite, but I don't want to bother right now.

Greenhorn,

IIRC thermite is good for about 980 cal/gram.

/TCP

Posted: 5/11/2006 12:33:45 PM EDT

[#25]

Oh thats just downright bad.

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Posted: 5/11/2006 12:35:04 PM EDT

[#26]

Thermite is commonly used to weld rail together in RR applications.

yakrat101

Posted: 5/11/2006 12:53:50 PM EDT

[#27]

There's a version that's used to weld grounding rods to rebar and structural steel as well. Cad-weld?

I'm a little disappointed - technically, they didn't add cold to hot, they added hot to cold...

I wonder what the results would have been if they'd initiated the Thermite, and then dumped LN into the container?

Posted: 5/11/2006 2:01:53 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Oh thats just downright bad.

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Yeah, and now it'll show up on your filter log.

Posted: 5/11/2006 2:02:45 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
There's a version that's used to weld grounding rods to rebar and structural steel as well. Cad-weld?

I'm a little disappointed - technically, they didn't add cold to hot, they added hot to cold...

I wonder what the results would have been if they'd initiated the Thermite, and then dumped LN into the container?

Man, I like the way you think.

Posted: 5/11/2006 2:06:18 PM EDT

[#30]

video is 403

Posted: 5/11/2006 2:07:30 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Quoted:
What the heck is:

"Alyouminimum"

British misspelling and mispronounciation.

ANdy

Posted: 5/11/2006 2:39:28 PM EDT

[#32]

Thermite is cool.

Posted: 5/11/2006 2:57:22 PM EDT

[#33]

Tag so I can watch it at home.

-K

Posted: 5/11/2006 8:37:54 PM EDT

[#34]

Dude, Andy..... you *know* I was just being ~~ethno~~ ~~Euro~~ Ameri-centric.

<------- Arrogant American.

Posted: 5/12/2006 2:15:26 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Dude, Andy..... you *know* I was just being ~~ethno~~ ~~Euro~~ Ameri-centric.

<------- Arrogant American.

Strange but true… Aluminum is actually the original spelling!

Humprey Davey, the Brit who discoverd it in 1808 first called it Aluminum, but then changed his mind in 1812 and called it Aluminium…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

ANdy

Posted: 5/12/2006 9:10:23 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Where can you purchase thermite at? Is it legal?

See my previous post.

www.unitednuclear.com not only sells the ingredients for thermite, but they sell prepared thermite.

uhhh, I cant find it. There's nothing on the site that I can find saying 'get your thermite here'

Are they calling it something else?

Link?

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