tiliquachub

hey,


I searched for any posts with thermite, but didnt get any real answers,

I was lookin around on the net for some new experments to play around with, and i found this,

could you please read this, and let me know what you think?



THERMITE

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, seperate 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 convertor 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.

* is this a reliable way to make thermite?
*instead of using a magnesium ribbon, could a use a pocket torch,
that burns at 3000 F to light it?
*do you need to use pure iron oxide, or just some old steel nail rust, like it says
here?


thanks,

TC

Hi, im new to the site,

I would like to know how to make some fuses, and was wondering if any one makes their own ?
Also, how much would it cost??

thanks for your time,
Tiliquachub