[ale] Thermite party

[Doug McNash]

O yea, lets get some beer too.
One of these guys was a rocket scientist.

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/tech-students-badly-burned-539845.html

(Not that I am a safety nazi.)

There is a bit of .30-06 AP available these days.  Shooting them from
200 yards or more would be more fun to me.
--
doug mcnash



On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> Is there any interest in doing this as a group?  Maybe in March or April.
>
> I really do have about 50 in-operative drives I need to destroy at
> some point.  If 50 dixie cups of poor man's thermite can be had for
> $100 or less, I'd be curious to try it out.  (fyi: P'tree Shredder
> will shred them for $7/ea. so $350 is my worst case cost.)
>
> We'd need to find a large area of dirt where the fire department won't
> come shut us down I assume.
>
> Anyone else have a collection of drives they need to destroy?
>
> Is buying the chemicals going to put me on terrorist watch list?
>
> Greg
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
>>> with the eventual goal of physically killing them at some point.  (Is
>>> it time for a ALE thermite party?  What's that cost anyway?)
>>
>> Poors Mans Thermite; Aluminum and Iron filings with a little Magnesium Fuse..
>>
>> http://chattarati.com/neighborhoods/southside/2010/12/8/demise-vega-chrysalis/
>>
>> Note the small thermite "sparklers" at the top of the effigy, but the
>> video doesn't have the dixie cups of thermite that were along the
>> central column.
>>
>> A dixie cup of thermite on top of a hard drive should render it
>> completely slagged and unreadable.  We'll have to experiment :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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