[TheForge] RE: TheForge Digest, Vol 5, Issue 37

[Andy Vida]

John Husvar wrote:
> 
> TOOL GYPSY wrote:
> > Well i never thought about napalm but.....  thanks for all the input on
> > the firepot querry.
> >                                                           Paddy p the
> > wannabe
> 
> Hmmmm, napalm. How does it coke up? Is it clean burning? How is it for
> welding?
> 
> I've seen it used, but there wasn't any blacksmithing going on at the time.

	At 14 I was into napalm.  I even made it... I gelled up gaoline
	with styrofoam, finely divided magnesium, finely divided aluminum,
	even experimented with adding aluminum hydroxide, a component of
	"commercial" napalm.  Then I'd go blow things up.  Got learned real
	good when a glob made its way to my right palm and burned a hole
	maybe 1/16" deep.  I couldn't get it off.  It just stuck and burned
	and burned and it was mind bendingly painful... and that was a
	glob maybe 3/8" across, if that.  It gave me an appreciation for
	the horrible thing it must have been to be burned by it during
	the war.

	But it didn't dissuade me from fire, obviously. :)

	-Andy