[TheForge] RE: [TheForge Safety note

[Darrell]

HTH????
Darrell

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Childers" <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com>
To: "'Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:55 AM
Subject: [TheForge] RE: [TheForge Safety note


> Andy, Interesting; many years ago I taught a younger friend how to make
> gunpowder. He had it in a glass jar and was breaking up the lumps - Boom!
It
> blew up and burned his hand really bad. Never leave anything flammable
> around a forge or anvil or where grinder sparks can reach it - WD-40,
paint,
> stain, stump rot, ammonium nitrate etc. Never store brake fluid on the
shelf
> above a bucket of HTH or aluminum powder near lye. Don't put gunpowder in
> the same box with the primers. Same for dynamite and blasting caps. Don't
> crimp the cap on the fuse with your teeth and never disconnect the ends of
> the wires on electric caps until you unfold the wires and you are out of
> harm's way. Static electricity can set 'em off. Like handling weapons:
> Mostly common sense....
>
> Ron C
>
>
> 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. :)
>
>
>
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