• @Cort
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    104 hours ago

    50/50 Aluminum powder and rust that’s stable enough to resist igniting under a blow torch. What’s dangerous about making it?

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      54 hours ago

      Attaching it to some kind of ignition, most commonly.

      But even past that, you typically want a very fine concentrate and even distribution of aluminium and rust. Grinding that shit up and mixing it is nasty for your lungs, without quality equipment on hand.

      • @halcyoncmdr
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        142 minutes ago

        You can buy premixed thermite online. Granted, you’ll show up suspicious when they start looking up sellers and their buyers.

      • @Cort
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        64 hours ago

        I mean a cheap rock tumbler with steel balls for the grinding and standard magnesium sparklers for ignition does would do the trick, I imagine

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          24 hours ago

          In theory, lots of things work great. In practice…

          You generally want some kind of background and some proper equipment. I’ll concede that making thermite can easily go wrong in the opposite direction - cooking up a recipe that doesn’t ignite at all.

          • @acosmichippo
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            13 hours ago

            well the guy knows how to weld at least.