http://how2dostuff.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-to-make-thermite.html

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"Now, I am not going to tell you guys what thermite is, or what you can do with it. Just do a Google search and you'll find tons of sites telling you a bunch of uses for it. I will however, tell you how to make the stuff. Obtaining the Aluminum 1) Go to a machine shop. They will usually give you aluminum powder for sweeping the floor or something. 2) Break open an Etch-A-Sketch, the stuff inside is pure aluminum powder. 3) Go to a paint store, they usually have powdered aluminum that people use to mix into paints to give it pigment. 4) Get a grinder, and something made of aluminum. Good ideas are soda cans, bike frames, and lacrosse sticks. Start grinding the aluminum and collect the sparks in a container. 5) Search eBay, they sell it for pretty cheap. Obtaining the Iron Oxide (Rust) 1) Take some steel wool then put it in a jar and then cover it wool with water. Use a magnet to make sure the steel wool doesnt float during the reaction process. Next, put in 5 tablespoons of regular bleach into the water and 5 tablespoons of regular vinager. Wait a day or so and then filter the brown paste with a coffee filter. Leave it out to dry overnight. 2) Go to a paint store, they usually have powdered iron oxide that people use to mix into paints to give it pigment. 3) Connect wires to a direct current (9-volt battery), strip both ends and put them into a saltwater solution. Let them sit for five minutes. One of them will start bubbling more than the other. This is the POSITIVE(+) wire. Put a 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 have a bunch of rust on the bottom of the glass. Let it dry out, and crush it into a powder. 4) Search eBay, they sell it for pretty cheap. Mixing the Stuff Thermite is 8 grams of iron oxide to 3 grams of aluminum. The formula is by weight but because aluminum is very light, it will appear to be approximately a 50-50 mix. Put them together in a container and mix them until it is an even mixture. If you want, mix four parts thermite with one part clay or Play-Doh and knead thoroughly for moldable thermite. Igniting Thermite needs a lot of heat to light, that means magnesium. Find some magnesium ribbon, or a sparkler that contains magnesium and put it into a pile of thermite. Light it with a torch, and run!"

[Edited on July 25, 2011 at 4:41 PM. Reason : think i'm on a CIA/FBI list somewhere, now?]

7/25/2011 4:41:27 PM

sweet

7/25/2011 4:44:19 PM

i didn't realize it was so easy...i like the 4 parts thermite + 1 part play-doh for moldable thermite bit

7/25/2011 4:45:26 PM

best way to destroy old hard drives and well... anything you want to burn really

1) Too much work
2) Too much work
3) Too much work
4) Search eBay, it's really cheap

7/25/2011 4:52:02 PM

pics are necessary.

7/25/2011 5:01:41 PM

I remember Kevin Rose burning a desktop tower with thermite. It was pretty cool.

Starts around 3:00 mark

7/25/2011 5:03:00 PM

My cousin was a firefighter in the airforce and was stationed in various places in the middle east through the war. whenever they'd pack up and move it was more cost effective to leave the base vehicles (little jeeps and 4x4s they used to get around) there than take them with them...but they needed to destroy them so they weren't used by the opposition


so they would just set a thermite grenade on top of the hood and walk away, shit'd burn a hole straight through the block into the ground


awesome

7/25/2011 5:03:58 PM

$17.63 for 1lb of unmixed thermite with an igniter is pretty good: http://cgi.ebay.com/370428884883

[Edited on July 25, 2011 at 5:05 PM. Reason : had no idea you could legally buy this]

7/25/2011 5:04:52 PM

I mixed this up in high school with permission of instructor but used glycerol and something else for the heat of ignition

I made rust with an electric model train transformer don't waste batteries

[Edited on July 25, 2011 at 5:09 PM. Reason : .]

7/25/2011 5:07:56 PM

From wikipedia:

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"The torch can preheat the entire pile of thermite which will make it explode instead of burning slowly when it finally reaches ignition temperature."

7/25/2011 5:40:53 PM