I guess the military stuff must be pretty fine .... when we took out  
those old French trucks we didn't even bother to lift their bonnets,  
we just pulled the pins on the thermite grenades and laid them on the  
hood, it almost instantly went through the sheet metal and dropped  
down onto the block. It lit up the whole compound. I would bet that  
engine was history before 20 seconds was up. I will say that on the 4  
klick run back to the extraction LZ it was a comfort to know that they  
wouldn't be chasing us with anything more than shank's mare!

  cheers ... BBR


On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:00 PM, William Chops Westfield wrote:

>
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Brian B. Riley wrote:
>
>> I would just class it all as varying degrees
>> of hell ... never once using the adjective 'milder'
>
> I made some of the 30s/inch tungsten/barium chromate mix once, cause
> I find slow burning mixtures particularly interesting.  It's very
> weird stuff.
>
> (although, even the professional "welding" thermite is "mild"
> compared to the finely powdered mixtures that amateur would-be pyros
> put together.  I had a can of commercial thermite once, and the
> grains of Al and iron oxide with nearly kitty-litter sized...)
>
> BillW
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