On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:08:38 -0700, pyotr filipivich
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Gunner Asch on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:12:14 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:46:55 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Gunner Asch on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:40:44 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:30:31 -0500, Don Foreman
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:16:59 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:23:31 -0700 (PDT), "Denis G."
wrote:

On Oct 19, 1:21*am, Richard J Kinch wrote:
axolotl writes:
Corrosion in the hydraulic line from the master cylinder
to the ABS modulator, causing a leak near the ABS modulator.

I'll never forget driving a 20-year-old, 10,000-lb motorhome down a city
street, pressing on the brake, having a line rupture, and having that
sinking feeling, wondering what I might hit before the thing stopped
rolling.

I had a similar feeling of dread after a ball joint popped on my old
VW Rabbit. Fortunately I was going slow and nothing serious happened,
but it was a sober reminder for me to do better maintenance.


I was driving a water truck, with 1000 gallons of water, 800 lbs of
dynamite on the racks beside the tank and 200 StaticMaster blasting caps
in a box beside me on the front seat, when the right front tire passed
me going down Whitehorse Pass one bright and sunny morning.........

That...was....invigorating.......


Gunner

That was ... really dumb. Caps and demo don't share a ride.

They often do in the oilfields. That btw..was in 1975. Seismograph
crew. Where we often used det cord to hold luggage and other stuff to
the roofs of our cars/trucks when moving from job site to job
site..often many states apart.

No one thought anything about using a hundred feet of 200gr det cord to
hold stuff on.

Shrug

It is all routine fun and games till something catches fire and
explodes.

It is people like you (generic) which caused Roseberg Oregon to
have some of the strictest laws about transporting explosives inside
their city limits. After a truck loaded with 6 and a half tons blew
up and took out much of downtown. Fortunately, it was in the middle
of the night, but still, it killed a lot of people, and injured a
bunch more. Took out eight city blocks, iirc.

Urban renewal, the old fashioned way ....


Naw..you can burn all the detcord you want and it only burns **** poorly
and stinks.

I'm told the same can be done with composition 4.
Just don't try and stomp out the fire.

Ayup..Ive cooked many a Beans and Mutha****ers over it.

Works better though with Lurps rations in a mess kit cup. Burns pretty
fast and Hot!



However Id not suggest putting it on an anvil and bashing it repeatedly
with a big hammer. You have a small but real chance of it popping off.

Its quite safe actually unless its attached to a blasting cap. Then its
eversomuch fun to play with!

I made a fair amount of cash in side bets on cutting down trees and
laying them exactly between markers, using det cord.

Hey, cool. Wonder if I can get some for the next Adventure in
Urban Forestry.


tschus
pyotr


I am the Sword of my Family
and the Shield of my Nation.
If sent, I will crush everything you have built,
burn everything you love,
and kill every one of you.
(Hebrew quote)