Ed Huntress wrote:
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Normally, I stop warming when the casting is detectably warm to the
touch, probably ~ 100 - 150 F.

It makes the 'nearly impossible' easy.

--Winston-- Keeps an extinguisher handy, too.

Holy cow. You get this week's "What, Me Worry?" award.g

You're in a class with my cousin (now deceased, but for other reasons).
He was in the First Marine Division in Laos and Vietnam, and he used
to tell how he heated his coffee by burning a wad of C4.

As I learned from my former boss's boss:
"I got away with it, therefore it was proper, moral, legal and safe."



I guess it burns nicely, but I'm not likely ever to find out, first-hand.

"*Do not* light the C4 with your remaining hand."

--Winston