Gunner Asch on Sat, 14 May 2011 10:37:33 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

But it takes a LOT of C4 to heat anything.
It's gone so fast it doesn't have much time to transfer heat.

What I want to know is, who was the first guy to try this? Here in NJ we
have these big myths about the first guy to eat a tomato. But I would think
that the first guy to heat his coffee over flaming C4 deserves a statue
somewhere, doesn't he?

Or a line on his headstone, "Here, hold my beer and watch this..."

The standard way to dispose of old dynamite is to burn it out in the
open, in small quantities. From a distance.

Joe Gwinn

MOVING old dynamite can be an issue...seriously. Particularly if its
leaked......

Or frozen.

I remember a movie with that plot line - they needed to blast
something, and the only dynamite they had, had been in a mine shaft
forever, and some had sweated. And the road wasn't paved. The trucks
needed new shocks. And then the rains came. I don't know if the
natives were hostile ... but ...

Gunner
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