On Fri, 20 May 2011 20:27:32 -0500, Robert Nichols
wrote:

On 05/20/2011 04:12 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Gunner on Sat, 14 May 2011 10:37:33 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
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 ...

I remember that movie, but the name doesn't come to mind.


The dynamite was needed to blow out the fire on a burning oil well.
Starred Steve McQueen, IIRC.

Y'mean "Hellfighters", starring John Wayne? Great, fun movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063060/
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