"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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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/
The great thing about getting older is that
you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
-- Madeleine L'Engle

Steve McQueen wasn't in Hellfighters that was Jim Hutton.

It also wasn't the movie Gunner was talking about.

That movie was either, The Wages of Fear with Yves Mauntand or the
remake,Sorcerer with Roy Scheider.
If it was the remake, then it wasn't sweating dynamite, but unstable
nitroglycerin.

Paul K. Dickman