On Wed, 22 May 2013 18:11:22 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Wed, 22 May 2013 14:32:37 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:
blink I guess I knew less about dynamite than I thought, thinking
that fire or shock could detonate it.

Shock "can"...and the higher the nitro percentage...the more likely

This of course does not include frozen then thawed dynamite...which
can have a very hairy trigger...very dangerous stuff.

Old nitro...can have a significant amount of nitroglycerin leaking out
of the individual sticks and into the sawdust in the box. I dont know
what they use these days for packaging if anything..but when I worked
for the Atlas Powder company dealer...nearly all true dynamite still
came in wooden boxes filled with sawdust. Prills, nitramons etc
etc...all came in cardboard.

I wish I had your experience there. Sounds like fun.

Me like things go boom.

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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight
very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
-- John Wayne