A night in the freezer followed by a fast plunge into boiling water ought to
set up some fracture lines, then you
should be able to crush them fairly easily? Or try crushing them immediately
after they come from the freezer,
they should be fairly 'brittle' then. Just a thought......

bill otten


"william kossack" wrote in message
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I have some lapus nugets that I would like to break up and use in a
couple projects.

The only problem is that short of taking it out onto the sidewalk and
hitting it with a sledge hammer the stuff will not break.

Any suggestions?