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How should one light a Solstice bonfire? This year, I did it with thermite (video has a naughty word 'cos I was startled). That's about 150 grammes of stoichiometric thermite made with ordinary, off-the-shelf stuff and lit with a sparkler. The molten iron, at around 2000c, spattered and burned so we didn't retrieve it, but this proof-of-concept firing means I can go ahead with the thermite lost-wax casting I've got in the project file. Yes, I'm going to be doing mjolnirs. :)
A turn of phrase...
Nov. 9th, 2006 01:59 pm"Mixing thermite with water can be counterintuitively dangerous, causing a phreatomagmatic fragmentation explosion"
Come on, tell me the mad scientist in you didn't smile when you read that.
Context? Thermite casting, lost-wax, sandbox stuff. Wooshy without the boom, blacksmithy without the hammers. Like this: http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Samples/026.17/index.video.s12.html
Come on, tell me the mad scientist in you didn't smile when you read that.
Context? Thermite casting, lost-wax, sandbox stuff. Wooshy without the boom, blacksmithy without the hammers. Like this: http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Samples/026.17/index.video.s12.html
