Posted on 04/16/2013 11:58:44 AM PDT by tobyhill
Pressure cookers – possibly activated remotely by a cellphone – are believed to have been used to make the crude bombs that sent deadly shrapnel hurling into a crowd of onlookers and competitors at Monday’s Boston Marathon, experts told Fox News.
Doctors treating some of the 176 injured victims believe the explosives were packed with deadly shrapnel, including pellets, nails and sharp metallic objects – with some patients having “40 or more” such fragments embedded in their bodies.
“Many of them have severe wounds mostly in the lower part of their body – wounds related to the blast effect of the bomb, as well as small metallic fragments that entered their bodies – pellets, shrapnel, nails – that these bombs had,” George Velnahos, chief of trauma surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, said Tuesday.
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If you picture the thumb and index finger of your right hand...
poised just like you would grip anything...
in my case a match...
one of my powder test batches flashed and charred all the hide right off.
Doctor at emergency room said he was on the verge of buying a Lee reloader and I changed his mind.
It seems impossible to me..
Yeah, but we had fun & learned something, too.
That same curiosity led me to eventually get a bachelor of science degree...
I still likes me some good fireworks, but I settle for the store-bought kind.
Insulated with what? Fiberglass? Rubber or plastic insulation isn’t going to survive welding or soldering.
Gunpowder. Think of it like a canon, but with the muzzle plugged up real good.
Insulated with what? Fiberglass? Rubber or plastic insulation isn’t going to survive welding or soldering.
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Standard feed-throughs consist of a metal jacket, often threaded, with a metal center conductor and glass as the insulating material. All three components are fused together at high temperature.
Evacuate them. I’m was using hyperbole. Maybe I should have been more obvious.
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