If you were to remove the covering on a couple feet of "det cord" exposing the PETN, it could be dissolved in acetone. After adding a teaspoon or so of mineral oil (needed to keep the crystals tiny when the solvent evaporates) you could place sheets of newspaper in the liquid mixture, soaking them throughly. Carefully remove and dry the sheets and refold the paper. A daily like the New York Times would hold enough PETN to equal 3 sticks of dynamite. The detonator remains problematical.
The chemical sniffers will find the paper explosive w/ no problem.
Regards,
GtG
After adding a teaspoon or so of mineral oil (needed to keep the crystals tiny when the solvent evaporates) you could place sheets of newspaper in the liquid mixture, soaking them throughly. Carefully remove and dry the sheets and refold the paper. Many moons ago, we did something similar using a fairly concentrated potassium chlorate solution. The best use we found for the impregnated paper was starting charcoal briquets. Put some sheets of the stuff underneath your charcoal and light, preferably from a distance. A blinding second later, all the coals would be nicely started and the paper gone.
Properly confined with a detonator and that paper could probably have done some damage. Chlorate was used as the oxidizer in some trench mortar detonables in WWI.