To: Criminal Number 18F
"It's never used alone in military explosives any more because it is hazardously sensitive in low temperatures.....
Quite true, but a small amount of it works great to heat your cup of joe first thing in the morning. During the war we used to open claymores and cut off a small piece of the C-4 and use it like sterno. It burns for a long time and is not dangerous at all unless it struck. One of our soldiers placed his canteen cup on two rocks and lit a small piece of it to warm his hot chocolate. The cup slid off the rocks, landed sqare on the piece of burning C-4, detonating it. It blew a hole the size of a quarter in the steel cup and sent it about 10 feet in the air. After that, no more adhoc sterno (heavy sigh)
17 posted on
01/13/2007 1:55:46 PM PST by
stm
(Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
To: stm
I saw some guys breathing the fumes from that C-4 to get high.
Heard people tried to put out the fire stepping on it too
You had to make sure those guys had the Claymore faced the right
direction.
just curious,how in the world does one open a Claymore?
18 posted on
01/13/2007 2:24:27 PM PST by
31M20RedDevil
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