That’s essentially contradictory. You don’t acquire these skills just by reading books and surfing the web. He put together sophisticated, chain reaction devices which were extremely powerful. If he planned and practiced for years, someone else has to at least know about this guy’s “hobby.” Someone advised him along the way about points that he couldn’t clarify just by reading books.
No way this guy pulled this off on his own without any help or advice along the way in the planning and preparation process, possibly even the execution phase.
Not buying it. I don’t care what the internet screed says.
Just part of said “internet screed”:
“Item: Aluminium powder, flaked 400 mesh (particle size)
Intended use: component to tertiary charge (fertilizer sensitizer). According to sources; alu powder mixed with AN will increase tertiary charge sensitivity and increase demolition power by approximately 10-30%
Quantity: 10-15% of total fertilizer weight (2 tons of fertilizer means 200-300 kg alu powder)
Supplier: Keten, a Polish chem. store
Alt. supplier: You can buy large alu ingots and file them down or try other chem store
The alternative method described:
Buy aluminium bars/ingots or profiles from a forge/supplier and file these metal bars down to powder using specialized cryo filing drill bur and renting a high powered drill. If, in the future, intelligence agencies counter and start monitoring forges then alu scrap is also an option. I did significant research on this area and concluded: the optimal aluminium filing drill bit is the following:
Brand: Partsmaster, nch.com, Cryo phase, nitrid/carbid/cobalt burrs, ball nose cylinder 13mm, recommended drill RPM is 7000-38 000. They cost 130 Euro in my country. I haven’t yet tested it but according to my calculations you should be able to generate at least 1kg of alu powder per minute (2 hours = 120 kg vs manual filing would take 112 hours for the same amount). You should probably dip the burr in ice water every 20 sec to prevent overheating, but I will have to double check this with supplier. We don’t want the burr to crack.
Note: when filing; ALWAYS use a 3M mask with particle filter and create a 1m3 “work chamber” using plastic sheeting to prevent spreading alu particles all over the room/area.
Cost: 2000 Euro for 150 kg, shipping included. You can probably get 100 kg un-processed alu bars from 1000 Euro.
Payment by bank wire
Delivery: Ordered and paid in mid December. As of March 1st 2011, I have still not received it. The supplier is really unprofessional and has ignored my 5 last emails. 3 x 50 kg containers are supposed to be shipped to a Schenker store in Karlstad, Sweden, where I will make a pickup and transfer it to Oslo.
Cover story: Alu powder is an essential component to certain types of boat epoxy paints to give the paint UV protective properties. In the first email I explained this in detail (that it was for maritime epoxy coating purposes etc.). My company is a producer of coating solutions for the maritime sector etc.
Cover story used: yes
Risk: High. I regret placing the order as I see, in retrospect, that Keten is likely to be closely monitored by a majority of European intelligence agencies. Instead, I should have bought alu ingots from a forge and filing them down to powder using a special cryo filing drill bur and renting a high powered drill. As for type of alu; I am not really sure if flaked 400 mesh powder is the most optimal choice. There are conflicting facts surrounding the optimal alu particle size/shape for demolition purposes. Some said 400 flaked was optimal but other sources claimed spherical + other sizes was the best.”