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[QUOTE]North of 8 - 12/21/2016  8:45 AM

By the way, really not a good idea to try and burn aluminum shavings, etc.  One problem with the thermite grenades was that they sometimes exploded rather than burned as they are supposed to.  We always used a blasting cap under the handle to set them off remotely, rather than just pulling the pin and tossing them.  Only had one out of a couple dozen we used blow but that is enough.[/QUOTE]

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Posted 12/21/2016 8:45 AM (#843709 - in reply to #837915)
Subject: Re: Will a fiberglass boat burn?

Even aluminum will burn, if subjected to enough heat. Thermite grenades are the standard the military uses for burning equipment, documents. Simply powdered aluminum, with an igniter material. For decades, planes leaving the old Denver airport took off over Rocky Mountain arsenal, one of the largest chemical weapons storage facilities in the states. A cynical old NCO told me the calculation by the pentagon was that if a plane crashed there, the temperature at which the aluminum skin of the aircraft would burn was high enough to incinerate any chemicals released into the atmosphere by the crash.

By the way, really not a good idea to try and burn aluminum shavings, etc. One problem with the thermite grenades was that they sometimes exploded rather than burned as they are supposed to. We always used a blasting cap under the handle to set them off remotely, rather than just pulling the pin and tossing them. Only had one out of a couple dozen we used blow but that is enough.