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- - Explosives Tutorial I-
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- Every person who make explosives should now everything in this file.
- I will be explaining generally how an explosive works and general saftey.
- First of all if you wan't to be an "Explosives" professional one
- day you must never call an Explosive a "bomb". This is one way to tell the
- difference between someone who is good with them and someone who just
- thinks he is. An explosive is a powerfull force. It can be used for plain
- fun and recreation or for deadly means. If you don't show it respect it will
- show none to you. In other words if you toss them around and act like
- thier nothing, you will sometimes find that they will not always cooporate,
- and possibly explode. You must always treat the smallest explosive like it
- is a block of C-4. If you do this you won't beleive how many accedents you
- will save yourself from having. Even if you are carefull sometimes you just
- have bad luck and one goes off in your face. I had some touch sensitive
- explosives go off in my face, and trust me when I tell you it is an awakening
- you will never forget! Luckily it was not a high power explosive! Be Careful!
- It is common sense not to stick you head over something that is going to
- flash or explode. This is the universal rule for high explosives or any
- that throw shrapnel...(If you can see it, it can kill you). So BEWARE!!!
- Now I will explain generally how an explosive works. An explosive
- is something that lets off an enormus emount of energy at once. I'm not
- a chemist so I don't know how touch explosives work, but I can give you
- a basic runthrew on your standard pipebomb or CO2. The explosive explodes
- from internal pressure created by your explosive mixture such as gun powder.
- As you know gun powder does not explode, it burnes. Each of the little
- grains of gunpowder lets off about 4000 thousand times its own gas when
- lit, causing the pressure to build up rapid. The amount of pressure build
- up all depends on what kind of mixture you use and how thick your container
- is. I use a very fast burning smokless gunpowder. 700X to be exact.
- Smokeless powders can sometimes prove to be better in some situations than
- for others. One thing is when the explosive goes off and it has somewhat
- of a short fuse it will not allow anyone to know the point of origin. If
- you use black powder it produces a big smokeball and can be seen instantly.
- But, black powder is always fun to use if you are just out to have fun and
- aren't trying to scare the crap out of someone who you don't want to get
- caught by. Flash powder is not a very good powder for explosives. It does
- burn quite fast, but since it is such a fine grain powder, not all of it
- has time to burn causing you to waste great quanitys of it. Another reason
- it is not the best for explosives is because it lets off a very strong
- concentrated flame. If your powder does that, it might cause the hole
- where the fuse passes through to burn open a little more causing your
- explosive to turn into an extremely strong lighter. Gun powder such as
- smokeless powders are made of chemicals such as ethier and are therefore
- more flammable. An example would be: if you were to pour a flammable liquid
- on the ground such as ethier, gas, or acetone and lit it, it would all light
- instantly with a great flash. If you were to light flash powder in the
- same amount, it would take longer for the flash powder to spread along the
- entire pile.
- Now, you must always have a way of igniting the powder, a fuse.
- For now I am only going to talk about non-electrical detonation. A fuse
- is either flash powder rapped in a thin piece of paper or something similar
- to the fuse I explained how to make in one of the above files in the
- cookbook. The fuse must always be placed in the explosive without breaking
- the airtightness of the container, which in some cases can be proven
- difficult. Some ways of making the explosive airproof without having the
- fuse all smashing in a crack is useing a thick, nonflammable powder. You
- place this on top of the gunpowder on the end that will contain the fuse
- hole. This will help keep the pressure inside of the container by blocking
- it's path to the outside. It would have a tough time pressing all of that
- powder through that little hole before it explodes. An example of this is
- the sample perfume container bomb in one of the above files.
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