scott wrote:

>> On the other hand... where would I buy thermite from?
> 
> Why, you just make it yourself.  Isn't that the stuff where you get a 
> load of aluminium filings and rust and then light it?  YOu need a strip 
> of magnesium to light it though IIRC from school.

Well, I *do* have a large canister of laboritory-grade aluminium 
powder... but how to get finely powdered rust? (The finer the powder, 
the better it burns.) Not to mention magnesium ribbon - I used up my 
last strip, oh, 12 years ago. :-(

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