In Tannerite news
A man is facing manslaughter charges after shooting a stove full of the stuff and the shrapnel from it killed a child.
I’m not versed in the rules of blowing stuff up safety.
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February 11th, 2015 at 8:55 pm
I think we can take one of Joe Huffman’s rules: never have anything solid between you and the explosive target. In fact, don’t have anything solid between the explosive target and anything that isn’t considered to be ‘backstop’.
February 11th, 2015 at 11:12 pm
If you don’t want shrapnel don’t put it in metal.
February 11th, 2015 at 11:49 pm
Most don’t know it in Ohio… but Tannerite and similar binary explosives have been illegal to mix and detonate here for decades…
Dann in Ohio
February 12th, 2015 at 3:00 am
Like a business. Location location location. Stay way back from stuff that blows up (unless you’re the enemy) and problems like this don’t come up so much. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
February 12th, 2015 at 6:02 pm
Like Tirno says; put the explosive in front of the thing you’re blowing up. Then it all goes back and away from you. Pretty butt simple.
And it’s not “Shrapnel” by the way. Shrapnel is a very specific term that gets misued so much that you can’t use it proper anymore. It refers to a specilized artillery shell that contains metal balls. It is fired intact, it flies intact, and before it reaches the target, it upsets with very little explosive force, spreading the balls out as though they were fired from a giant shotgun at close range. The low explosive force is NOT what kills. It’s just to creatc the spread pattern. The velocity imparted to the intact shell at firing from the barrel is what kills, again, like a shotgun. It’s like sending a “mother ship” at high BC from a long distance, which then births its multiple “children” close to the target. THAT’S Shrapnel.
If high explosive force is used to send fragments out to do the killing, that’s “shell fragments”, or in this case, “fragments”. Totally different concept.