Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: 1 [2] 3

Author Topic: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil  (Read 5050 times)

That Wolf

  • Bay Watcher
  • Yes, that Wolf
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2015, 12:09:39 pm »

Whats the first rule of project mayhem.
Logged
I am not afraid of an army of Warriors led by a Child; I am afraid of an army of Children led by a Warrior.

i2amroy

  • Bay Watcher
  • Cats, ruling the world one dwarf at a time
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2015, 02:46:16 pm »

Seriously, if you are going to make aluminum powder you might as well just buy it straight. It's only somewhat more expensive than the foil, doesn't mess up your blender, and is often much higher quality since the companies that make it can control the amount of oxygen in the production area (and thus how much of it has already reacted) with more precision than "open the blender lid every 10 minutes or so to stop it from bursting into flames when you do open the lid". Store bought powder also has zero chance of bursting into flame while you are making it.

That said aluminum powder isn't just used for explosives/welding (though that's what most of it's purposes are for). It's also used in a few other things like say, making your own metallic-looking paint.
Logged
Quote from: PTTG
It would be brutally difficult and probably won't work. In other words, it's absolutely dwarven!
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A fun zombie survival rougelike that I'm dev-ing for.

Graknorke

  • Bay Watcher
  • A bomb's a bad choice for close-range combat.
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2015, 03:10:44 pm »

Lel, tonnot's family is going to get done for collaborating with some crime or other.
Logged
Cultural status:
Depleted          ☐
Enriched          ☑

Bohandas

  • Bay Watcher
  • Discordia Vobis Com Et Cum Spiritum
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2015, 01:17:58 pm »

I asked him if he was making thermite, and he said "I've done it before" then went on to tell me about how I can't watch what he's doing, how it's too dangerous, and how some people have to do things they don't want to do.

He's making some fucking thermite.
That's no big deal. Sometimes the only available place to build a bonfire is underwater.
Logged
NEW Petition to stop the anti-consumer, anti-worker, Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
What is TPP
----------------------
Remember, no one can tell you who you are except an emotionally unattached outside observer making quantifiable measurements.
----------------------
Έπαινος Ερις

Orange Wizard

  • Bay Watcher
  • mou ii yo
    • View Profile
    • S M U G
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #19 on: February 11, 2015, 06:10:01 pm »

Thread of the Year.
Logged
Please don't shitpost, it lowers the quality of discourse
Hard science is like a sword, and soft science is like fear. You can use both to equally powerful results, but even if your opponent disbelieve your stabs, they will still die.

penguinofhonor

  • Bay Watcher
  • Minister of Love
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2015, 06:18:49 pm »

.
« Last Edit: October 24, 2015, 12:21:41 am by penguinofhonor »
Logged

4maskwolf

  • Bay Watcher
  • 4mask always angle, do figure theirs!
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2015, 01:57:39 am »

Any update on the possible thermite adventures?

Il Palazzo

  • Bay Watcher
  • And lo, the Dude did abide. And it was good.
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2015, 05:24:54 am »

Whats the first rule of project mayhem.
His name was tonnot98's mum.
Logged

Sheb

  • Bay Watcher
  • You Are An Avatar
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2015, 05:41:08 am »

Yeah, looking through the news doesn't bring up any thermite-related terrorist attack.
Logged

Quote from: Paul-Henry Spaak
Europe consists only of small countries, some of which know it and some of which don’t yet.

LordBaal

  • Bay Watcher
  • System Lord and Hanslanda lees evil twin.
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2015, 01:08:21 pm »

WTF did I just read?
Logged
I'm curious as to how a tank would evolve. Would it climb out of the primordial ooze wiggling it's track-nubs, feeding on smaller jeeps before crawling onto the shore having evolved proper treds?
My ship exploded midflight, but all the shrapnel totally landed on Alpha Centauri before anyone else did.  Bow before me world leaders!

timferius

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #25 on: February 12, 2015, 01:51:54 pm »

Could you use thermite to burn through a safe? I'm not really read-up on my thermite applications.
Logged

Reelya

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2015, 01:57:22 pm »

Maybe she wants to make chaff to confuse radars? Are \they\ looking for you too?

She says it's for my dad. My dad's a handy-man, but the only use I could think of for powdered aluminum is thermite, and I doubt that they need thermite.

She refuses to tell me anything else, what do?

If it was thermite, he wouldn't need tin. Probably welding.
Contrary to the name, tinfoil is not actually tin. Food-wrapping foil is usually aluminum.

Yeah, though the full story is that it was tin before WWII, but Aluminium became cheaper and more durable. The name had already stuck though, just like "tin cans" which some people call any can no matter what it's made of.
« Last Edit: February 12, 2015, 02:00:50 pm by Reelya »
Logged

Sheb

  • Bay Watcher
  • You Are An Avatar
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #27 on: February 12, 2015, 02:23:57 pm »

Could you use thermite to burn through a safe? I'm not really read-up on my thermite applications.

Yeah. Of course, if you're not carefule, you'll end up with the booty full of thermite.
Logged

Quote from: Paul-Henry Spaak
Europe consists only of small countries, some of which know it and some of which don’t yet.

Graknorke

  • Bay Watcher
  • A bomb's a bad choice for close-range combat.
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #28 on: February 12, 2015, 02:47:45 pm »

Yeah, though the full story is that it was tin before WWII, but Aluminium became cheaper and more durable. The name had already stuck though, just like "tin cans" which some people call any can no matter what it's made of.
What people call "tins" are actually tin-plated steel. So they're not entirely wrong.
Logged
Cultural status:
Depleted          ☐
Enriched          ☑

Cthulhu

  • Bay Watcher
  • A squid
    • View Profile
Re: My mom's blending a bunch of tin/aluminum foil
« Reply #29 on: February 12, 2015, 03:05:50 pm »

Sounds like your family is trolling you dude.  Like when my dad told my sister that the girl from The Grudge lived behind her headboard and then later made that throaty noise it made in the movie.

Cue global catastrophe.
Logged
Shoes...
Pages: 1 [2] 3