Posted by GeneMO on April 21, 2008 at 06:56:23 from (216.74.196.145):
In Reply to: Amonium Nitrate posted by Mtgummibear on April 21, 2008 at 06:09:00:
Well as usual, the media is hyping everything. I have used commercial blasting agent, back in the good ole days when you could do such things.
it's not just real easy to set off the commercial stuff, let alone homemade. first he would have had to mix the right ratio of diesel. Nitro methane would work better, but pretty hard to come by.
Then it needs a pretty good "thump" to set it off. I did set off 100 pounds once using two electric blasting caps, (I had ran out of dynamite) but again, go try to find electric, or any sort of blasting cap these days..
I did try to make some once with diesel, and I still had caps to try to initiate the deal. I made about 5 pounds and covered it with a bunch of sand. I was trying to blow out a shelf of rock on my creek bottom road. I did succeed in blowing a bunch of sand up in the air, but not a real explosion.
I would say he was thinking big and just plain being stupid.
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