[ale] Thermite party

[Greg Freemyer]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On 12/28/2010 11:50 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> Is there any interest in doing this as a group?  Maybe in March or April.
>>
>> I really do have about 50 in-operative drives I need to destroy at
>> some point.  If 50 dixie cups of poor man's thermite can be had for
>> $100 or less, I'd be curious to try it out.  (fyi: P'tree Shredder
>> will shred them for $7/ea. so $350 is my worst case cost.)
>>
>> We'd need to find a large area of dirt where the fire department won't
>> come shut us down I assume.
>>
>> Anyone else have a collection of drives they need to destroy?
>>
>> Is buying the chemicals going to put me on terrorist watch list?
>>
>
>
> Where I live, we have a local community center that has a HUGE empty
> grassy area next to it and an old baseball diamond next to that which is
> ALSO right next to the local volunteer firedepartment building (
> unmanned usually). I happen to be GOOD friends with the local community
> center folks ( My church owns it, and I am on the board), and I also
> know a few firemen who might want to watch & have a training exercise..
> Of course the downside is, I am in Sanford community, see map here:
>
> http://georgia.hometownlocator.com/ga/madison/sanford.cfm
>
> the lot is actually the entire triangle bounded by Nowhere road, sanford
> Nicholson rd, and Loyd Nelms.
> --
> Paul Cartwright

I've never experimented with this stuff.  How bad is the clean up?
ie. If the drives were set out on the base paths between first and
second, how hard is it to pick up the debris?

I assume it would kill any grass, so base paths of that baseball field
sounds ideal if clean up is easy.

Anyway, looks like you're an hour and a half from mid-town.

Throw in some grills and burgers and it doesn't sound too bad if
nothing closer turns up.

Greg