Can Thermite Melt Steel? Pay Day "Thermal Paste" Test 

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Allegedly all you need to ingite it is one of those really cheap sparklers that have those metal wires

As kids we would tape sparklers together in a certain way and use them to remove small stumps and scare pests away.... One day my buddies and I decided to tape 1,000 together.... It shattered ours and my neighbors windows.... The neighbor lady ran out screaming she just heard a shotgun right outside her window. The one buddy severely doubted it would do anything but we had done it many times before with smaller amounts. Thermite is no joke.

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I remember a patent that made thermite into pellets by simply compacting them and leaving it in water, forming oxide layer was strong enough to keep it togather maybe then you might be able to stick to a surface

So I noticed tou had a small clay planter for a "measuring device". But typically when you want thermote to burn through something you put it in a crucible with a hole in the bottom to concentrate and contain the molten metal in one small area. Sometimes a clay planter can be used as a crucible. The older thicker ones work better than the dollar store paper thin ones.

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Great video and thanks for showing my comment ! My next idea would be to just make a ring of aluminum foil, tightly pack it full of thermite, inhibit it with some sort of filler media, and pray for the best! Next video idea: what is the spiciest round you can make and launch from your shotgun? We have seen some tannerite filled hollowpoint slugs that were capped with 22 blanks, but what else can you get away with legally? Try drilling out the centers and put grade 8 screws in there. Try magnalium powder in there. Just make some truly diabolical stuff haha.

You could mix thermite and plaster with 90% or higher of rubbing alcohol. Much less water.

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Try using a ceramic flowerpot with a hole in the bottom. You should have a better flow and will only go through the hole. 😊

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Thermite grenades in the military are just used to disable equipment not to breach that's what real explosives are for.

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Nitrocellulose works. PBAN is used to bind thermate in TH3 Grenades so probably works with thermite too

You don’t necessarily need more thermite you just need to contain and project the thermite in the direction you want Video definitely unrelated, and definitely doesn’t show regular thermite vs directed thermite in a rapid building demolition ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4EqzRvZ7ChQ.htmlsi=DtK2EXQ_hMGL57v9

Add some sodium or potassium perchlorate if you want shearing mixture. The perchlorate should be in excess and aluminum must be course. Used this mixture to cut up scrap at a junkyard. Mainly because we had a bottomless amount of aluminum turnings and rust, leaving the perchlorate as the only component that we had to buy. It actually burns the metal rather than simply melting it. We used it sometimes for direct shearing, sometimes to prep for cutting with a torch. Usually used for scrappling large heavy assemblies that would take up too much space in the bins.

if your goal is to burn through things, stainless steel break line, stainless steelwool, add some o2 and its a thermal lance in minecraft.

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We need to make a thermite belt

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I feel like if maybe you used alcohol as a binder rather then water you might maybe get a better result. Because alcohol is also flammable but evaporates way quicker. But im no scientist.

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I wonder if making the thermite hydrophobic somehow might help? Not really sure tho.

Thermite definitely gets through metal easier when it's directed. The AN-M14 incindiary grenade can go through about half an inch of steel

There are some very interesting sites on the web showing how the railroads weld track together with thermite

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you need hotter igniters, maybe add a loose sleeve to them packed with raw material as it ignites easier to increase the heat into the mixed goop

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On the first world bank heist you melt through a floor into a big vault using thermite but you use a LOT of thermite, like, 2-3 Jerry cans full and then it takes like 5 minutes

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what if you put the thermite in a tube with a slightly narrowed end? or if you put it in a springloaded, shaped container to keep it under a constant pressure as it burns away? spoilers: this one works to cut, I just wanna see someone do it in resolution higher than like 240p. although, they specifically used thermate, so I also wonder if plain thermite can do it.

i wonder if a "thermite tape" (some sort of prestaged duct tape with a thermite payload under the sticky side) would be a better way to do the paste idea

I wouldn't call it impossible, but there's a lot of work to be done in getting a functional formulation. It should be possible to make microscopic pellets that themselves contain compressed particles of aluminium and iron oxide which in turn are probably 50-200nm in size. These pellets would need to be held together by a burnable plasticiser which probably has to work with less than 10% mass percent. Even then, what's the point? You have molten metal running down metal bars! That won't cut through it! Unless your target is horizontal and not rounded...

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If you do the experiment again may I suggest theremite and magnesium mix toget work better

using thermite at work to cut at times over 1m thick metal regularly... depends on how you use it, you need high pressure oxygen for most cutting

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I think pouring half a pound of termite into an engine would kill it whether or not you ignite it. Al the fine dust will clog the oil and seize the engine eventually

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Plaster on the sides of the thermite in the center stacked

I would think something like petroleum jelly would make more sense unless you needed it set up and harden.

Can you safely compact/compress thermite into a block similar to like rocket fuel? Would a more solid block of thermite burn better or not?

I was on a warship and part of the destruct procedure was to detonate thermite grenades on the very sensitive electronics for the radios.And radars, as well as certain very classified files.And there isn't why they used termite instead of explosives was because it was supposed to burn which means things could catch fire. So i'm fairly comfortable in thinking that the thermite won't belt through the plate. And what's up with the guy in the background.

What if you mix in a tiny bit of magnesium powder or gunpowder?

Probably the water oxidizes the aluminum. Even if you let it dry it won't go off.

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they do weld railroads with thermite

Create an alcohol gel, by mixing calcium acetate with pure alcohol. The resulting gel should not “wet” the reactants. Resulting in perfect ignition, in theory 😅

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Interesting topic 😅

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Without watching the video, i wanna say it can do that, the temperature is insane, if you use it properly.

Back in the day my dad had some magnesium plate in the garage... as a young kid hey lets put a propane torch to it... .25" heated it and when it lit holy shit exploded..

13:45 instead of a 4 to 1 ratio. Use a 4 part iron oxide and 2 part aluminum oxide. Then you’ll be able to do some absurd things.

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If it can weld rails then why not melt thru metals if in right quantities and shape?

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I'd like to see you try again with other materials, mainly clay or play doh, something already malleable that you can just mix the powder into.... maybe bread dough or something idk.

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Check out the Mythbusters Hindenburg episode and try again

"pre-mixed really thin thermite" there is your problem. dont use the thin stuff that can be used as your "welding-type" there are videos of thermite really melting through engine blocks

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Add magnesium helps speed the reaction gets hotter

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"thermite" is a generic term make magnesium thermite it will burn hot enough

thermite is routinely used to weld rail together. it can indeed melt steel

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I believe its supposed to be 50/50 not 3/1

Railroads use magnesium fuse's.

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just bget a thermal lance cut through almost anything like butter

It's acetone and Styrofoam that makes it ;)

To much aluminum need more iron oxide the mixture should be a mud red not grey likely why it was a much less energetic thermite than usual

This was really cool but I think the issue is clearly the paste part. Have you thought about a patch? Lol look into it let's see a video

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2:01 and those are for? Seriously those things won't do crap to protect you from anything but the smallest of sparks, also if they are made from anything synthetic they are worse than nothing, get some good welding/foundry gloves if you want any protection at all.

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