http://www.korzik.net/modules.php?name=News&file=view&sid=4481 

no science to it (sorta)m just lots of fun and cheaper than stripping sparklers and making mini flares..

whoa that is pretty intense ay!

Coool

will be trying that with the kids on the weekend!!


Still

not as much fun as setting a mag case alight!! :bounce

what are they burning, steel wool?

yep

the extra oxygen swinging it round sets it off

http://www.burningart.com/meico/pyro/mag.html 

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I cannot guarantee that you will not be blown to bits, burnt to a crisp, blinded permanently, blinded temporarily, thrown in jail, raped by a large inmate, forced to eat gruel, permanently psychologically damaged, or any number of other nasty things that happen to people who willingly partake in such actions as those described herein. I disown any statements herein. I'm do not speaking for anyone, not even myself.
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too late... I blew myself up before the disclaimer and now I will sue your pants off...

Oh..wait...no...leave the pants on at all costs!!! :puke :P

you can also hook up a steel wool to a set of jumper leads connected to a car battery to start a fire :thumb

yep...we did it with 12V DC power supplies in Science at highscool... uber fun!...also uber dangerous in the hands of a class of mental Year 9 kids LOL :P

Fun thing i eva did in high school was on the last chem lesson of my school life (in yr 12). Old Mr. Little thought it would be fun to get a milk bottle fill it 2/5 of wateva, get some blue tack, stick some potassium on the lid, then go out to an open field, put hte lid on, and hurl it like a grenade.

You can guess the rest Lol

He was an awesome teacher. He don't care much for rules and regulations for safety, he was the head of department, Lol. Fun fun.

HAHHAHAA... thats my kinda science teacher... yeah... old Townsy' (we actually just called him by his first name...Randolph!) was like that too...hehe..and he wasnt even head of the dept!

we tried to do this tonight...it didnt work the steel wool wouldnt stay alight for long enough we might have been using the wrong stuff though
we did manage to set the grass on fire though :o

I set fire to a shooldesk in science once...heheh... but that was deliberate.

Thhe craziest part is tho... twas ARRANGED by our science teacher! :duh

Another good one was when the teacher dude got a Milo tin, cut a small hole in the center of the lid and bottom. then a bunsen burner hose is put in through the bottom hole, and the other end is connected to the gas tap and turned on. the gas escaping from the hole in the lid is then ignitedand burns initially with a very hight flame... this however slowly reduces in size, as it burns down iside the gas in the tin.
Eventually the flme more or less dissapears from the top... as if it has gone out... but it is actually still burning within, and within a bout 10 seconds or so of the flame seeming to dissappear... KERBLAMMMM!!!!!! :bounce

sends the lid near into orbit and makes a nice impressive flame/explosion typpe thing.... very cool indeed!...also potentially hazardous tho... so at this point, I will disclaim any responsibility for any injuries incurred including but not limited to nosebleeds caused by a metal disc being blown up somebodies nostril!!!

I have some magnesium at mine if you wanna hit it with the grinder... hehehe