Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> writes:
At 11:16 PM 6/27/97 -0500, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Making explosives is very dangerous even if the recipes are right. I personally knew many kids who lost fingers, eyes and other body organs due to careless handling of homemade explosives. Probably, the important thing to do before bombmaking is to learn the safety rules.
I would urge anyone interested in explosives, but unfamiliar with them, to first read the following books before attempting any recipes out of the "Anarchist's Cookbook" and similar publications. Your extremities/eyes/health will thank you.
Just for the record, _The Anarchist's Cookbook_ is full of purposefully dangerous misinformation. It is written so that if you follow enough of its recipies, you *will* kill yourself. I suggest old archives or the newsgroup rec.pyrotechnics, which, until is self- censored itself, provided excellent safety advice as well as how to make things go boom. I'd imagine that there is still a wealth of information about safety. BTW, when making nitrocellulose, ice baths are your friends, cold water will just not do. HTH, Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole