Re: Somebody got busted in Orange County - Florida

Oooooh, where can we see?  ;)


"Alan Yates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> You can ignite it with a little meal in the open, I can't imagine how
> flash could fail to ignite it unless it blew it out or scattered it.
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> Then again I've never seen burning titanium blow out, it usually loves
> burning as it moves through the air.  I've got videos of it coming out
> of rocket plumes glowing orange and igniting into bright white fire as
> soon as it hits some oxygen.
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> Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:
> > I -still- don't understand that, Rob.  I can get 20-mesh spherical Ti to
> > light with regular flash.  Something else is wrong.
> >
> > My first inclination is that you have insufficient containment, or flash
> > that is far too slow, so that the casing opens and the titanium escapes
> > without being surrounded by the fire.
> >
> > Any flame hot enough to initially vaporize aluminum oxide will certainly
> > ignite titanium, in almost any pyro mesh size.
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> > LLoyd
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> >>With sponge, yes.  With spheric, I followed SOME of the advice given
here,
> >>but when further advice called for micro-manipulation and making flash
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> > compo
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> >>with a higher degree of precision, I realized it would be incompatible
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> > with
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> >>the scale I was working on.
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> Alan Yates
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