thermite thread... or something...

[theDevil]

i guess it was man made. and the lock where like a pad lock as guessed.
and nope mr macguyver where in jail and where freed.

anyway, i guess i got my answer: a big whopping NO it does not exist! could be made, but you probably end up locking yourself even more in jail then your captives did, not a good thing when trying to escape...

so thanks for destroying another cool movie gadget hehe

but yeah, thermite is definitely a cool thing, after trying to find information about it, i saw possibilities of usage in the game, should be "easy" to cook up to (i mean, hey if mythbusters can do it...), when i say easy i mean relatively, in real life i would probably end up making a hole, all the way to china ("oh that is a sign for ounces... obs..."), in game i would mix it up in a half an hour... (i have a big chemist score)

[pmulcahy11b]

I've heard of thermite tape -- but it's about an inch wide and close to a quarter-inch thick. Never heard of thermite thread...

[jester]

I would say this,

For a padlock, I think a strip of Det Cord would be able to open a standard sized padlock, now to put that theory to the test

Remember, an explosion is just a really really fast burn! And for the life of me I just can not see something that burns so slow and that doesn't last that long doing enough to cut steel or similiar metal through.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by jester

I would say this,

For a padlock, I think a strip of Det Cord would be able to open a standard sized padlock, now to put that theory to the test

Remember, an explosion is just a really really fast burn! And for the life of me I just can not see something that burns so slow and that doesn't last that long doing enough to cut steel or similiar metal through.

Thermite burns slow, but very hot. And sometimes you don't want to make a whole lot of noise.

[theDevil]

according to this, the main idea behind my thoughts should be available...

hence making any breakout a quiet, though sparky event.

http://www.dodtechmatch.com/DOD/Pate...spx?id=6766744

[Targan]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Thermite burns slow, but very hot.

According to a Mythbusters episode I saw the other day it burns at 4500 degrees fahrenheit, three times hotter than molten lava.

[JimmyRay73]

A recent episode of "Burn Notice" showed Fiona using a coffee can full of thermite to burn through some gangbanger's engine block. One part of me wanted to cry to see a GTO treated that way, but another part said "Ooohh, I wanna use that in a game."

[Legbreaker]

Thermite grenades have to be abot the coolest "weapon" I've ever had the pleasure to use, albeit in an RPG rather than RL.
Not a lot of blast of fragmentation, but damn do they mess up enemy equipment!

Thermite, as we learnt on Mythbusters over the weekend (same episode Targan saw) is simply powdered aluminium and iron (I think, missed the second one) mixed together VERY carefully - even the heat generated by mixing can be enough to ignite it.

The Hindenberg airship we all know and love ("Oh, the humanity") was coated in paint incorporating both these elements - a big contributor to the catastrophy.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by JimmyRay73

A recent episode of "Burn Notice" showed Fiona using a coffee can full of thermite to burn through some gangbanger's engine block. One part of me wanted to cry to see a GTO treated that way, but another part said "Ooohh, I wanna use that in a game."

Back when TechTV was still on, they destroyed a desktop computer using thermite. That was spectacular! Something in the computer reacted violently to the thermite -- lots of sparks and flaming!

[headquarters]

Originally Posted by JimmyRay73

A recent episode of "Burn Notice" showed Fiona using a coffee can full of thermite to burn through some gangbanger's engine block. One part of me wanted to cry to see a GTO treated that way, but another part said "Ooohh, I wanna use that in a game."

Burn Notice is kinda cool .

Sometimes its just stupid , but mostly its just plain fun - some of the ambience shots make me wish for Miami...seems most women are "tall and tan and young and lovely" there -the weather is nice ...( I have been once actually -admittedly ,it wasnt much to brag about .It was overcast.We stumbled into a big Christian rally -not many skimpy bikinis).

[kcdusk]

Originally Posted by Targan

According to a Mythbusters episode I saw the other day it burns at 4500 degrees fahrenheit, three times hotter than molten lava.

Doh! You stole my quote!!!