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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by 45King:
Geez, if I had the equipment, I know a place I could go and do this, and I'd like to see it done (from a safe distance, of course.)[/quote]

RAJ - I've got all the needed equipment cept the Microwave! ;)

Being from the big city why don't you check out some pawn shops on you jaunts around town. Find a microwave for a fairly cheap price and we'll have at it when you come up. :D



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Schmit
GySgt, USMC(Ret)
NRA Life, Lodge 1201-UOSSS
"Si vis Pacem Para Bellum"
 
That's easy. Ghostbusters.

Crossing the streams would be bad.

Ok I am a little fuzzy on this whole good/bad thing.

Imagine all life ceasing to exist.....


I am not sure this is exact but it is close and I know its the correct movie.
 
I'd bet it would go off. Don't use a rotating plate one, that way you can sort of direct the bullets path.

I do know an egg will explode(covering the entire interior with cooked egg) in a few minutes on high. If you're gonna do it, do it in an "enemies" microwave.

FYI - cockroaches do die if microwaved. Someone told me they didn't, we just had to find out. ;)
 
ok, you want the ultimate in psycho experiments.

My seniors Physics high school teacher told us this story from his university days waaaaay back when. His university lecturer in advanced physics had an experiment constructed to demonstrate that fissionable material, in this case reactor grade Uranium would became strongly attracted to another mass of Uranium especially if the 2 halves approached critical mass. A rig was constructed using 2 hemi-spheres of U-235 (I think) that were themselves attached to powerful retaining springs, there was said to be sufficient mass of the 2 combined spheres to create a critical mass. Anyways after several succesful demonstrations of the 2 halves stretching the springs in an attempt to come into contact with each other, they finally managed it. They immediately began to heat up and showed signs of melting despite the best efforts of the tutor to separate them, he eventually managed it by pulling them apart with his bare hands in a moment of sheer panic. He was said to have lasted for 2 weeks before succuming to radiation poisoning. I have never been able to verify this story but it has never been far from my mind these last 20 years.

Mike H
 
I seem to recall from my days in college, learning all about radiation and such that microwaves react with water and metal molecules. With water, the temperature reaches the point at which steam is created.
With metals, the temperature rises to infinity.
 
Mike H, that story is true but it didn't happen at a university, it happened at the Los Alamos lab during research for the Trinity project. The physicist's first name was Michael, but for the life of me I can't remember his last name. Maybe it'll come to me later. Too much radiation for me also during the formative years, I guess. :)
 
I remember watching Newton's Apple a decade or so ago, and saw something really cool.
They had a steel ball (4" dia) that had a 1.5" hollow inside, and there was a .75" threaded hole in the side.
They filled the ball with water, screwed in a steel plug, and dropped it into a pail of liquid nitrogen.
(Which was inside a plexiglas box)
In a few seconds there was a big explosion.

Water expands when it freezes.
It has lots of power, and obviously was not contained by the steel.
-Kframe
 
I think someone wrote this, but I'll say it again. Microwaves (MW)work by exciting molecules, water molecules specifically. If you take something that doesn' have any water in it, like Sugar, and microwave, the end result is the same sugar you put in. depending on the climate you live in, the plate you put it on may not even get warm. so, the power will not heat up, assuming it isn't wet or something and the primer is mechanically activated (needs to be hit by something.) so it shouldn't go off in the MW.

but, the casing and if you are using a jacket round, that jacketing also will produce sparks. lots of them. like RAE said. lots and lots of sparks.

There are 2 things stopping me from trying this at home is
1) my IQ. It is somewhere above 55
2) i don't have a MW that I can use for the test

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If 45King can find a cheap MW we'll be testing in the following order...

Primer

Powder

Live Round (.308 lying down, and just to make it interesting a .454 Casull standing up at the same time)

Guess my IQ is < Chink's! :D

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Schmit
GySgt, USMC(Ret)
NRA Life, Lodge 1201-UOSSS
"Si vis Pacem Para Bellum"
 
Alright guys... Part 2 if you still feel the need to bleed.

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