fun with dead mag forks
01-16-06, 09:41 PM
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fun with dead mag forks
Hey any of you guys ever put a dead mag fork in a camp fire? It turns your campfire into a ball of sun and everyone will call you jesus. \m/
01-16-06, 10:36 PM
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I'm thinking that wouldn;t work. I may be wrong, for all I know it may work but the percentage of Magnesium in a mag fork is quite low.
01-16-06, 11:38 PM
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dude the only way to find out is if you try it and im pretty sure the mag content in those forks is close to 99%. Or it was in my dead one at least. It takes a good 5 min of burning heat for it to catalyst.
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Ahhh... so many years after that MacGyver episode in which he sawed a magnesium bike frame in half to use as a torch, people still think there's enough Mg much less reactive Mg to create an incendiary device from bike parts. 
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Originally Posted by khuon
Ahhh... so many years after that MacGyver episode in which he sawed a magnesium bike frame in half to use as a torch, people still think there's enough Mg much less reactive Mg to create an incendiary device from bike parts.
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try putting it out. he he he
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Originally Posted by Blazinall91
try putting it out. he he he
01-17-06, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by khuon
Ahhh... so many years after that MacGyver episode in which he sawed a magnesium bike frame in half to use as a torch, people still think there's enough Mg much less reactive Mg to create an incendiary device from bike parts.
magnesium forks = 99.9% magnesium
mag fork + campfire = friggin cool to pull off without anyone noticing you putting it in
toast = pyro
tv = evil
water is pretty fun throw on the mag.
What did the torch macgyver make look like?
