Magnesium Rod

[tombear]

At work they were overhauling the boilers and I ended up being given a three foot (maybe a metre?) inch wide rod made from what i was told was magnesium. It's something to do with stopping corrosion or something and the surface was brown and nobbly. When we sawed through it it was shiny metal from about 2mm in so I cut it into three and brought it home. I'm pretty sure it is magnesium as the tea spoon full of powder left over from the sawing went up in a huge flash when I put a match to it (tied to a stick, head turned away).

Anyway I intend to cut it up into 4 inch lenghts for swaps as I've found the much derided magnesium block fire starter shavings to be quite useful for adding to the good old vaseline and cotton wool tinder. I wouldn't buy a block now but since this was free...

Any other sugestions what can be done with it (no rude ones please! ;-{D)

ATB


Tom

 

[TeeDee]

:My birthdays coming up....

 

[TeeDee]

Or if you want to 'add value' get some Firesteel blanks and Knobs , insert both the Firesteel and The Mag Rod in a 'Side-by-Side' type affair and flog on ebay.

A bit like these ;- http://www.heinnie.com/7bdlcp1135034/Survival/Fire-Lighters/TOPS/c-1-484-485-565/

 

[tombear]

TeeDee, PM me and I'll stick a lump in the post. 4 inches enough?

I'm far too lazy to do anything with it except dig out a old surform and grate some of it for pepping up my fire starting goo!

ATB

Tom

 

[bushwacker bob]

Any other sugestions what can be done with it (no rude ones please! ;-{D)

ATB


Tom

drill a bit out and make a lightweight match case.
small knife scales.

 

[TeeDee]

TeeDee, PM me and I'll stick a lump in the post. 4 inches enough?

I'm far too lazy to do anything with it except dig out a old surform and grate some of it for pepping up my fire starting goo!

ATB

Tom

Tom , Have sent an E-mail as your not taking PM's.
Thanks.

 

[johnboy]

drill a bit out and make a lightweight match case.
small knife scales.

You have to be reasonably careful when machining Magnesium....

 

[bushwacker bob]

You have to be reasonably careful when machining Magnesium....

I know

 

[Asa Samuel]

You could crush some match heads into powder, mix it with the scraped magnesium powder and pour that in to a straw, home made fireworks!

 

[helixpteron]

Any other sugestions what can be done with it (no rude ones please!

If you join the three lengths together, it can be used in a boiler!

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

 

[tombear]

Do'h! please send again as i hadn't updated my e-mail address

sorry!

ATB

Tom

Tom , Have sent an E-mail as your not taking PM's.
Thanks.

 

[Nemesis]

Hi
If you fancy selling some rather than swapping drop me a PM

 

[TeeDee]

Do'h! please send again as i hadn't updated my e-mail address

sorry!

ATB

Tom

Tom Just tried , you need to do 'something' with your user settings.. sorry thats as technical as this ape gets...



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[tombear]

Aw nuts!

this old Luddite doesn't know what he is doing, here's my address, remove the under bar

tombear01_@googlemail.com

Nemesis, how much do you want?

ATb

Tom

 

[tombear]

TeeDee,
posted it today.

ATB

Tom