Title: Can anyone show me a controlled demolition company that uses Thermate? Source:
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I find only that RDX is used in controlled demolitions. I can't find any link between thermite, or thermate and controlled demolition except on pages discussing 9/11.
Fed:Thermite nasty stuff, but like fertiliser has legitimate use
AAP General News (Australia); 9/23/2004
AAP General News (Australia)
09-23-2004
Fed:Thermite nasty stuff, but like fertiliser has legitimate use
CANBERRA, Sept 23 AAP - The Anarchist's Cookbook describes thermite as nasty stuff and, like ammonium nitrate fertiliser which has been used to fuel car bombs, it has entirely legitimate uses.
Thermite is a mixture of powdered aluminium and iron oxide, or rust.
It burns at spectacularly high temperatures, as hot as 3,500 degrees Celsius, which is hot enough to melt steel.
That makes thermite particularly useful for welding. It is most commonly used to join the ends of railway lines.
Because the basic ingredients are so readily available, anyone with the inclination could produce their own thermite, aided by some very basic internet research.
However, it is relatively difficult to ignite and requires an ignition source much hotter that a cigarette lighter, for example.
Magnesium ribbon fuse appears to be the recommended method to ignite the substance.
There has been at least one workshop mishap in Australia where the use of a bench grinder produced the ingredients for a thermite reaction with the resulting fireball leaving the operator with serious burns.
Thermite is used in hand grenades and charges for military demolitions.
The US AN-M14 TH3 incendiary hand grenade contains about half a kilogram of a thermite compound called thermate.
I'm looking for an instance where it was/is used for controlled demolition. The latest theory basically claims that it is commonly used for the purpose, yet I don't find mention of that anywhere except in articles related to this latest theory.
Like I said, I just like to double check things. :)
I'm looking for an instance where it was/is used for controlled demolition. The latest theory basically claims that it is commonly used for the purpose, yet I don't find mention of that anywhere except in articles related to this latest theory.
I don't imagine that any involved players will be advertising this technique today - if they ever did, it would be good to check with google cache, wayback, or some of the other archive resources.
I can't find any link between thermite, or thermate and controlled demolition except on pages discussing 9/11.
I find this troublesome for the latest theories.
Critter -- if you are really serious about gathering this information, here's what you do, in order(but only if you are the type that lies occasionally -- if not, don't do it):
1. Go through your 911 material and write down all the questions you can think of about thermite and other explosives used in demolition. Don't forget to ask about thermite-sulphur compounds.
2. Google and Yahoo search all of the smaller demolition companies you can find across the U.S. (there won't be many).
3. 411 all of the phone numbers you can get on them.
4. Take a day off work, pop a couple of beers to loosen you up and get to work calling your numbers. Now get ready to "pre-text" them -- tell them you are a reporter working on a story for a small town newspaper in(insert small non-existent town here, preferably in a state furthest from demolition companies headquarters).
5. Tell them you are very distressed about the all the nonsense floating around about all the "government did 911" theories, and that people in your small town are getting up in arms about it, and that you are working on a story to combat some of the nonsense. Tell them you need information to help prove that the government had nothing to do with it(this part is dependent solely on your personal ability to bullshit people with a straight face). If you are worried they may try to call the "newspaper" back(and thus discover that some phony guy just called asking about explosives), just tell them you work for a small, unregistered Republican non-profit and are working on the current newsletter. And don't feel guilty -- bounty hunters pre-text(lie) every day to catch their victims.
6. More than likely you will only get secretaries, but hopefully you will be put into contact with managers or field guys who know the business. Some of the companies' personnel may tell you to piss off, but don't get discouraged -- others will come through. Just keep telling them it's bad for America for people to believe 911 conspiracy rubbish.
7. Sit back and learn all you want to know about thermite and its use in demolition, whether it is popular in the industry or not, and don't forget to ask anyone you speak to why, in their opinion, "the crazies" would think that thermite might have been used in 911.