Magnesium: DOW 2410

Care to sell some at a highly discounted rate to a long lost internet friend? I'm in the market for a small piece for a very creative outdoor fire project of sorts as unique as that may sound.

And yes, I'll sign a waiver clearing you of any responsibility for eye, skin or otehr damage. :)

Regards, Joe Agro, Jr. (800) 871-5022

"Joe AutoDrill" fired this volley in news:e2W4j.428$md.278@trnddc06:

Joe, better get a full inkpen. I have had a magnesium accident during my career, and the effects ain't purdy.

LLoyd

They can be nasty! Hope you healed fully as some can also be permanent....

This particular application will be shielded behind a barrier with the "light show" visable as reflected light in an outdoor atmosphere with local police and Fire Department approval... Lots of hoops to jump thru between aquisition and implementation. :)

... drooling over other people's stock of magnesium... :(:(:(

"Joe AutoDrill" fired this volley in news:E9X4j.436$md.54@trnddc06:

Yeah, pretty well healed, except for the possible increase in skin cancer risk from the whopping dose of UV I received.

I had 100g of magnesium dust catch fire in a fuel/air explosion (not a "boom", just a "whump"). The fireball was never closer to me than 8', but I suffered 3rd degree burns from the brief but intense radiation.

LLoyd

Ouch....

Yowza. Would be interesting to equate to a nuclear burst, something like

All safety issues agreed: you can get Mg from the spent anodes out of solar hot-water units. I've collected a few over the years: still trying to figure a way to

An easy place for free scrap magnesium are dead water heaters. These usually have an iron core but for what you want it for it doesn't seem to pose a problem.

So... You split the thing open and inside, there is a magnesium somethingorother easily accessible or can it be pulled from the outside?

Also from old air-cooled VW engine cases. Magnesium is (or at least was) cheaper than aluminum in Easter European countries.

Tony

Working on getting one of those... All the locals want me to disassemble the darn car for them... Plus, I think it may be too large for what I need to do...

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I was about 15 mileseEast of this fire:

The local news showed the fire spreading from one end of a warehouse to the other, perhaps a hundred yards or so, in about three to five seconds.

Disassemble the whole car, or just pull the engine?

Some were magnesium, some aluminum and you can still buy new blocks in either metal.

AIr-cooled VW blocks are made in two pieces that bolt together so if a block is twice as much as you need it's just right.

I'm also told that a sledge hammer can turn one into smaller pieces in a hurry.

Images here.

I just shipped one of these to Australia for a friend:

Well, let's see. I've got a dozen 10' long 6" I-beams, non-standard profile, looks like a rolling experiment. 35# apiece. Unknown alloy. Any Dow designation would be obsolete, Dow quit producing Magnesium by the early '90's.

Pete Keillor

Pete,

Can you take a match to it and see if... er... never mind.

They just unscrew. It is about a 1 inch hex plug on top. They are often in there pretty tight, and if the water is hard, there won't be much rod left. Or you can just buy a replacement one at Home Depot. They aren't very expensive, so maybe it is a cheap alloy.

According to this link they are also aluminum and aluminum/zinc/tin