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>>> When we talk about coating something. I'm thinking along
>>> the
>>> lines of a candy coating on M and M candies. Chocolate
>>> coating for a Snickers bar. How would one coat a cotton
>>> ball
>>> with vaseline, and keep the center dry?
>>>
>>> If you saturate (through to the center) a cotton ball,
>>> it
>>> will light with a spark. I didn't believe this, until I
>>> tried it. Even the polyester balls "cosmetic puffs" will
>>> light and burn. Vaseline in a cotton ball makes a very
>>> effective fire tinder. Good flame, and puts out
>>> considerable
>>> heat, for several minutes.
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> Boil a largish kettle of water on three pebbles (to
> support it) and a 1ounce
> lump of plastic explosive in the centre of the theree
> pebbles. Light the
> plastic exposive with a match.
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I used to carry a block of C4 when in Vietnam that I used
pieces of for
heating C-rats instead of using the heat tabs, C4 also
burned longer and hotter
and didn't have all the fumes of the heat tabs.
CC