@livestockdana Yes, Thermite is composed of 50% aluminum powder and 50% ferric oxide (rust; oxidizing agent). It burns white-hot. Can not be lit with match - takes a magnesium ribbon, which can be lit with a match. Thermite grenades are used by the military. Example: you can't take a vehicle with you, but you don't want the enemy to use it against you: you put a Thermite grenade on the engine block and leave. It burns right through it.
This is something you don't see every day! Thanks for posting that. If you have any videos to show more of the process, I'll be checking them out as well. I just stumbled upon this one when doing a search on "Welded Aluminum"
1:22 Fire in da hole!
TwoGamerGeeks 2 months ago
WW2 incendiary bombs contained the same stuff and could burn right though a house from top to bottom setting it alight as it went
trackend 2 months ago
Essentially, all thermite rail welding is the setting down of a foundry on the rail and it will mold into the existing rail? Am I correct?
1977kb0wqh1996 7 months ago
what is that can made of?
rrrtbds12223 1 year ago
@rrrtbds12223 probably ceramic
rc8rsracer 5 months ago
my dad works for cn and does this for a job
ItsVagTastic 1 year ago
thermite?
livestockdana 2 years ago 2
@livestockdana Yes, Thermite is composed of 50% aluminum powder and 50% ferric oxide (rust; oxidizing agent). It burns white-hot. Can not be lit with match - takes a magnesium ribbon, which can be lit with a match. Thermite grenades are used by the military. Example: you can't take a vehicle with you, but you don't want the enemy to use it against you: you put a Thermite grenade on the engine block and leave. It burns right through it.
TheMrBlinx 1 year ago
you can have that job that is the hottest job on the railroad after you shot 6 welds in aug. down south
railman247 2 years ago
Listen to 1:45 in the video.
Damn! That popped in the ase uh my britches. Good stuff!
TheMick26 2 years ago
why wouldn tyou invent igniters and light it with the pre heater.....
walluvsrum22 2 years ago
5 * and staright to favorites!
juvmol 2 years ago
Yep thats Thermit welding. Also called Aluminothermic welding.
TEAMBUTTERS 2 years ago
an hour for one weld??? if so where the heck is this
Travide 3 years ago
Is that thermite welding?
ncrailfan 3 years ago
Yes, it is. The whole process takes about an hour, but I had to condense it.
RKWproductions 3 years ago
@RKWproductions it takes an hour? why not stick weld it than
rc8rsracer 5 months ago
This is something you don't see every day! Thanks for posting that. If you have any videos to show more of the process, I'll be checking them out as well. I just stumbled upon this one when doing a search on "Welded Aluminum"
Haarmonics 3 years ago 4