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Originally Posted by woodwalker  I followed a few safety procedures when I tried (my leather apron, gloves), and I put the piece in question in the yard.
I might be 18, but I generally think things out (or over think them). |
Leather apron, gloves. safety glasses, full hood face mask, welders jacket, steel boot covers will all melt or vaporize with thermite. The only effective protection from thermite is distance. Also remember that once started thermite cannot be put out until the reaction is over.
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." Mark Twain