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>From: 	Thom Fitzpatrick[SMTP:thom@calweb.com]
Sent: 	Monday, 03 June, 1996 13:07 PM

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Subject:      Re: '66 progress, engine in

And Dyer Lytle thus wrote:
>=20
> but I'm chicken of grinding and producing heat with magnesium since I
> have no idea how to extinguish a magnesium fire.  CO2 extinguisher I =
guess)

Metl-X powder

I have sucessfully used a grinder to clearance bell housings before, =
with
no adverse effects.

Thom

Be careful with CO2 around burning magnesium.  I have a demo tape at =
school thet shows a burning magnesium ribbon put into a hollowed out =
piece of dry ice.  The thing REALLY burns in that stuff

danno
--
> Where there's a will there's a beneficiary.
Thom Fitzpatrick=20
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