Throwing sparks

yep, use to light old VW engine cases made of magnesium. We'd throw em in the water and watch em burn underwater.
even if you find magnesium to drag... don;t do it.

this might be a stupid thought, but i know fireworks add diffrent chemicals to achieve diffrent colors, could the chemicals be used to make different steel alloys to get a colored spark?

sorry dude, trailer balls are as cool as it gets

Originally posted by bodydropped



Edited: 6/4/2008 9:56:44 AM by bodydropped

magnisem once it catchs on fire it can never be put out thats why it was outlawed by the government for making wheels out of it, i was running a piece of section 40 pipe filled with titanium which helped make the titanium last longer, but i know that copper wont spark but if you want a bright spark find some zirconium its brighter than titanium but expensive, but now i run about 3 peices of 1/4 flat bar welded together



acyualy it can be put out. it has to be smothered with this purple foam, i dont remember what its called. the military uses it to put out jets on fire

please tell us that the trailer balls arent mounted on some sort of stilt behind a big gangsta SUV. underwater fire would be pretty cool to watch. and i agree, just drag frame. having something that can release powdered titanium or shavings of it under the steel might be cool.

i love my truck it drags body and frame so no bitch blocks not needed

Edited: 6/5/2008 9:35:21 AM by jcjcsoccerkid

Originally posted by waynehammer



Originally posted by bodydropped



Edited: 6/4/2008 9:56:44 AM by bodydropped

magnisem once it catchs on fire it can never be put out thats why it was outlawed by the government for making wheels out of it, i was running a piece of section 40 pipe filled with titanium which helped make the titanium last longer, but i know that copper wont spark but if you want a bright spark find some zirconium its brighter than titanium but expensive, but now i run about 3 peices of 1/4 flat bar welded together



acyualy it can be put out. it has to be smothered with this purple foam, i dont remember what its called. the military uses it to put out jets on fire

ok! so use magnesium drag blocks! just keep this guy's foam with you and you'll be ok lol

and no, dragging trailer balls isn't cool.

thats what i was going to say, i dont think anyone can go and get that special kind of fire extingusher but even if you uses a regular one your making like a bomb when you try to put it out because theres a chemical in them that will react to the magnesuim

i feel i need to dispell a few of the rumors on this one. i personally have never seen a block of magnesium catch on fire. the only time i was able to fire up Mg was when it was shaved down into shards. once that stuff gets going, it's seriously tough to put out. it takes a class D fire extinguisher or a foam called afff. afff is aqueous film forming foam, and the purple form of it is the most up to date. i believe it is a potassium based smothering agent. adding water to Mg is extremely bad, because magnesium is violently reactive to H2O. it makes hydrogen gas, which burns hot as crap too.

another myth is that your stuff will instantly catch on fire and burn to the ground. wrong. you have a high likely hood of it catching on fire, but it would be due to the buildup of shards and powder form (sparks) in a cavity on your vehicle. this could happen with and metal, but magnesium burns extremely hot, and lasts longer on a small amount of oxygen as opposed to iron, therefore, once it builds up in a small area, it's going to start a major burn. i have never heard of a big chunk of Mg burning, i mean think of wheels and engine blocks, they can be drilled on and welded on no problem. if you want to drag magnesium, but cant afford the $500 fire extinguisher, i would suggest using sand.