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- From: mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
- Subject: Re: Singin' Those Apocalypse Blues
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.072817.15736@u.washington.edu>
- Keywords: gloom doom magic survival
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- Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:28:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.235903.15792@u.washington.edu> grimoire@byron.u.washington.edu (John Greer) writes:
- >
- >I wonder how common the materials for these cannons are, though, and how
- >readily they could be made out of more common metal (say, scrap cars and
- >rebar broken out of concrete). This might be a short-term problem...
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- Normal material = Big Boom inside and surrounding cannon.
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- Don't do it. That is the reason old anti-aircraft barrels were used,
- since most materials aren't up to having LARGE explosians within them to
- throw a six-inch conical shell. Such materials can be made (obviously) but
- I wouldn't reccomend melting a car down for the metal unless you had to.
- Of course, if you have no choice, you learn to work with it and to not
- overly stress the metal.
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- Wassail,
- G.G.
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