Magnesium burns a treat, it really does.. Early British cypher equipment, some of which can be seen at Bletchley Park these days, was often built on a magnesium chassis to enable them to be most comprehensively destroyed should there be a risk they might fall into the wrong hands...myglaren wrote:Somewhere on YouTube is a fairly spectacular video of someone burning a NEXT computer case made of magnesium.
I can remember the specific instructions to carry out this task in a specially modified dustbin... Sadly we never had an opportunity to test this method of destruction to see if it actually worked
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You have to be careful turning and machining magnesium and other similar metals. The swarf can ignite quite readily...