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HFQ Offical Snippet #18

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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Graydon   » Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:13 pm

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ericth wrote:
fleadermouse wrote:Secondly, TNT makes a good shell bursting charge dynamite does not.


I'm curious as to why that is?


Because nitroglycerine, even stabilized, is shock-sensitive enough that firing the gun will detonate the shell filling.

If you look up the USS Vesuvius (1888), you can get an example of the lengths necessary to use dynamite as a shell filling not-very-successfully.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Weird Harold   » Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:57 pm

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ericth wrote:I'm curious as to why that is?


Dynamite tends to explode in the gun barrel because of the high-G's of firing -- like hitting a stick of dynamite with a hammer can cause it to explode.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Tonto Silerheels   » Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:57 pm

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chrisd wrote:

Going back to college chemistry, it was a lot more complicated to nitrate toluene than glycerine, AND they would only let us get to the "di-nitro" stage whereas Nitro-glycerine could be prepared "On-the-bench" if kept sufficiently chilled.

I present for your enjoyment http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with/.

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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Weird Harold   » Fri Feb 06, 2015 6:12 pm

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runsforcelery wrote:...If he’d been in charge of cutting those fuses, he would have given himself a rather more generous margin of error than the nominal timetable required, and —

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... Not that he or Sandkaran were likely to raise that point with Colonel Sheldyn. That was usually a bad —




Ok, I've been waiting for someone else to say it...

Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering Kaboom!

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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by therealorang   » Fri Feb 06, 2015 7:24 pm

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Weird Harold wrote:.

Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering Kaboom!

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I was about to - then saw you'd beaten me to it :lol:
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Keith_w   » Fri Feb 06, 2015 7:34 pm

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Randomiser wrote:
fallsfromtrees wrote:
We have already been down this road - since the piece you quote from snippet 18 was from mini snippet 2, and the LT who should have been making the report is named Hahrlys. My current thinking is typo to be corrected during proofing.


Nope. Lt Bryansyn (ICA) relieved Lt Harlys due to the latter's soaking and his hands shaking too much to light the fuses, and Lt Bryansyn (RDA) has just been relieved and will get exactly far enough away to survive the BOOM! Just as well really as the two Lt Bryansyn's are brothers; the RDA one being a Temple Loyalist who left Charis some years ago. It's that kind of war ;)


good explanantion.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Frankjg   » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:22 pm

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Very interesting snippett. Can not wait to see what happens now.

Best wishes to you wife. Hope she gets better.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Steelpoodle   » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:33 pm

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Thank you ever so much for this post. I have suffered a major family tragedy and was in need of some slight respite and this post offered me just a bit of a smile, something I have not done for 4 days. I love the way this feels, the quiet confidence in the characters and assurance in their actions.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Thrandir   » Sat Feb 07, 2015 12:10 am

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Thanks for the snippet RFC.

I hope Sharon regains her sea-legs so to speak soon.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by StalksInShadows   » Sat Feb 07, 2015 1:24 am

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Hi, long time lurker. Sounds like what RFC is describing is actually cordite.
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