Originally Posted by Crompsin

Mike3, it's obvious you're about as skilled with explosives as TheJazz. But it appears that the TheJazz has more common sense when it comes to dealing with materials that represent a safety hazard. Probably because he has children and they live in a city where they can get incendiary munitions on the playground next to crack rocks and scratched Bananarama CDs. He keeps spare thermite grenades in a basket next to the door.

Please don't patronize if you're here to learn. A cursory Google search for "sapper leader course handbook" or "FM 5-34" will yield useful information that can educate and entertain you if you're leaning toward the crafty military stuff. I'd recommend staying away from producing the stuff and I've actually mixed it before (when I was a GI Joe). Nothing good comes from a young guy concocting destructive elixirs in his bedroom. I speak from experience there, too.