To: Joe 6-pack
I wonder if this shell was still dangerous after 160 years?............
12 posted on
02/09/2023 11:59:33 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Well, I wouldn’t go poking it with a stick.
18 posted on
02/09/2023 12:09:00 PM PST by
jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
To: Red Badger
31 posted on
02/09/2023 12:24:03 PM PST by
Polynikes
(Nicht geimpft Mensch 2nd Klasse)
To: Red Badger
I wonder if this shell was still dangerous after 160 years?. Yes.
57 posted on
02/09/2023 2:56:21 PM PST by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
Probably not. Since detonators in Civil War projectiles were either fuses or percussion, it had to have a hole in it. Rain water would would seep in over that length of time. I suppose that if it stayed dry or dried out it might be active. The percussion fuse would be a mercury fulminate type; and, "Mercury fulminate ... is known to weaken with time, by decomposing into its constituent elements". (Wikipedia)
Just to be sure, one could put it a bucket of water for a day or two. There wasn't any need to destroy it.
58 posted on
02/09/2023 3:18:58 PM PST by
GingisK
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