Burning mag wheels (on purpose)

[pzkpfw]

Thanks for the replies, people.

Some more googling now that works over shows a few hits (including this thread, already). Gave a few mentions that the brightness of burning is one of the things to watch out for - damage to the eyes.

Probably give it a go when the kids are out of the way.

Cheers,

[slopster]

You can buy fire starting blocks at camping shops. They have a block of pure magnesium, a file and a flint. You file the magnesium til you have a little pile of powder and then make sparks with the flint and the little pile burns up quite well. We tried for hours to get the whole block to burn up. It is too big, not enough surface area. Even tried getting a bit of Mg ribbon and lighting that up and trying to light the block but no luck. I think the chance of getting mag wheels going is about nil.