I’m working on a fictional piece and this somehow ended up in it. I didn’t actually want to try this myself to find out but I’m sure someone has to have tried it. Would the primer explode and possibly ruin the microwave? How long would it take for the primer to explode if it did? If anyone knows of any news story or personal encounter with a microwaved bullet, please let me know. Thank you!
By the way, for gun aficionados, I actually mean the cartridge and/or round, not the bullet. I understand the bullet is a part of the actual cartridge =)
By the way, for gun aficionados, I actually mean the cartridge and/or round, not the bullet. I understand the bullet is a part of the actual cartridge =)
Wait so this has actually happened before??
Wait so this has actually happened before??
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There is a programme on UK TV called BRAINIAC it is fronted by Richard Hammond [the chap who nearly killed himself by rolling his car at 300 mph.]
He loves to blow up microwaves. [and caravans] [and anything else he can get his hands on]
Try asking him on the Brainiac website if he will try the bullet trick in a microwave, we can all watch him do it from the safety of our own homes then.
Should be fun. Safer than doing yourself.
While we are on the subject of microwaves, here’s a little party trick.
Immerse the cap of a light bulb in a cup of water.
Place cup in microwave.
Turn on microwave.
Its magic, the bulb lights, with no connection to the electric supply.
Ive done it several times [they call me the mad professor] and never blown up a microwave yet, but Richard Hammond does all his tricks in the middle of a field, and he gets behind a mound of earth.
Just make sure the metal part of the bulb is totally immersed in water or you will get blobs of molten metal all over the inside of the microwave. [thats a good way to end a party]
Sparks will be created from the metal and then an explosion will be triggered from the gun powder. DON’T ATTEMPT IT!!!!!!! Someone got a Darwin Award for being killed by doing that.
the sparks would prolly set the gunpowder off.
🙁