Unidentified metal in CRTs

Be careful when hitting the ferrite with a hammer. You will notice sparks, you will smell the ferrite "burning", (yes off of just a couple hits with a hammer). And, in some instances, if you hit it just right it fragments in kind of an "explosion" and will in fact burn the crap out of whatever it touches.

Originally Posted by TheHoss

Be careful when hitting the ferrite with a hammer. You will notice sparks, you will smell the ferrite "burning", (yes off of just a couple hits with a hammer). And, in some instances, if you hit it just right it fragments in kind of an "explosion" and will in fact burn the crap out of whatever it touches.

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. However, that does make me wonder how a piece of ferrite would react to an impact from 180 grains of copper jacketed lead travelling at about 1200 FPS.

Originally Posted by Bamcis

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. However, that does make me wonder how a piece of ferrite would react to an impact from 180 grains of copper jacketed lead travelling at about 1200 FPS.

In my exp 158gr @ 1190fps just shatters ferrite into little bits, and its easy to clean up with a few magnets. However,that makes me wonder what you got that flings lead that big and fast?? (bet a dollar on a .45...and as a random guess a 1911?)