Plastic Explosives (Fallout)

Plastic explosives are a trap in Fallout and Fallout 2.

Characteristics
Plastic explosives are, pound for pound, more powerful than dynamite, causing 40-80 points of damage, and sport a wider blast radius. Correspondingly, plastic explosives are also more expensive than dynamite.

Plastic explosives have a timer that can be set anywhere between 10 seconds and 3 minutes, in 10-second increments.

In Fallout, plastic explosives must be dropped manually, even if held in the active item slots. In Fallout 2 however, if they are activated in the active item slots, they drop automatically.

Locations
Plastic explosives are harder to come by when scrounging, but military facilities often have at least a few charges in stock. Most shops do not carry plastic explosives, even if they carry dynamite. In terms of shopping, the best bet is to try higher-end weapons shops. Along with their big-ticket guns, some may have a few bundles of plastique.

Fallout

 * Tine Taylor, the underground merchant in the Boneyard, sells them.
 * Two can be found in a footlocker on the south side of Level 4 in the Mariposa Military Base (near the inactive Mister Handy.)
 * Some can be found on a corpse on Level 2 of The Glow.

Fallout 2

 * Found in a pot in the 3rd room of the Temple of Trials. However, it must be used to break open a stone door.
 * Lao Chou in San Francisco sells some in his general store.
 * Navarro underground armory, in a locker.
 * Two found in a locker in the northeast corner of the barracks in the Enclave Oil Rig.