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Title: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: Adasel on October 02, 2012, 05:44 pm
Everyone has done things as a youngster they regretted at some point.
For me was one instance where a friend showed me how to make a small "fun" explosive.
Basically all you did was take a penny, wrap it in a shit load of explosives and the wrap the whole thing in cellotape.
After that all you do is throw it, fuck me did it make some noise.
I have heard about people doing shit with tennis balls, packing them out with matchstick heads and then just lighting a fuse and throwing it.
Its classed as urban anarchy now, but im wondering if anyone else out there had that kind of fun as a kid, or if anyone had strange, ingenious ways of making things go bang.
I heard one about packing a big cola bottle with fertilizer although not sure how reliable this is.
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: AdmiralSpanky on October 02, 2012, 07:49 pm
I once made a "bomb" out of those little snap pop things. I unrolled each of them and put the contents in a paper towel and lit the "fuse" and ran.

It barely fizzled. I was highly disappointed.
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: gtgeorgz on October 02, 2012, 07:52 pm
Yep, when I was younger I used to make deodorant can bombs, they were insane! Also sparkler bombs which were so loud. Some friends and I also made a 7ft+ long potato cannon made out of piping with a combustion camber and everything, in which you would spray butane and this would then be ignited with a BBQ lighter sending the potato for miles! If you got the air to butane mixture right it would be louder than a 12. shotgun!
Surprise I never killed myself when I was younger but they were good times. :)
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: papples on October 02, 2012, 08:01 pm
Yeah, 10 or so years ago my friends and I made explosives quite often. That was when you could buy black powder at a gun shop and no one would care. If we would've done that stuff today... I bet all kind of government agencies would be after us thinking we were terrorists. oh nostalgia =)
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: discord on October 03, 2012, 09:57 pm
Yep, when I was younger I used to make deodorant can bombs, they were insane! Also sparkler bombs which were so loud. Some friends and I also made a 7ft+ long potato cannon made out of piping with a combustion camber and everything, in which you would spray butane and this would then be ignited with a BBQ lighter sending the potato for miles! If you got the air to butane mixture right it would be louder than a 12. shotgun!
Surprise I never killed myself when I was younger but they were good times. :)

Did the whole sparkler bomb thing as a youth myself (packet of sparkers, soda bulb all wrapped up in alfoil with a single sparkler as fuse)

I remember once making a huge one that had double the sparklers/bulbs and making a mini fireball explosion out of a letterbox
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: Adasel on October 04, 2012, 04:44 pm
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Yep, when I was younger I used to make deodorant can bombs, they were insane! Also sparkler bombs which were so loud. Some friends and I also made a 7ft+ long potato cannon made out of piping with a combustion camber and everything, in which you would spray butane and this would then be ignited with a BBQ lighter sending the potato for miles! If you got the air to butane mixture right it would be louder than a 12. shotgun!
Surprise I never killed myself when I was younger but they were good times.

Any info on those deodorant can bombs??!   Who says we have to grow up anyways??  8)
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: wretched on October 04, 2012, 04:54 pm
I still like making things go BOOM. the same things that entertained me as a child still make me smile today :)
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: WiggleRoom on October 04, 2012, 06:52 pm
yes.
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: gtgeorgz on October 05, 2012, 02:44 pm
Yep, when I was younger I used to make deodorant can bombs, they were insane! Also sparkler bombs which were so loud. Some friends and I also made a 7ft+ long potato cannon made out of piping with a combustion camber and everything, in which you would spray butane and this would then be ignited with a BBQ lighter sending the potato for miles! If you got the air to butane mixture right it would be louder than a 12. shotgun!
Surprise I never killed myself when I was younger but they were good times. :)

Did the whole sparkler bomb thing as a youth myself (packet of sparkers, soda bulb all wrapped up in alfoil with a single sparkler as fuse)

I remember once making a huge one that had double the sparklers/bulbs and making a mini fireball explosion out of a letterbox

Yeah thats the one, I remember the first one we ever made with about 200+ sparklers not thinking much of it right up to the point it went off, setting about 5 car alarms off lol.

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Yep, when I was younger I used to make deodorant can bombs, they were insane! Also sparkler bombs which were so loud. Some friends and I also made a 7ft+ long potato cannon made out of piping with a combustion camber and everything, in which you would spray butane and this would then be ignited with a BBQ lighter sending the potato for miles! If you got the air to butane mixture right it would be louder than a 12. shotgun!
Surprise I never killed myself when I was younger but they were good times.

Any info on those deodorant can bombs??!   Who says we have to grow up anyways??  8)

If you want a good one, get some duct tape and tape 4-6 full cans of deodorant securely together (flimsy ones work best, i.e ones that dent easily.)  Make a small fire using petrol and/or other fuels and then place the cans on the fire, making sure they are completely engulfed by the flames. Give it a minute and KABOOM.
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: Adasel on October 05, 2012, 05:25 pm
Mmmmm, that sounds tasty.
Wonder what could be achieved with a crude fuse and time device?  8)
I bet you had major fun as a kid.   
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: drugfather on October 05, 2012, 07:10 pm
Who said I enjoyed it just as a kid? My father is a blasting contractor and over the summer I get to help him make things go boom!

As an adult! :)
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: modest mouse on October 05, 2012, 10:15 pm
seriously, is there anyone who doesnt enjoy blowing things up??

i was a freaking pyro as a kid, i have become more responsible and less reckless so moved onto things like shooting guns now.

 i would light anything on fire i could, including my entire backyard and myself for a movie we made for school. used to even breathe fire which was fun

anyone else ever make MRE (meal ready to eat) bombs? just take the old style army MRE heaters and crush em up, add to some water in a two liter... then watch as the bottle expands to triple its normal size - then bursts with a surprisingly loud bang, throwing boiling liquid everywhere

used to strap rocket engines to my batmobile and rocket it down the street which was always fun. rocket engines just upside down in a small hole were interesting cause they blow themselves like twenty feet in the air at the end - fireworks in a state where they werent accessible
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: Limetless on October 05, 2012, 10:18 pm
Setting fire to sheds and kicking wing mirrors and stealing badges off cars. What else you got to do in your summer holidays when ya 13/14? :P
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: CoolGrey on October 05, 2012, 10:32 pm
When I was 8, I took the powder out of two boxes of cap gun rounds. I carefully put it in a match box, and wrapped it in an old news paper. Together with my dad, we set it on fire in the garden. It went *whoosh*. Loved it.
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: Ballzinator on October 06, 2012, 12:10 am
Me and my neighbor used to be real fucking psycho pyros. We made an electrolysis cell to synthesize potassium chlorate from potassium chloride and used the potassium chlorate to make explosives by mixing it with sulfur or red phosphorus ("Armstrong's Mix"). We made the best pipe bombs ever made by amateurs 8)
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: Slugger on October 06, 2012, 02:22 am
I've never not enjoyed a good old fashioned explosive!
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: Christy Nugs on October 06, 2012, 02:48 am
AMATEURS !!  :P
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: Limetless on October 06, 2012, 03:03 am
AMATEURS !!  :P

Lol we Brits aren't like you hardcore Yanks Nugs, we are just mischievous so kicking off wing mirrors and burning sheds does us just fine. :P
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: Adasel on October 06, 2012, 02:18 pm
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I imagine he was just joking.. If not, he had a pretty god damn hardcore childhood! "Hey guys lets have fun lets blow this guys mailbox up as he walks to get the mail!" Sounds insane. If your serious, than kudos, kudos bludsrevenge.

Reminds me of that scene in The Butterfly Effect, where they end up killing a single mother and her baby as they go to get the mail.
Sorry for the downer, but thats not my exact idea of fun.

Its closer to what lim said, kicking off wing mirrors or keying cars was actually a harmless way of releasing all that pent up aggression as a kid.
If you could pull of the occasional bang it was a bonus!!
Title: Re: Anyone out there who enjoyed making things go bang as a kid???
Post by: drugfather on October 07, 2012, 08:17 pm
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I imagine he was just joking.. If not, he had a pretty god damn hardcore childhood! "Hey guys lets have fun lets blow this guys mailbox up as he walks to get the mail!" Sounds insane. If your serious, than kudos, kudos bludsrevenge.

Reminds me of that scene in The Butterfly Effect, where they end up killing a single mother and her baby as they go to get the mail.
Sorry for the downer, but thats not my exact idea of fun.

Its closer to what lim said, kicking off wing mirrors or keying cars was actually a harmless way of releasing all that pent up aggression as a kid.
If you could pull of the occasional bang it was a bonus!!

I thought the same thing