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Post by crazycarl on Oct 9, 2020 10:39:08 GMT -5
My grandmother was a mean harpy of a woman & my favorite "prank" was to bury a can of hairspray in the burn barrel.
She'd light the trash & hang out for a few to ensure nothing blew out & set the front pasture on fire.
Never in my life did I see her move so fast as when a 20' geyser of flaming trash erupted. To say she was NOT amused would be an understatement.
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Post by RDW on Oct 9, 2020 10:50:38 GMT -5
Statute of limitations should be up on most things we did when young right ? RIGHT ? My God Bula, I hope so. Hahahaha
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Post by needsmostuff on Oct 9, 2020 11:05:10 GMT -5
A ball bearing stuffed in a water pipe with a hole drilled for a firecracker fuse ,over powder from a whole box of pulled 22s fuse does not make a cannon ,,,,,more like a bomb . Just sayin. And the fence post you tie it to for aiming and such , probably is not gonna be tough enough. Who knew ?
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Post by RDW on Oct 9, 2020 11:46:03 GMT -5
You Know guys it would probably be well placed in the lounge, but being it is that we are what we are, and so many in the Military and or have been into obviously firearms our entire lives. And not to mention as i stated earlier in this thread about Astronauts. men like us being that type of boy. Wouldn't this be a great thread? The exploits of our youth. The nutty and somewhat very dangerous stuff we tried as boys. My father owned a major auto parts chain in the Texas here called HILO Auto. O Reilly bought them all up eventually and the five main shareholders all retired, but i got to grow up in Hilo # 33 in Alvin Texas. Machinery at my disposal and tons of wooded acreage behind it for motocross tracks, and shooting as well as the weekly experimentation that usually ended up with something valuable being utterly destroyed or blown in to the surrounding areas! What would we call the thread? CASWAT! ..............Crazy Ass Stuff We All Tried? HITHDISMY........... How In The Hell Did I Survive My Youth? DIRGAWT............. Did I Really Get Away With This? LOL The possibilities are endless here. I bet the men on this forum could all write a book, or a conglomerate of stories that would be a best seller! Whata Ya Think? R
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Post by needsmostuff on Oct 9, 2020 12:32:07 GMT -5
How about some basic cool kid chemistry ? First you take some household lye and shake some (measure ,,,nah) into a 1 quart glass Coke bottle (remember those ) then add water. Dissolving may require sloshing around and it should be pointed out when that shit gets on ya it will leave a mark for the rest of your life. Anyway you then ball up some balls of tin foil and drop them in . Fast as you can pull a balloon (biggest one you can get )over the top. Seems this rocket science generates something very close to hydrogen at a rather rapid rate. COOL. Young scientists will rapidly get bored just launching balloons across the neighborhood but there can be enough lift for about 2 1/2 feet of slow burning toilet paper fuse . Cool again ,, Now flaming balls of burning balloons can be dropped into neighbors yards! But ,,,,, My balloons (remember I said bigger is better)maxed out early in the lift department. When 3 feet of fuse was tried the balloon merely hovered next to the launchpad person (me) but the breeze did draw the lit fuse straight to the balloon . Whoda thunk it ? I guess weather conditions ARE important. Also it is not a lot of fun going to school with no eyebrows and burn crème on you arm instead of hair.
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Post by dougader on Oct 9, 2020 13:42:03 GMT -5
Statute of limitations should be up on most things we did when young right ? RIGHT ? I'm just glad the propane bottle burned up all the gas - rocketing across the sky as it did - before it fell back down to earth, in the middle of the forest and all the underbrush...
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Post by dougader on Oct 9, 2020 13:57:52 GMT -5
How about some basic cool kid chemistry ? First you take some household lye and shake some (measure ,,,nah) into a 1 quart glass Coke bottle (remember those ) then add water. Dissolving may require sloshing around and it should be pointed out when that shit gets on ya it will leave a mark for the rest of your life. Anyway you then ball up some balls of tin foil and drop them in . Fast as you can pull a balloon (biggest one you can get )over the top. Seems this rocket science generates something very close to hydrogen at a rather rapid rate. COOL. Young scientists will rapidly get bored just launching balloons across the neighborhood but there can be enough lift for about 2 1/2 feet of slow burning toilet paper fuse . Cool again ,, Now flaming balls of burning balloons can be dropped into neighbors yards! But ,,,,, My balloons (remember I said bigger is better)maxed out early in the lift department. When 3 feet of fuse was tried the balloon merely hovered next to the launchpad person (me) but the breeze did draw the lit fuse straight to the balloon . Whoda thunk it ? I guess weather conditions ARE important. Also it is not a lot of fun going to school with no eyebrows and burn crème on you arm instead of hair. In our 9th grade Science class, Mr. Vert showed us how to boil water and thereby separate out the hydrogen from the oxygen. Then he lit a long lighter, tipped up the edge of the hydrogen-filled little beaker, and a small bluish-burn of hydrogen followed. Well, Scott Wells and I found a huge beaker. I'm guessing it was about 6-8 litres in size.... and we boiled that water, and boiled, and boiled, and boiled.... all the while filling our massive beaker with hydrogen. Hehehehe.... I can't even write this without laughing. It's a good thing the beaker had a wide opening, because when we touched off the hydrogen it was near instantaneous.... a real low, rumbling WHOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! startled the entire, loudly-jabbering class (including Mr. Vert) to silent attention. Scott and I bit our lips to keep from laughing, our eyes bugging out and our backs turned to the class so no one would notice our very guilty expressions..... and there was Mr. Vert, peering over the top of his reading glasses. And then everything went back to normal. Holy mud! If that GLASS beaker had had a small opening, there would have been a nasty explosion of fire and glass all over that science class.
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Post by RDW on Oct 10, 2020 16:43:38 GMT -5
How about some basic cool kid chemistry ? First you take some household lye and shake some (measure ,,,nah) into a 1 quart glass Coke bottle (remember those ) then add water. Dissolving may require sloshing around and it should be pointed out when that shit gets on ya it will leave a mark for the rest of your life. Anyway you then ball up some balls of tin foil and drop them in . Fast as you can pull a balloon (biggest one you can get )over the top. Seems this rocket science generates something very close to hydrogen at a rather rapid rate. COOL. Young scientists will rapidly get bored just launching balloons across the neighborhood but there can be enough lift for about 2 1/2 feet of slow burning toilet paper fuse . Cool again ,, Now flaming balls of burning balloons can be dropped into neighbors yards! But ,,,,, My balloons (remember I said bigger is better)maxed out early in the lift department. When 3 feet of fuse was tried the balloon merely hovered next to the launchpad person (me) but the breeze did draw the lit fuse straight to the balloon . Whoda thunk it ? I guess weather conditions ARE important. Also it is not a lot of fun going to school with no eyebrows and burn crème on you arm instead of hair. In our 9th grade Science class, Mr. Vert showed us how to boil water and thereby separate out the hydrogen from the oxygen. Then he lit a long lighter, tipped up the edge of the hydrogen-filled little beaker, and a small bluish-burn of hydrogen followed. Well, Scott Wells and I found a huge beaker. I'm guessing it was about 6-8 litres in size.... and we boiled that water, and boiled, and boiled, and boiled.... all the while filling our massive beaker with hydrogen. Hehehehe.... I can't even write this without laughing. It's a good thing the beaker had a wide opening, because when we touched off the hydrogen it was near instantaneous.... a real low, rumbling WHOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! startled the entire, loudly-jabbering class (including Mr. Vert) to silent attention. Scott and I bit our lips to keep from laughing, our eyes bugging out and our backs turned to the class so no one would notice our very guilty expressions..... and there was Mr. Vert, peering over the top of his reading glasses. And then everything went back to normal. Holy mud! If that GLASS beaker had had a small opening, there would have been a nasty explosion of fire and glass all over that science class. Ole Hydrogen can be some mean jelly beans cant it Dougader?
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Post by squawberryman on Oct 11, 2020 6:09:11 GMT -5
Spent Co2 cartridge stuffed with match heads after drilling the neck. Rocket igniter inserted with long wire leads to 9 volt battery. Wait until spine clipped squirrel (22 shot) crawls over cartridge, touch leads. Where'd that shrapnel go?
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Post by nicholst55 on Oct 11, 2020 18:04:45 GMT -5
Y'all are a bunch of rank amateurs. Although I was chronologically significantly older than 10, I had an experience with disassembling grenade simulators and repurposing the powder that they contain... On second thought, I had probably best NOT relate that story from my current location. There could still be repercussions (either legal or professional), even though it occurred over 40 years ago!
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Post by needsmostuff on Oct 11, 2020 18:42:36 GMT -5
Y'all are a bunch of rank amateurs. Although I was chronologically significantly older than 10, I had an experience with disassembling grenade simulators and repurposing the powder that they contain... On second thought, I had probably best NOT relate that story from my current location. There could still be repercussions (either legal or professional), even though it occurred over 40 years ago! Well, not grenade simulators but I can tell you an artillery simulator will send an upside down ammo can about 100 feet into the air and it's guaranteed to come down on something expensive. And O Yeah, The lid will never fit on again. Along the same line I did have plenty of experience repurposing Railroad track torpedoes (quite a nice bang ) and Railroad signal fusees (they burn hot enough to burn concrete ) . My Dad was an engineer and thought these might be a good , useful thing to have around the house. Funny , he never could find them where he thought he left them so he'd bring home some more.
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Post by thunderhorse on Oct 11, 2020 20:27:32 GMT -5
Great story! I'm the oldest of three boys growing up in the country on a small horse ranch, and this sounds like stuff we did....using the post driver to launch black powder mortar rounds and getting it jammed in the manure spreader beaters just as dad got home....shooting a crop sprayer helicopter windscreen with a big bottle rocket....my kids don't believe half my stories!
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Post by edk on Oct 12, 2020 7:43:39 GMT -5
Graduated to the more severe stuff as you all did but this thread got me to thinking my tinnitus likely began at around the tender age of 5-6 by slamming whole rolls of red paper cap pistol caps with a hammer. Bang!(ears ring)! I'm sure I'm the only kid that ever did this
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Post by dougader on Oct 12, 2020 13:19:05 GMT -5
I found out there was a difference between black powder and smokeless powder when I broke into my Dad's reloading stash and tried to make a LARGE firecracker with some old DuPont 4350, hahahaha. fffffiiiiiizzzzzzllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeee.... but man, did it burn hot! The rabbit hutch caught on fire! I guess 1/2 pound of 4350 was not enough for a big bang, but too much for the rabbit hutch.
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Post by crazycarl on Oct 12, 2020 16:41:38 GMT -5
I was never any kind of cool kid, but did get suspended from school for a week, in 8th grade chemistry. I'd already blown up a couple test tubes, after tweaking the HCl & crushed sea shells amounts & had discovered potassium permanganate & glycerine. So, my lab partner & I were pouring small amounts of methanol onto the lab tabletops & lighting it. We finally quit goofing around when the teacher walked in & were re-filling our bunsen burner, when Eric drops the glass burner thing on the table & it breaks. I said, "Dude, I'ma light it!" & Eric squeals "No!" & starts furiously wiping up methanol with a paper towel, right as I tossed the match. I swear to you, it woofed & went up like gasoline & scorched the ceiling tiles. Well.... ol' Eric was none too bright & began to attempt to beat out the fire, with the now methanol soaked paper towel he was holding & turned hisself into Eric the human torch & ran squealing around the classroom, holding his hand up like he was carrying the Olympic torch. Teacher put him out quickly enough that he wasn't injured & when I quit laughing, got suspended for the week. Eric? He only caught a 3-day suspension, since he was lighting fires as well.
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