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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: schmendict on January 17, 2006, 07:14:48 PM
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While scrolling through my edition of the Anarchists Cookbook, i noticed an extract about match rockets. Having remembered these from my Backyard Ballistics book, i decided to give it a shot.
And give it a shot i did.
Match rockets are awesome, haha, they just fizz and shoot like hell. Unfortunately, _tom_'s and Indyrocks just fizzled and died. They must have been doing something wrong...
Heres a pic of mine going "BLAM".
Has anyone else had experiences with home-brew pyrotechnics?
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lol excellent.
actually i have recently discovered a cool way of launching matches at people. it may be old news to you but if you hold a matchbox with the 'lighting' surface upwards, then position a match with it's head on the 'lighting' surface and hold it there with the thumb/ finger that is holding the matchbox, you can then get your free hand, flick the match and it flies through the air burning as it goes!!!! it's so cool it's like a mini cannon thing. as well as just the awesomeness of firing matches, it's also really good to scare people with- sending a burning match past their ear is great fun.
that explanation is pretty horrible but basicalyl you have to hold the box AND keep the match in position with ONE hand so that you have a free hand to flick it. but like i said this may be old news to you.
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mine suck! i cant make them fly-
maybe i need better foil?
as for experiences with homebrew pyrotechnics, i made a bomb out of the insides of party poppers once. it was new years eve evening, and it set fire to a carpet in a hotel - and i got chucked out. my parents yelled. i giggled.
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I dont know why yours dont work very well indy, i make sure mine have an immensly tight exhaust pipe made my wrapping up a pin with the stick, then removing the pin. This greatly increases the velocity.
So much so that here i have two pics.
One of them is the rig before ignition.
The other is 1/30th of a second later.
They go very, very fast.
:Edit: It seems that the first picture is below the second.
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Play with fire and Ye Shall Get Burnt!!!!
Be warned, LOL
That said, was abit of a firestarter back in the day.
COurse, now in US get to carry a gun and all and really cause havoc LOL!
Amazing what fun you can have shooting beer cans (shaken), gas cans (semi full) with a semi-auto 9mm ROFLMAO
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lol excellent.
actually i have recently discovered a cool way of launching matches at people. it may be old news to you but if you hold a matchbox with the 'lighting' surface upwards, then position a match with it's head on the 'lighting' surface and hold it there with the thumb/ finger that is holding the matchbox, you can then get your free hand, flick the match and it flies through the air burning as it goes!!!! it's so cool it's like a mini cannon thing. as well as just the awesomeness of firing matches, it's also really good to scare people with- sending a burning match past their ear is great fun.
that explanation is pretty horrible but basicalyl you have to hold the box AND keep the match in position with ONE hand so that you have a free hand to flick it. but like i said this may be old news to you.
I was doing this earlier hahah sooo much more fun than matchstick rockets. I dont know whats so satisfying about it but theres something!
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exactly lol. i mean i actually have no idea what the rocket things are but they seem to require too much effort- i mean its so much easier to just flick away and watch that fire fly! :twisted:
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exactly lol. i mean i actually have no idea what the rocket things are but they seem to require too much effort- i mean its so much easier to just flick away and watch that fire fly! :twisted:
yup, one time my mate did it and it set fire to this girls hair, that wasnt so funny, maybe it would've been if she wasnt so hot 8) quite litteraly hot come to think of it :lol:
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haha excellent :D :twisted:
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once when i'd broke my arm i had a cast on, and i set fire to it in a physics lesson with the bunsen burner. it was funny til i couldnt put it out :lol:
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hahaha!
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I remember match flicking back in the day, and stupidly enough, deodorant flame throwers. One thing that was safer and more "intresting" was spraying patterns on concrete pavements then quickly lighting them, it looked ace. And road cones, spraying the inside of those then lighting the end, it made a big "whoomb" noise and shot a jet of flame out! Ah, being a teenager wasn't so bad thinking about it. :lol:
That said, I would advise fire playing with to be done very rarely if you really must do such things, I know warning people is pointness because I was warned and never listened... lads'll be lads and all that. It's better to just say "if you're gonna bugger around with things like that be bloody careful!".
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lol thanks for the advice mr.phil.
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loosly related. reminds me of one summer many years back when we found our way into the british rail store room near our local station. now they were doing quite a bit of maintenece on the line and this store room literally had HUNDREDS of small line detonators (the idea was that the rail worker put some on the line so that they could hear the bang to let them know that the train was a comin).
what we decided to do with the first fifty or so was to string them out in a straight line along the track some 4-5 feet apart. with the second dose, we emptied the gunpowder from those out into a neat pile and placed it on a bit of wood next to the final detonator (well actually it was two in a row 'just in case'). well, when the next train came thundering through, it sounded like a machine gun going off, followed by the most almighty bang. we almost sh$t ourselves - and we KNEW what was going on...
ahhh - to be 16 again :)
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sounds niiiiice. but i doubt you'd be able to do that nowadays- security is probly a lot tighter at places like rail stations.
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sounds niiiiice. but i doubt you'd be able to do that nowadays- security is probly a lot tighter at places like rail stations.
yes, well we are talking 1976-77 ish :oops:
ahh, sweet times indeed... :twisted:
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yer lol ironic isnt it- you wish you were 16 again now, but i wish i was your age so i could have been 16 'back in the day' lol.
it would have been excellent- all the great bands and plenty of freedom to muck about! it's not fair theres too many rules and regulations now.
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The other one we used to play about with was the blanks out of Hilti guns (nail guns).
Those made a hell of a bang on the railway track.
Meanwhile for a more socially constructive play with things that go bang try the hydrogen bomb listed here.
http://www.sci-toys.com/index.html
Infact almost everything there is fun to play with.
Rob...
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yer lol ironic isnt it- you wish you were 16 again now, but i wish i was your age so i could have been 16 'back in the day' lol.
it would have been excellent- all the great bands and plenty of freedom to muck about! it's not fair theres too many rules and regulations now.
+1 :lol:
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lol thanks for the site rob.
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The other one we used to play about with was the blanks out of Hilti guns (nail guns).
Those made a hell of a bang on the railway track.
Meanwhile for a more socially constructive play with things that go bang try the hydrogen bomb listed here.
http://www.sci-toys.com/index.html
Infact almost everything there is fun to play with.
Rob...
I know what I'll be doing this weekend! :lol:
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hahaha! im about to try the match rocket-ing now. be back soon with my results lol.
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I know what I'll be doing this weekend! :lol:
I know what I'm doing at the weekend too but as it dosn't involve sex or live music I feel no desire to rush towards it
Rob...
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lol rob your a funny guy.
anyone know a good household store of paper clips??? I CANT FIND ONE ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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lol rob your a funny guy.
anyone know a good household store of paper clips??? I CANT FIND ONE ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Free postits, paperclips, envelopes and elastic bands are why many of us actually go to work.
Ryman, or just the local corner shop should be a reasionable secondary (secondary because you have to pay) source of paperclips.
Rob...
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lol haha you really do make me chuckle rob.
well i doubt any corner shops are open right now.
also, ryman??
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I made a bomb out of matcheads and foil, as i wanted something bigger than match rockets.
http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=33XM6DFKKCPT03OR6SOD1B033B
This download might expire soon, so go go go!!!
These are two pictures, one is the mushroom cloud after the first, smaller explosion, the other is a white out from the explosion that followed.
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downloading the vid now. this better be good dude its 35 mb
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oooooooh that was classs!!!! how did you contain the fire you maniac???!?!?!!??! was it like in a flower pot or something???
how exactly did you do it i wanna try that.
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Your poor parents. I am glad my eldest son has left home and his younger brother lives with his mum if it means I get to keep my house.
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Luckily, im a smart 14 year old. I had a wet flannel and a bucket of water on hand, it was placed on top of an airgun pellet tin. The carpet will not burn instantly as it is way too dense after years of walking wear.
It is contructed via crumbling many match heads into a pile in the middle of some foil. Roll the ball up TIGHT. Contruct a lattice out of matches, which is basically this shape #. Light the ends of the lattice so there is a flame burning inwards to the foil ball, which should have been placed in the middle of the lattice.
Then run away.
Fast.
Im going to make a bigger one someday...
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excellent thanks
by the way, even us slightly less intelligent 14 year olds do actually know what a lattice is! :P