Dangerous Business

In the seriousness of the internet I ran across this journal entry.

So it got me thinking. How many people here at GFF has dabbled around with bombs (pipe or otherwise), explosives, fire (pyromaniacs?), flash powder, thermite, or other items of a generally hazardous nature?

Personally I have never really "played" around with those things but this not to say that I don't have experience with them. I was a combat engineer in the army so I have a healthy respect for explosives.

So what has been your experience with this sort of potentially mayhem invoking goods, good or bad?

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Whoa! I feel happy. My journal entry invoked a thread. Wicked.

I think the coolest thing I've ever done involved aerosel shoe spray, and WD40, and a popcan. The shoe spray was some kind of stuff that the shoe store gave me for my suede shoes to make them waterproof. but anyhow. I sprayed a whole bunch of it into the popcan, and then a whole bunch of WD40(basic lubricant). Then I shook it all up. After letting it sit for awhile, I lit a match overtop the opening. If let sitting long enough, enough fumes can build up so you can get at least a 3 inch jet of flame shooting out. The can gets all cold. After the initial jettison, there is now a nice calm flame burning at the top of the hole. It'll burn for a really really long time if you let it.

I loved living in the country. I could get away with lots.

This one time, when I was younger, and alot more curious about fire. I took a can of gasoline, and poured a line of it down the length of my driveway. Then I lit it on fire. So cool in my opinion. But then I had to run along trying to put it out. Somehow my mom never noticed the blackened gravel on the driveway when she got home from work. =D

Last thing was my propane powered potato cannon. If you've got an idea of what this is. I basically made the same thing, except instead of aerosel, I used propane. Worked really well actually. Until the thing exploded. Didn't seal one part good enough. Lost a good number of arm hairs that day.

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My driveway has a hole bored into the ground and reinforced with a metal pipe, placed there for locking the gate. Why the hole goes down so far (or even how far it actually goes) I don't know, but I one day got the idea to drop some lit fireworks down there and see what would happen.

Unfortunately, it wasn't all that spectacular. Either it was so far down and so well-sealed that there wasn't enough oxygen to burn, or maybe the stuff I dropped landed upside-down. These were just sparkler/fountain type things, nothing explosive. Come to think of it, though, it would make a great launch pad for bottle rockets.

The one cool thing that did happen was with the smoke balls. Instead of creating a giant plume of smoke that induces coughing and sputtering and infuses one's clothes with that wonderful sulfury smell, the smoke slowly crept up the pipe and kinda "leaked" out the top for a good 2 minutes or so. Looked like an aerial shot of a smoke signal or something.

When it was all over we dropped some of the really bright "strobe" flashers down the pipe to try and incinerate whatever was left.

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I'm pretty amateur, but I love a good fire. The worst I've pulled is throwing an entire box of fireworks into a campfire at around midnight in a state park.

I could not contain my laughter. And the brightness of the fire was so brilliant, it was like this prolonged lightning streak. It lit the trees and surrounding areas aglow, as though the fire was the sun.

You can not imagine both my FEAR and my GLEE.

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I'm pretty tame. I lit a few cotton balls on fire once. it was freaking awesome, but I try not to mess with fire too much

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I didn't do much either in regards to be creative with explosives. The craziest thing I remember doing (or took part in) was gathering about 8~10 pounds worth of those red firecrackers and placing them in a plastic bucket. Tossed a couple flaming sparklers and soon after gazed in awe of a glowing... and loud as hell melting plastic bucket. I think it lasted a good minute or so.
At least the mess was easy to clean up!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I knew some guys that thought it would be cool to shoot a propane tank out in the forest. It wasn’t a small tank either, about the size of something you would power a full sized BBQ grill with. The idiots recorded it too. It was actually pretty stupid cool and incredibly loud. The only thing I've heard that was louder would probably be a claymore mine.

As for myself I'll be testing a .50 BMG military barrel once I get the breech lock built for it. That is going to be cool.

So none of you have ever smashed up a Piccolo Petes (loud obnoxious firework) to make it go boom? I figured every little kid did at least something like that.

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