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Mini weekend project

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tom osselton:
When we were kid's we use to stuff 22 shells with match heads crimp the end and smash with hammer. ... Looking back sheesh!  :Doh:  Or take 303 shells apart for the cordite.

SwarfnStuff:
Hi All, Like Tom I used to stuff 22 shells with match heads and crimp them. One day my friend and I  put two on the tram track and waited. BLAM BANG, The tram brakes slammed on and the poor dirver got out to see what he had hit or what had blown up. Two boys sitting on the fence trying not to laugh. Oh and what about two half inch bolts part threaded into one nut with the gap between stuffed with match heads. Tossed at the brick wall. Amazingly I still have all my fingers, eyes, etc.

tom osselton:
We never used the bolt method we had those plastic bomb shaped ones you know the ones with the spring loaded nose that the caps go under.

shipto:
I used to use an old wardrobe key with 2 or 3 match heads and a bit of lead fishing shot. frighten my mom half to death once  :lol:

Fergus OMore:
A carbide gun? Made with the remains from  miners' acetylene lamps and put into a bottle and pissed in and corked.

There was one bright spark who couldn't find a proper bottle and used a screwcap one- True!

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