I wasn’t much older than that when we decided that acetylene bombs were cool and turning that old car into a really big acetylene bomb would be really cool.
The jury is still out on whether that was a good idea or not.
I always wanted a “Big Bang Carbide Cannon” as a kid. Nice way to control your acetylene explosions. Never got one, though.
I know you are old and passed that stage but here’s how it is done.
Take a can with a snap in lid........ a paint can and punch a hole in the side near the top.
Add a few carbide rocks and a little water. Pound in the lid and place the can on the ground lid side down
Light the hole. (be sure to not stand directly over the soon to be elevated can)
Well... was it as cool as it sounds? Who cares if it was a good idea or not!
LLS
Thermite pipe bombs....Wow did they blow!
Once upon a time, making a boom was a sort of right of passage, certainly not against the law like it is now.
Older Britannica’s give very good directions for several types of H.E.
If my kids did what I, and my father before me, did...
But we are all so much safer in 2011 than 1980, don’t you know.
Yes, but you didn’t plan on using that knowledge to take out as many innocent U.S. Citizens as you could.