renault12ts
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A box of matches and a couple of large bolts.Get me the ingredients, and I could knock you up a very basic pipe bomb tomorrow.
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A box of matches and a couple of large bolts.Get me the ingredients, and I could knock you up a very basic pipe bomb tomorrow.
2750 tonnes!!2.7 Tons of Ammunium Nitrate, according to a recent report.... and the blast was heard in Cyprus, 150 miles away.
We did that. I remember one going off whilst the assembler was still screwing the parts together. No ill effects...but a surprised look on his mug!As a very young child I would make these things:
2 short bolts, one nut and a few match heads.
Screw one bolt into the nut by one turn, fill the cavity with as many match heads as would fit, carefully screw the other bolt onto the nut.
Throw up in the air and wait for the bang.
Yep..... #142750 tonnes!!
Boys will be boysQuite strange all these stories of what we used to get up to in our early years.
We used to make acetylene bag bombs full of paper strips and would set these off next to parked up boy racer/courting couples in places like the Castle. They made quite a flash and a bang.
For apprentices we would be always frightening them with things like slow charging capacitors that would blow or giving them shocks with EHT.
Seems mad now, we would be locked up or sacked on the spot if we got up to such stuff.
...This article from the BBC estimates the size of the explosion to be about 10% of the Hiroshima bomb....
I had seen that, hence my comment. Forgot the nod. Sorted...See post #15
Wow - that declaration reminds me of a CCF summer camp near Shrewesbury.I have no Live Rounds, Empty Cartridge Cases or Pyrotechnics in my Possession, SIR!
Wow - that declaration reminds me of a CCF summer camp near Shrewesbury.
We we’re each given 1/2 lb of PE4, a detonator and some fuse (around 1 minutes burn)
The instructor first set light to some PE4 to demonstrate that you could cook with it.
We then each made a small PE4 explosive by kneading it into a ball, placing the detonator in the middle and then putting the fuse in the centre of the detonator.
We then took it in turns to walk into the quarry like area - put it down, light the fuse and calmly walk back.
We were then all instructed to look towards the explosion - rather than turn our backs - to look out for flying debris coming our way!
At the end - the instructor made us all take an explosives declaration.
”I have no live explosives or accessories in my possession, sir”
Those were the days!!!!
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