archer_of_leon
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homemade weapons!
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Folks, let's not get into anything that can get kids blown up, burned up, etc. in it's construction or reckless application. Such discussions are fine off-line if you want that info, but it's irresponsible to post it here. Feel free to tell us that you built pyrotechnic, incendiary or explosive devices, but don't provide information on how to do it at THR. Too many kids with too much time on their hands that should learn the hows from a website that specializes in such things instead of here.
hso is very correct in that kids will read here and matches can blow your hand off. I saw it once. Kid lived a mile or so me lost his fingers 40 years ago. If he is still around it's 40 years later and he still has no fingers on one hand. Just something to thnk about.
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In years past we used to take tennis balls and dose them with either lighter fluid or pvc glue, light and throw.
If you ride motorcycles, I have heard that ball bearings kept in the vest pocket, are a good deterrent for tailgaters.
If you ride motorcycles, I have heard that ball bearings kept in the vest pocket, are a good deterrent for tailgaters.
archer_of_leon
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HSO i apologize, feel free to remove my posts....... I agree we dont need to give kids the detais.... Even though they will get it if they want, it shouldnt be from here! But then again we all started kids doing this. And if they want to do it they will.... Once again I apologize
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archer_of_leon,
No apology needed. It's easy to forget that what we survived when we were kids may have had more to do with luck than anything else. Back then we had to work to find out how to do things massively dangerous, but it's too easy today. Heck, when I was 13 (nearly 40 years ago) I brewed an unstable powerful liquid explosive. I was a smart kid. Smart enough to research the methods, gather the chemicals and equipment, find a safe place away from the house and brew it up. What I was NOT was wise enough to have thought through what I was going to do with nearly a half pint of the stuff before I got started. Afterwards was far too late to have thought that through and it lead to some considerable angst when I suddenly realized that I could blow myself and the barn to smithereens if I made even a simple mistake. While I got rid of it (big BOOM, huge geyser, lots of dead fish raining from the sky) without putting anyone at risk, my folks would have been unhappy (my uncle Bill always said he expected to hear that I'd blown the house up
). These days kids don't even have to be moderately smart to google the information off the net and start down the path to blowing off some body part. Perhaps we're impeding natural selection, but I'll sleep better knowing we didn't help filter the gene pool.
No apology needed. It's easy to forget that what we survived when we were kids may have had more to do with luck than anything else. Back then we had to work to find out how to do things massively dangerous, but it's too easy today. Heck, when I was 13 (nearly 40 years ago) I brewed an unstable powerful liquid explosive. I was a smart kid. Smart enough to research the methods, gather the chemicals and equipment, find a safe place away from the house and brew it up. What I was NOT was wise enough to have thought through what I was going to do with nearly a half pint of the stuff before I got started. Afterwards was far too late to have thought that through and it lead to some considerable angst when I suddenly realized that I could blow myself and the barn to smithereens if I made even a simple mistake. While I got rid of it (big BOOM, huge geyser, lots of dead fish raining from the sky) without putting anyone at risk, my folks would have been unhappy (my uncle Bill always said he expected to hear that I'd blown the house up
). These days kids don't even have to be moderately smart to google the information off the net and start down the path to blowing off some body part. Perhaps we're impeding natural selection, but I'll sleep better knowing we didn't help filter the gene pool.Knew an older kid when I was in junior high that had half of his face covered in scar tissue because he tried the hairspray and match flamethrower. That part on the back label about not using it around an open flame is not just a CYA thing...
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Yes, whether we like it or not, Kids like fire, they like booms..... Some would say its the medias fault, or movies , or TV. But in reality some lack common sense, though that is not always the case I know some very smart kids! Still,
would we consider it the aprents fault? The Medias? IDK, why im posting this im just curious on what areas people think we need to work on, so if kids are going to ''exsperiment'' they wont be so wild or crazy about it.. Maybe a new thread should be started on this....
would we consider it the aprents fault? The Medias? IDK, why im posting this im just curious on what areas people think we need to work on, so if kids are going to ''exsperiment'' they wont be so wild or crazy about it.. Maybe a new thread should be started on this....
simple yet fun
I was having a kid try to push me about on me a lot in school i simple got a piece of pipe about 6" long and a 1" diameter and shoved a small deodorant can in the end by taking the spray cap of and using the little metal lip hooked it in place kinda like a homemade mace but i didn't fix it so as he ran i cud fling the can into the back of his head then by wrapping electrical tape round 1 end made for a good after beating and a tighter fit. Very easy to hide up jacket really does hurt a lot perhaps the liquid inside makes it harder or gives it more momentum. (warning make sure it a really snug fit but you can still pop the can out u don't want your can to go flying but u can slip it off if any teachers look a bit to closely also unless you really want to hurt someone no blows to the face i nearly broke this kids jaw which cud have killed him) [ excellent if you got more than 1 guy attaching you] and finally a handy lighter means you can scare them off i also put a larger can in the other end to weight it down but didn't work i recommend experimenting however pipe and can alone make for a great weapon bout 10"long
sorry about bad type was rushing out the front door for work never work night shifts it messes with your brain
I was having a kid try to push me about on me a lot in school i simple got a piece of pipe about 6" long and a 1" diameter and shoved a small deodorant can in the end by taking the spray cap of and using the little metal lip hooked it in place kinda like a homemade mace but i didn't fix it so as he ran i cud fling the can into the back of his head then by wrapping electrical tape round 1 end made for a good after beating and a tighter fit. Very easy to hide up jacket really does hurt a lot perhaps the liquid inside makes it harder or gives it more momentum. (warning make sure it a really snug fit but you can still pop the can out u don't want your can to go flying but u can slip it off if any teachers look a bit to closely also unless you really want to hurt someone no blows to the face i nearly broke this kids jaw which cud have killed him) [ excellent if you got more than 1 guy attaching you] and finally a handy lighter means you can scare them off i also put a larger can in the other end to weight it down but didn't work i recommend experimenting however pipe and can alone make for a great weapon bout 10"long
sorry about bad type was rushing out the front door for work never work night shifts it messes with your brain
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Good for you?
trueblue1776
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is that Nigerian pidgin speak?
As many people have pointed out, young boys are attracted to fire and things that go boom. It's just one of those things that fascinates until you do it a few times. I think that with most kids, once they learn how to make such devises, blow a few up and have a little "fun"(?), they move on to something else. I've noticed that for those who posted about their young experiences on such matters, it's all in past tense. They generally don't do it anymore. You get interested in it, learn as much as you can, make a few things and rattle a few windows and for the most part, that's it. As is generally the consensus, "boys will be boys". With that in mind I believe it better for those so inclined to at least get such information from people who HAVE done it, rather than from some idiot who just spreads half-truths and misinformation that can be far more dangerous. This way they can learn from other's past mistakes, hear a few horror stories about missing digits and worse, and find out the safe (or rather safer) way to go about messing with such stuff.
reppondj
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When I was younger I used to keep a 18" piece of 00 copper wire under my vehicle seat, stiff yet flexible, hard as nails and not at all illegal nor does it even look like a weapon....then again, one of the worst beatings I ever say anyone get was with a radio antenna ripped off the hood...........I guess where I am going with this is dont get wrapped up on gadgets, either storebought or home made.......they will almost always fail when you need them the most.......learn what is around you every day, what you can use, how you can use it........then surprise will truly be your friend.
Nice post, reppondj.
Just out of curiousity, does anyone happen to know a source for high intensity UV sources? Not so much a weapon as something to play with in conjunction with my 10.5 KV coil. I stumbled across an ooooold article about directional discharge coils, and I'd like to give her a go.
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Hso, is this anecdote OK? I think it's apropos the subtopic of "things kids were lucky to survive.."
My thesis advisor grew up in Poland in the 1950's. They had safety lectures in school, sorta like the ones firemen give in US schools about fire safety--but these were about unexploded WWII ordnance, which was literally thick on the ground there.
He said, "They showed a movie to warn us how children would get themselves killed playing with that stuff. The movie taught my brother and I two things: the first was how dangerous it could be; and the second was how you go about making it blow up." They went into the woods and found a mortar shell, which they brought home and, um, put in the kitchen (dangerous details omitted).
He said, "It was just like in the movie! We waited for ten seconds... thirty seconds... one minute... five minutes... and nothing happened. And just like the movie, our little sister wanted to go see. That's just how the children in the movie get killed! So we stopped her--but we had to hold her down and sit on her, or she would go in and look. Twenty minutes went by, and we knew that soon our parents would be home from work and we'd have to tell them..."
"Then thirty minutes went by, and finally BOOM! It blew the entire roof off the kitchen. We were so relieved! When our parents came home they didn't say a word. They just sat on the ground and stared at the kitchen, while we said, 'We don't know what happen! We come home from school, play in the yard, and suddenly BOOM!"
--Len.
My thesis advisor grew up in Poland in the 1950's. They had safety lectures in school, sorta like the ones firemen give in US schools about fire safety--but these were about unexploded WWII ordnance, which was literally thick on the ground there.
He said, "They showed a movie to warn us how children would get themselves killed playing with that stuff. The movie taught my brother and I two things: the first was how dangerous it could be; and the second was how you go about making it blow up." They went into the woods and found a mortar shell, which they brought home and, um, put in the kitchen (dangerous details omitted).
He said, "It was just like in the movie! We waited for ten seconds... thirty seconds... one minute... five minutes... and nothing happened. And just like the movie, our little sister wanted to go see. That's just how the children in the movie get killed! So we stopped her--but we had to hold her down and sit on her, or she would go in and look. Twenty minutes went by, and we knew that soon our parents would be home from work and we'd have to tell them..."
"Then thirty minutes went by, and finally BOOM! It blew the entire roof off the kitchen. We were so relieved! When our parents came home they didn't say a word. They just sat on the ground and stared at the kitchen, while we said, 'We don't know what happen! We come home from school, play in the yard, and suddenly BOOM!"
--Len.
Len,
No problem with that.
There have been kids injured and killed with UXO and small arms ammo (small being something other than what you and I would think of) in the US in the past couple of years because no one realized what the consequences of mishandling it could really be.
No problem with that.
There have been kids injured and killed with UXO and small arms ammo (small being something other than what you and I would think of) in the US in the past couple of years because no one realized what the consequences of mishandling it could really be.
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Hi all,
I heard from a friend that if done correctly thermatie will burn though the hood of a car, and that it will even burn though the concrete beneath the car... Is this true, also I know how to make it (I won't state it) but does anyone know a good ignition source as it only burns at 1000 degrees or higher I believe.
I heard from a friend that if done correctly thermatie will burn though the hood of a car, and that it will even burn though the concrete beneath the car... Is this true, also I know how to make it (I won't state it) but does anyone know a good ignition source as it only burns at 1000 degrees or higher I believe.
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Magnesium ribbon
p35
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Check Youtube, but let's not get into starting thermite fires here.
trueblue1776
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agreed, thermite is a parlor trick of basic chemistry, this thread is about homemade weapons!
loandr.
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What do you get when the Wife leaves you....
Standing between Home Depot and Petsmart while she goes to try on shoes ????? I call it "The BIG K.I.S.S" Keeping It Real Simple, Stupid....Short leather dog lead handle with 360 swivel snap hook from PM, and 12 Oz. Winch Hook from the hardware section of HD, Hook tucks neatly into back pocket of jeans and leather dangles accordingly for quick access...total cost $4.99 (OH plus the $170 Bucks on shoes) BUT seeing her eyes light up when she saw what I had snapped together in the few moments of her absence Just made it all seem right Enjoy...
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Standing between Home Depot and Petsmart while she goes to try on shoes ????? I call it "The BIG K.I.S.S" Keeping It Real Simple, Stupid....Short leather dog lead handle with 360 swivel snap hook from PM, and 12 Oz. Winch Hook from the hardware section of HD, Hook tucks neatly into back pocket of jeans and leather dangles accordingly for quick access...total cost $4.99 (OH plus the $170 Bucks on shoes) BUT seeing her eyes light up when she saw what I had snapped together in the few moments of her absence Just made it all seem right Enjoy...
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sorry and just my opinion BUT that is one F--ked up site my friend. I know knowledge is power BUT where does one draw the line I ask?
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