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To: Zeneta

No.

When we were kids we did something better.

We sawed the tip of the cartridge off with a hacksaw.
Then we cut the heads off about 5 - 6 books of paper matches and stuffed them inside.

The last match you leave whole and put in backward - that’s the fuse.

When lit, the matches inside combust, but the gas is trapped by the paper residue - up to a point. When the critical gas mass is achieved it blows out the stuff from the cartridge and makes a dandy little rocket.

We got some of them to fly over 100 feet.


31 posted on 02/04/2014 12:16:28 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

Never did that and I’m now thinking I haven’t lived.

Yes, I’ve done some crazy stuff.

Thrown rocks at live .22 shells. they went off.

Put a firecracker in a frogs butt.

Had running street battles with roman candles and garbage can lids as shields.

Hot wired a number of bulldozers.

Went 4 wheeling high on PCP, when I was warned not too.

Drove my 69 Chevy Nova with three Budweiser’s poured into my transmission. That was insane.


33 posted on 02/04/2014 12:35:13 PM PST by Zeneta
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