[Hank Rearden]

I remember having a toy pistol with those red rolls of pockets of black powder, you had to put the roll under the hammer of the gun and it made a little pop sound and if you were really lucky a tiny puff of smoke.

We ditched the guns once we figured out how to make real noise:

- Unroll a roll of caps
- Zig-zag thread them onto a needle, poking the point of the needle through the middle of each powder pocket, resulting in an square accordion of caps with holes down the middle
- Remove needle
- Compress the accordion of caps into the smallest cube you can, and wrap with cellophane tape to hold together
- Put a drop of airplane glue on top, light and run!

Very loud noise and much hilarity results after the entire roll of caps explodes at once.

Feel free to share with the next generation, so the technology isn't lost forever.

[Conservababe]

You are bad but we should pass it on. LOL

[ChefKeith]

You used to hang out with Squantos as a kid, right?

[printhead]

Just don't pull the pin out too fast though. Been there, done that, black fingers and all.

[2111USMC]

We did it an easier way.

Place a whole roll of caps on the concrete (standing like a wheel).

Give it a good hard smack with a hammer!

[vetvetdoug]

I was a little more on the brutal side. Just take the whole roll of caps, place upon an anvil and hit the entire roll with a ball peen hammer. If that didn't ring one's bell, nothing did.

[diverteach]

that sure seems like a lotta work. We'd simply set a whole roll on the ground then knock it with the butt end of a baseball bat and they'd explode all at once.

[El Gato]

That's too much work. Just hit the entire roll with a hammer.

Especially effective inside the garage!