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Estes rockets with cherry bombs glued fuse down on the ejection charge provided tons of fun and honed our skills at timed fuses and calculating flight paths


51 posted on 11/24/2020 1:11:32 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Estes rockets with cherry bombs glued fuse down on the ejection charge provided tons of fun and honed our skills at timed fuses and calculating flight paths
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We screwed a cap on one end of a short length of 1/2-in. galvanized
pipe. Lighting the fuse of a 2-in. salute, we dropped it into the
open end of the pipe and a marble on top and had a cannon.

We could easily hit the tin roof of a house a block away.


68 posted on 11/24/2020 1:41:46 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Rightwing Conspiratorial Clinger Deplorable Chump.)
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