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To: Mastador1
I'd like to know what the chemicals were before passing judgment. In my wayward youth I tried many unsuccessful gunpowder making experiments and did build a successful cannon from 3/4” pipe that used match heads for a propellant. Indeed, I could have turned it into a pipe bomb just by capping both ends and using a fire cracker for a detonator. The gunpower experiments failed because I measured the ingredients by volume, not weight, and I used impure charcoal briquettes instead of the pure thing. I make this confession now because what I did was legal at the time and any statute of limitations has expired
46 posted on 12/30/2012 3:14:05 PM PST by libstripper
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To: libstripper

Hehe. We used match-heads too. Loaded them into empty ballpoint pens and sent them flying around the room like mini-kassams. Then suffered the effects of sulphur smoke; no voice for a couple hours.


50 posted on 12/30/2012 3:26:43 PM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: libstripper

what I did was legal at the time and any statute of limitations has expired

ok but just to be sure we need to put you on the do not fly or go to a school zone list/s


56 posted on 12/30/2012 3:34:18 PM PST by rolling_stone
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