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When I was much younger.

Pipe electronic ignition black powder.

Worked decent enough

49 posted on 07/08/2022 3:16:06 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)

A lot of young crazy guys, myself included, make big firecrackers.

We would take a thick cardboard tube, drill two small holes in it, pass a bare wire through the holes, put some gunpowder in from a bunch of smaller fireworks (tediously breaking them in half and spilling out the gunpowder) bondo both ends and the wire holes, lay out a bunch of wire, hook to the bare wires with alligator clips, then (AND ONLY THEN) go to the other end of the wire and use the battery.

I don’t think I am giving away any state secrets here. It safely produced a satisfying bang bigger than we were accustomed to.

180 posted on 07/08/2022 5:01:42 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)