Testing Chinese firecrackers

[CrusaderFrank]

Are you effing kidding?

 

[White 6]

Are you effing kidding?

That's what firecrackers are supposed to be. Those even make M80s from the 1960s and 70s tame by comparison, and back then you could blow any mailbox apart and possibly take off some mail box post with those bad boys, using a cigarette for a time fuse.

 

[Yarddog]

Are you effing kidding?

That frying pan gonna kill sombody!

 

[The Irish Ram]

That's what firecrackers are supposed to be. Those even make M80s from the 1960s and 70s tame by comparison, and back then you could blow any mailbox apart and possibly take off some mail box post with those bad boys, using a cigarette for a time fuse.

My brother and I would twist the wicks of 4 M80s or cherry bombs together and blow all kinds of shit up.

 

[GLASNOST]

Are you effing kidding?

Where I come from those are calld "rockets".

 

[Grau]

That's what firecrackers are supposed to be. Those even make M80s from the 1960s and 70s tame by comparison, and back then you could blow any mailbox apart and possibly take off some mail box post with those bad boys, using a cigarette for a time fuse.

While I'm sure that your knowledge of what M-80s do to mailboxes was gained rely from what you've read, I share your disappointment at their current illegal status.

From what I remember, M-80s were originally for use by the US Military to simulate combat conditions during training.
The "M" stands for Military and the original M-80 had 80 grains of flash powder, not gunpowder; there's a difference in that gunpowder is more stable.

Because I'm a blacksmith and have different types of powder, I reload my own ammunition for target practice, it only made sense to make a medium sized cannon and try out different propellants.

A chamber full of oxygen and Acetylene produced a lively explosion blowing a 10" diameter hole in a piece of 3/4" thick plywood but was inconsistent as a regular propellant.

I do not recommend using it except for cutting steel.

I finally found that black powder compressed in an old pill bottle with a few inches of cannon fuse worked as an excellent charge for propelling frozen potatoes, old flashlight batteries, and gravel wrapped in aluminum foil as a "shotgun load".

Naturally, I don't recommend trying these things at home because different loads have different pressures, not all steel is of the same quality and, finally, Murphy's law.

Enjoy,

 

[JGalt]

Are you effing kidding?

Ho Lee Fuk!

 

[American Eagle]

I wonder if any of those can hit a low flying plane.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

That's what firecrackers are supposed to be. Those even make M80s from the 1960s and 70s tame by comparison, and back then you could blow any mailbox apart and possibly take off some mail box post with those bad boys, using a cigarette for a time fuse.

Yes cherry bombs and M80 back in the lates 60's and 70

 

[Grau]

Yes cherry bombs and M80 back in the lates 60's and 70

If I remember correctly the M-80 was supposed to have 80 grains of flash powder, the "Silver Keg" had 60 grains and the Cherry Bombs had 40 grains.

A "Mad Scientist" friend of mine used to fill tennis balls with an Ammonium Nitrate & etc and used cannon fuse to set it off.

And then, there's Tannerite, a binary, reactive explosive that is detonated by rifle fire and legal in many places.

So, as you can see, there are numerous ways that you can terrify the neighbors, damage your hearing and possibly go to jail.

Have fun.

 

[White 6]

My brother and I would twist the wicks of 4 M80s or cherry bombs together and blow all kinds of shit up.

Great fun, and we all have all our fingers and eyesight.
Lived in Paducah. Very cold winter temps at times. I and my two older brothers were the ones that cleared snow off driveway and kept fish pool ice broken up. Dad and older brothers did really good job making it, heavy wire mesh, 4inch concrete floor, 5-6 inch walls to resist the ice, so we only had to really worry about the shallow end, as the deep end almost completely below ground on the side of the hill. Big Freeze, temps below zero. Dad ordered the ice broken up before he got home from work. Ice 4 inches plus thick and hard as a rock. Pic and sledge very hard work in biting cold. My brother had real old school M-80s. Picked fist size hole in ice, used 2, twisted together, lit and shoved under the ice. It worked, of course, huge chunks of ice going everywhere, but put a large crack in shallow end wall above ground level, down to bottom and close to 10 feet across bottom, almost to the deep pit where the coy stayed in winter. I think we all remember the butt beating punctuating his telling us just how stupid we were, how we were to break ice in the future and how in the spring we were going to tear out and rebuild, mom's coy pool.

 

[White 6]

While I'm sure that your knowledge of what M-80s do to mailboxes was gained rely from what you've read, I share your disappointment at their current illegal status.

From what I remember, M-80s were originally for use by the US Military to simulate combat conditions during training.
The "M" stands for Military and the original M-80 had 80 grains of flash powder, not gunpowder; there's a difference in that gunpowder is more stable.

Because I'm a blacksmith and have different types of powder, I reload my own ammunition for target practice, it only made sense to make a medium sized cannon and try out different propellants.

A chamber full of oxygen and Acetylene produced a lively explosion blowing a 10" diameter hole in a piece of 3/4" thick plywood but was inconsistent as a regular propellant.

I do not recommend using it except for cutting steel.

I finally found that black powder compressed in an old pill bottle with a few inches of cannon fuse worked as an excellent charge for propelling frozen potatoes, old flashlight batteries, and gravel wrapped in aluminum foil as a "shotgun load".

Naturally, I don't recommend trying these things at home because different loads have different pressures, not all steel is of the same quality and, finally, Murphy's law.

Enjoy,

We also experimented with acetylene using Calcium Carbide, water and gallon cider bottle, quickly capped with a kerosene burning rag, and set on fence post. Then we judged the proper time to shoot with .22 for best effect. Pretty specular at night.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Are you effing kidding?

Gotta say, that's one hell of a pot! Where can I get one of THOSE!?

 

[whitehall]

Do we still trust everything on the internet? I didn't open it because I never open the virus on these things. Something called "coolreels4u" ain't zlacky an information source.

 

[hondo 50]

I'll take a case.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Gotta say, that's one hell of a pot! Where can I get one of THOSE!?

Made in Japan

 

[ThisIsMe]

Made in Japan

Thing sure took a beating!

 

[Grau]

We also experimented with acetylene using Calcium Carbide, water and gallon cider bottle, quickly capped with a kerosene burning rag, and set on fence post. Then we judged the proper time to shoot with .22 for best effect. Pretty specular at night.

Sounds like great fun.

I think that an empty, plastic gallon milk jug would be a little safer and you wouldn't have to clean up broken glass.

Have you had a chance to play with Tannerite? I don't know if a .22 is sufficient to detonate Tannerite so you may need a higher velocity round.

Enjoy,