How did I not know about this as a kid???

[Rob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFyKgmnCF-8

[Truck Guy]

:cool1:

[CertInsaneC5]

Kid hell. :Jeff '79: However I am getting a feeling it would be a bad idea to use these a work. :leaving:

[MrPeabody]

We weren't quite that sophisticated, but we used to make something like that when I was a kid. We used the foil from gumstick wrappers. Much lighter than aluminum foil. We fashioned a launch ramp out of a paper clip.

[09CTSV]

And to think how this would play out working in an aluminum plant.

[99 pewtercoupe]

Ultimate cube wars! Who needs that Think Geek stuff

[lspencer534]

OP, I don't know why you're just learning about these, but I've been making them for lots of years. They are fun!

[Jeff '79]

Ha! :cool1:

[OldSarge]

Made a few of those in my day, got a few burnt fingers to go with it.

[LATB]

I know what I'm doing this weekend. :Jeff '79:

[simpleman68]

Good fun for sure. :seasix:

My brother and I used to do all kinds of crazy stuff with the old Estes kits and motors.

We spent some time trying to perfect a zip lock bag filled with a little gas and stuck in the body of the rocket.
Then we stuck a wood stick in the nose cone to hit on impact. Didn't work out quite as well as we hoped but was still fun. :Jeff '79:
Scott

[VITE1]

I use to make those all the time as a kid. Learned a few other things and ways to make things go boom.

[LATB]

I use to make those all the time as a kid. Learned a few other things and ways to make things go boom.

We used to make tennis ball cannons out of soda pop cans. :seasix:

[VITE1]

We used to make tennis ball cannons out of soda pop cans. :seasix:

My Dad and Uncle taught me how to make Field expedient explosives.

It was great growing up with retired Marines.

[LATB]

My Dad and Uncle taught me how to make Field expedient explosives.

It was great growing up with retired Marines.

Yes. My dad is a Marine war vet. Taught me about explosives and firearms. But also taught me respect and beat my ass when I was shooting birds for the F of it.

[Craig]

I knew...I grew up in Detroit.

[SQUIRMIN VERMIN 84]

There are a lot of those projects on the cheap on that guy's website....
Fun to make and cheap to build. I like the air, water or vacuum pump..

[VITE1]

Yes. My dad is a Marine war vet. Taught me about explosives and firearms. But also taught me respect and beat my ass when I was shooting birds for the F of it.

:iagree:

[onedef92]

McGyver like a mofo!

[Rob]

I have attached the template for anyone that wants to make these :seasix:

[Kevin_73]

When I was a kid we made matchstick rockets, but ours were more like bottle rockets. We just wrapped aluminum foil around the head of the match and used a paper clip (or something similar) to form a channel between the foil and the matchstick.
When the match lit off the channel was the path of least resistance for the hot gasses, so they shot down, and propelled the whole thing upward, just like a bottle rocket.
I bet the design Dixie posted has better range, and accuracy than the ones that we made though.

[99 pewtercoupe]

We used to make tennis ball cannons out of soda pop cans. :seasix:

BTDT :seasix:

[mrvette]

Yawl been 'round decades ago when a buddy and I set off some very MAJOR shit behind Dad's woodpile, buried deep in the dirt and backfilled....

you wooden believe it, suffice to say, nucking futz......3/4? inch pipe bombs made from gunpowder, primers, major shit, What ever we had.....

the concussions we caused would cause the Wash DC region to go into total lockdown these daze.....

much less do it on NIH property in Bethesda Md.....and I know of a back entrance that Larry and I could go on that Fed. property, and set off a serious ground buster just for pranks, to watch the Feds go nutz.....:rofl::rofl::lol:

[ZipZap]

Did you know that stick matches fit very nicely into a .177 air gun barrel?

[American Made]

Made a few of those in my day, got a few burnt fingers to go with it.

Good Lord those are perfect breasts! :yesnod::cert:

[BADRACR1]

:BADRACR1:

[Vet4jdc]

We used to empty the gun powder out of firecrackers and load it into a small piece of pipe. We would insert a sharpened no. 2 pencil in the end of the pipe and fire the pencils across the yard. :seasix:

[Kerrmudgeon]

Anyone else use to build those stink bombs with wood match, plastic pen and a bobbie pin? :rofl:

....or bobbie pin trigger snappers......hurt like hell. :yesnod:

[JRD77VET]

I'm just glad I grew up in a very rural area in the 60s/70s :yesnod:

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