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Those are good. When the pistol didn't work you just stretched them out on the garage floor and hit them with a hammer. Tigger or Trigger it's the same basic thing right?
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I never thought of that. A vice comes in handy for a lot of things. We used the vise to hold the rocket we tried to set off in my dad's garage. Now, your not going to believe this, but we launched an eye dropper. My older smarter friend poured gun powder into the vessel, put the rubber squeeze thing back on top. Made it level. Maybe, there was a fuze. Lit it off and it shot 1 ft. There were other experiments after that.
If you still have your old six shooters that's something. Remember how to load one?If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.Comment
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I did something somewhat similar with a 24" length of 2" steel water pipe. This experiment also included a vice, fuze and gun powder. The pipe was completely filled with powder (do the math) and "launched" into the ground. There is much more to this story. People were talking about it the following day.
Loading cap pistols? Yeah, I had forgotten about the part of pulling out a section of the roll past the hammer. A little bit like loading film in a 35mm camera.Comment
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As teenagers, we would fill empty CO2 cartridges with book match heads (took several books to fill) and stick a whole match in the end and light it like a fuse. We never knew where they went, but a terrific bang and gone!Comment
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We used a 10 inch length of one inch diameter water pipe and made a cannon that fired marbles into the garage across the road. We made our own black powder by telling my friend's older sister that we needed saltpeter for an experiment using his kids chemistry set. She worked for a chemical distributor and never clued into what we were doing. We got the sulphur at the pharmacist and the charcoal from the BBQ. We had no idea just how dangerous this was but then we were 12 years oldComment
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Saltpeter is a fertilizer or food preservative so no restrictions there. Now, there may be though. I think I had my Mom pick this up for me and yeah, she knew what I was up to. The sulphur, like you said came from the drug store and I used the charcoal briquettes too from the grill. The briquettes were broken up using a hammer then I kept going till it was a fine powder like the other 2 ingredients. Starting with equal parts I added a little of this and that till the powder would flash w/o leaving any or much residue. What I ended up with was something very near the type powder used in firecrackers--very fine, like flour, and would flash, not burn. I would put a few ounces into that pipe at a time and compact it using a hammer and wooden dowel till the sound resembled a metalic "dink", "dink". Then I would add more powder and do the same till I completely filled the 24" pipe.
Yeah, lighting a fuze to this probably was a little dangerous.Comment
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We used to punch a hole through the bottom of a tin can, put in a firecracker with it's fuze sticking through the hole, and push the can down on a fence post. The can would go about a hundred feet. We used it as a mortar.Comment
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Did the same with cherry bombs but didn't go to the trouble to punch the hole. We just let the fuse stick out below the rim of the can. We launched from a flat tile or brick instead of a fence post. Use to enjoy throwing cherry bombs into mud puddles too. The fuse was waterproof. They blew a lot a water straight up, then it all came down.Comment
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My high school in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas, was built by the CCC in 1940. It was on a steep lot, so there was a half-basement under the back part of the building. That's where the restrooms were. To go to the restroom, you had to go out the front door and around the back.
When you got there, you could see that whoever installed the plumbing had never seen a flush toilet in his life! They all drained into a pipe that slanted horizontally downhill. Boys room on the upper end, girls on the lower. Boys used to flush M80s down the toilet and listen for screaming from the girls.Comment
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Happened to one of my 8th grade teachers. She left the room for a few minutes then came back drenched head to toe including her hair. On another occasion someone shot a rabbit late on a Friday afternoon, raised a window in her classroom then tossed the rabbit inside to stew in the heat till discovered Monday morning. Another occasion, may have been during Summer vacation, someone broke in and took her door off the hinges. It was later found beached on the riverbank of a nearby river the locals frequently used then.
Yeah, she deserved all this and WAY more. She was a mental case that had no business being around other humans, much less children. Our tax dollars at work.Comment
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Mental people need to be respected. Right? Isn't that what Barney said we should do?
Allen, it's sounds like you went to the same school as Carey. School can be rough. Do you ever wonder about your old teacher? Did she teach you anything?Last edited by dryheat; 12-21-2022, 12:14.If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.Comment
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I wouldn't use the word "teach". Like anyone in her position she had to go by the books decided upon the county and state. Mostly what was taught by all teachers then was about as useless as a used condom.
Instead of the word "teach" I would say she got her point across more so by screaming, hollering, and perhaps some jumping up and down. Just kidding, she was far worse than this. Obviously she never married and lived alone. She taught history which later in life became one of my favorite subjects but in school I learned nothing of any use, especially the BS that was in the books. This part wasn't the teachers fault---they had to "teach" what was presented to them but a real teacher can make things interesting. Few to none of them did that. They stared at the clock on the wall as much as the students.Comment
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