The worst I ever did was mixing some potasium nitrate with sulpher and charcole. You know that you get when you do that? Gun powder. Mine didn't work every well, but it did give a lot of smoke.
Or what about mixing potasium chlorate (KClO3) with powder suger. Lite that and .... .

I had a buddy of mine, his nickname was toasty if that says anything, but anyways we used to go camping every friday night out on his farm. If you ever saw him pick up a 2 liter of cherry pepsi or something it wasn't it was a bottle of gas, RUN...

I also remember when he put a CO2 Cartrige in the fire, after a few seconds I also remember seeing it blow the tent a good 30 feet away and the fire pit was just a hole not a ember of fire or anything around. Then toasty goes COOL Where is a propane tank :-) Do I have to continue :-)

Ok one more from the camping days, toasty tried to make a candle from a 2 liter bottle of gas hung about 5 feet from the ground that would drip gas down to a little fire going below, logic being that the little fire would be feed by the constant dripping and we would have a little candle, about 5 seconds after he lit it the fire went straight up to the bottle and then we got yet another new tent :-)

That was some of toastys stories I will keep mine for now in case they could be incriminating :-)

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Your previous postings where you play the devils advocate for M$ make more sense now. This is blantantly obvious proof that you are either mentally unstable or completely unable to grasp the basics of common sense.

Oooh, potato cannons... I miss these things, they're actually illegal now in the state where I grew up, sad really. With the third one, spudrocket mk.III we always wondered why it had been called a potato cannon, right? Well, it seems that oranges, apples, pineapple cores, strawberrys, lettuce, and carrots don't hold together under the muzzle velocity at all, you just end up spraying fruit salad about 25ft.

Cheers,

Finegan

potato cannons? How do those work? Tell me, tell me!

No way man, if you want to go detonate spuds, look up the specifics elsewhere on the world wide whatever.

Cheers,

Finegan

Man, this thread brought back memories of my childhood when I learned not to light firecrackers with a sparkler :D

Basically I was lighting cherry bombs and because the sparkler was ...well...sparkling...I couldn't see that the wick was lit and I held on a bit too long...

No permanent damage fortunately...but my hand stung for a while..and since I was pulling back to throw when it went off, my ears rang for days :)

It was a fun day when I found out how to make a firecracker bazooka :D

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Yea but he's still pretty funny:D

i did, it shot potatoes about 300-400 yards

but the real fun was in golfballs........
i estemate somewhere between 1/4-1/2 mile, i walked that far strait behind my house and found nothing, even after shooting about 100 golfballs :eek: (i live in the country)


you didnt get this from me, spud tech

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Hey now that wan't nice. I'm just havin fun man. I use linux, but I'm not all uptight about it. I agree that m$ is a piece of crap, but I have to use it cause I am a professional producer and my software synthesis program will only run through windows. Chill out, man.

Common sense just ain't that common! lol I love that quote ...

Wow, shoot up one and try to catch it! lol, no, just kidding. That might be a killer way to practice outfield catches in baseball though! Just make your cannon strong enough or it'll explode!!! :eek:

wow, those potato cannons do some serious shit. I thought whey where just children's toy's
What is just as much fun, but a lot less harmless, are water rockets. What you do is take a plastic bottle, put water in 'm and plug it of with an rubber cork with an valve drilled in to it. (I hope you call it a valve. Sorry, English is not my native language. I mean those things that go in bicycle weels that prevent air from getting out of the weel, but does allows you to pump air in). Now pump up the bottle and release the cork. If you do it right, those babes will fly for 250 meters.
here is a link.

I don't know if this is the same as a potato cannon but I used to make cannons that shot tennis balls with soda cans and cigarette lighter fluid. The way cans are made today though, I think you'd just end up with shrapnel.

sigh.... I feel old now

The most fun stupid thing I've done, that I'll admit to, was having roman candle fights in the hallway of my dorm at college.

Just like Quake - except with powder burns. :D

ok, ok, you win, my little fire sory, i once lit a cup of gasoline in the middle of my driveway, and also tried to burn down a barn by twisting the wires from an electirc plug togeather into a cup of gas and pluggin it in, fortunatly the fuse blew and nothing burned, that's how close i came to killing myself, of course i was about 10-12 at the time so i didn't know much better :)