Best thing ever! From: Jon Lee Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 8:53 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Homemade fireworks
I will just leave this here https://www.skylighter.com/ On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 6:11 AM, Lewis Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: Can you find a druggist? On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 3:02 PM Robert <[email protected]> wrote: But... Happy Wife...... Happy... On 7/4/18 11:55 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Oddly salty. > *From:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 4, 2018 12:35 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Homemade fireworks > How do your cornflakes taste? > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 2:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Potassium Nitrate is used in preserving meat, like corned beef, it > is also known as Saltpeter. > > If a wife sprinkles some on the husbands cornflakes, she doesn't > have to fake a headache that night. > > At least that is the lore. Not sure if it really works or not. > > -----Original Message----- From: Jay Weekley > Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 11:47 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Homemade fireworks > > I tried gun powder myself as a kid but never got it right. I also > bought my potassium nitrate and sulfur from the pharmacy. What medical > use did that stuff have? The best I could get was a slow burning > fizzle. To my credit I also figured out that paper towels soaked in > potassium nitrate mixed with water and dried also made a passable fuse. > All I had to go one were the Foxfire books and had to modify my > experiments with the resources I had. I'm lucky I didn't have the > internet back then or I may not be around or at least semi intact. > > [email protected] wrote: > > Various thoughts.... > I used to make all my own fireworks as a kid. Get potassium > nitrate from the druggist, grind up some charcoal briquettes, > add some sulfur from the druggist, do endless mixture variations > until you get one that works and you have your powder. Red > devil stump remover is also potassium nitrate. You can get that > at home depot. > You can mix that with sugar and also get something that works. > In that situation you want to cook it to melt the sugar. Rocket > Boys (Homer Hickham) used that to do their missiles. > If you grind it all up (never did blow myself up by literally > grinding these components together in the basement of my parents > house) and them mix it with water into a slurry, you can spread > it out thin on a cookie shoot and bake it in your mom’s oven at > low temps until it is hard. Then you break it up into small > chunks. That process is called “corning” and makes the powder > work all that much better. > Then you can wrap up balls of the stuff (again wet to form a > clay type consistency) in paper towels. Then you load a paper > towel roll with some powder, a ball, more powder, another ball > etc. And you have a great roman candle. > Hard to get this stuff to go off like a fire cracker. You have > to really compress it. I made a small cannon out of water pipe > (hole drilled in a cap for the fuse). Crammed and hammered a > bunch into the pipe followed by cotton ball wadding them a bunch > of fishing sinkers and solder for the projectiles. Put it on a > chunk of fire wood with nails hammered in and bent over the pipe > to keep it still. Homemade fuses can be made by soaking paper > into a potassium nitrate and water mixture and then then left to > dry. Best to roll them into the fuse while wet. Thin paper > like yellowpages worked pretty good. > My fuses were crap though. On the cannon/pipe bomb the fuse > went out so I lit a dry pine tree needle as a punk and probed > the hole in the pipe cap to get it going again. Stepped back, > nothing. Went back over there and got down and put my ear next > to the pipe cap. Yep, could hear it sizzling in there. So I > got up and took a few steps back. KABLOOM!!!! Huge huge huge > explosion. My best ever. Blew the pipe cap off. Split the pipe. > My dad came running out of the house looking to see if he could > find all of my body parts. I had a grin on my face a mile > wide... He demanded that I dump all my powder into the dirt. > That was a very memorable 4th of July. I think of this incident > every 4th. I give thanks for coming away unscathed. (And I > lived in dry land wheat farming country in central Oregon. > Always and extreme fire hazard). > I also perfected acetylene bombs. Made nitrocellulose in my > mom’s kitchen. Tried to make nitro glycerin and mercury > fulminate in the HS science lab. They were both flops. > Still have all my digits and my eyesight. Probably not going to > be allowed to pass this knowledge to my grandchildren though.... > people just don’t want kids to have fun anymore.... (I would > totally freak out if I knew my grandkids were even thinking > about trying some of this stuff). > Some say I am not risk averse. I say I get bored easily. > > > > -- > *Jay Weekley* > *Cyber Broadband > * > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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