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    Fireworks

    I had fireworks left over, around 3 pacs of blackcats, so anyways i decided to make 1 big firework, so i took a crayola marker and cut the tip. Then i divided the powders, as there were about 3 in each blackcat. A dark one a gray one and a white one. I put them in the same order they were in the blackcat, and i also used a slow burning wick. Anyways the point of the story is why it didint light?

    I put the powder in the same order it is in a blackcat, my goal was to make 1 big blackcat. After the powder was in, i compressed it, then i put a small amount of paper over it to keep the powder from falling out. My question is, why didint it light?

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    Did you use a fuse?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orefus
    I put the powder in the same order it is in a blackcat, my goal was to make 1 big blackcat. After the powder was in, i compressed it, then i put a small amount of paper over it to keep the powder from falling out. My question is, why didint it light?
    God decided to spare you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Esperante
    God decided to spare you.
    LOL

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    You Are Supposed To Mix The Powders Together!

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    Coat them all in gas and then light it from afar

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    How about using a piece of metal tubing to launch mortars

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    Quote Originally Posted by Esperante
    God decided to spare you.
    Words of wisdom.
    Nothing good can come from messing around with explosives. Especially seeing you dont know why something isnt working.
    "A string is approximately nine long."
    Egg Nogg 02-04-2005, 05:07 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by crisis
    Nothing good can come from messing around with explosives.
    In the right hands, much entertainment can be had

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    i agree with eggy
    and i have two right hands
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    Quote Originally Posted by Egg Nog
    In the right hands, much entertainment can be had
    Equal fun can be had in the wrong hands.
    My mates got hold of some illegal fireworks (actually on a few occasions). Christmas night a couple of years ago he decided to let off a rocket for the kids.
    He proceeded to cable tie the stick to the pool fence despite my pleadings that the stick needed to go with the rest of it. Anyhow I took the kids and as many as I could save to the safest location I could find. Needless to say the rocket did not rise and the subsequent ground burst sent sparks all over the yard and into a neigbours yard which it would be fair to say was in a serious need of mowing. Christmas being summer here and the grass being dry, a scrub fire ensued. Several half p!ssed volunteers lainched over the not insubstantial fence to quell the flames. Police were called , yadda, yadda, yadda, fireworks can be dangerous.
    Home made explosives however take it up to a new level of peril.
    "A string is approximately nine long."
    Egg Nogg 02-04-2005, 05:07 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by crisis
    sent sparks all over the yard and into a neigbours yard which it would be fair to say was in a serious need of mowing.


    Note to self: next time I buy a house, I'll make sure there is no neighbourhood so I can safely blow my hands out using noisy, poluent, unnecessary and no fun-at-all fireworks!
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    this years recipe:

    - 20 ml of self-prepared Nitroglycerine. Already done under supervision of our chemistry teacher, a kilometer away from everything and everyone else that can be hurt.Stored in special place on our school.
    - A tube
    - 500 metres of electric wire
    - a home-made detonator giving a small spark
    - a big plank of wood to hide under in a dune
    - a camera on top of a dune,maybe two cameras.


    It's going to be lit at exactly the time a new year will come Now that is starting of with a bang


    Last years recipe:

    - A Stolen piece of plumbing (13 cm wide steel tube)
    - 2 kilograms of gunpowder
    - 6 pieces of illegal fireworks (avalance arrows)
    - a long fuse
    - a lighter

    That was one hell of a bang !!! it had blown a big piece (.5 x .5 x.25 metres) out of a concrete slab laying 15 metres away !!!

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    ^^^^Do last year's recipe again and take a picture of the damage

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    My friends uncle works for the national bomb squad. Sow he has acces to all illegal fireworks. But that's no fun...

    He got us two training bombs!!!! Those are the real shit!!! We went to a pasture nearby and planted them in the middle of it. We equiped it with remote control able to reach 100m (safe distance). We laid down in a ditch and detonaded it. OMG!!! It was such a big bang.

    After the explosion we went to look of what was left, and all we found was nothing... (except for a crater).
    "The best thing about this is that you know that it has to come from a country where drugs is legal"

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