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| Thread ID: 26770 | 2002-11-05 04:26:00 | Fireworks night substitute | Susan B (19) | Press F1 |
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| 96076 | 2002-11-05 20:20:00 | Does any one remember moon rockets? I know they were kinda pathetic (just a quick orange fizz), but they were really good for launching stuff. I remember we actually got my thunderbird 1 rocket about 20ft in the air......It came down rather melted. They were also really good for launching matchbox cars (off a specially made ramp). Then there are smoke bombs....(you can still buy them). We used to take them to school and throw lots of them taped together into the changing rooms during PhysEd. Anyone else got any stories like that? |
promethius (1998) | ||
| 96077 | 2002-11-05 21:56:00 | Oh, we used roll pinwheels down the road. Light them, bowl 'em, and watch 'em go! :D SiK |
SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 96078 | 2002-11-06 03:25:00 | Ammonium tri-iodide. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 96079 | 2002-11-06 04:23:00 | >>> Ammonium tri-iodide :O You haven't!! :O :O Now that's playing with fire! |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 96080 | 2002-11-06 04:30:00 | I was but a lad at the time. ;\ I doubt if you could make it these days :-( You can't get the wood. :_| The iodine crystals might be legal, but the anhydrous ammonia would need some influential friends (or some who might be under surveillance for their other chemical operations -- so best kept at a safe distance). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 96081 | 2002-11-06 07:47:00 | Oh man lost the thread here but who was it that said fireworks ain't what they used to be...having even 100 tom thumbs in that solid block of gunpowder. Sure they didn't do much but when you are a kid, that block meant something. And that cool blood shade of red on the double happy packets - lived all year for that. And the big ones - what were they called? Thunderbungas or something like that.Wickedly dangerous - used to send spaghetti cans 10 metres in the air with those. Remember one night (yes Guy Fawkes night of course) taping a skyrocket (one of the good ones) to an old plastic toy car, took it to the middle of the road and, since we lived on a hill, pointed it up hill and lit the wick. Never saw it again! Disappeared into space and I think it may still be in orbit. Red Car, phone home! God I miss my youth sometimes. |
falvrez (390) | ||
| 96082 | 2002-11-06 08:42:00 | tom thumbs and double happy's!!!! I certainly miss them, now I need to get a China VISA before I can play w/ them when I go to HK. Cool .... my airpoints is gonna expire soon. | rayonline (2134) | ||
| 96083 | 2002-11-06 08:57:00 | Well, I flew to Wellington to see the fireworks, they were spectacular.... $85,000 worth for 15 minutes but GREAT! |
godfather (25) | ||
| 96084 | 2002-11-06 08:57:00 | Ummm........Remember those old coppers in the traditional wash house? They were made of pumice concrete for weight reasons and when washing machines arrived on the scene many of these behemoths migrated to back yards (minus copper liner) to do duty as incinerators. Home made gunpowder plus copper pipe and Double Happy binding fuse (the long one that tied all the wicks together) made for a big bang and the incinerator was chosen as the protective bunker/containment vessel. It didn't survive and the resultant remains took a hell of a lot of explaining. I kinda had to admit to wanton vandalism with a large piece of wood as confessing the real truth would have shortened my life. We are safer today with the bought jobs and no ready access to the makings for gunpowder. All ingredients could be bought for next to nothing at the local gardening shop in those days. Cheers Billy 8-{) :D |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 96085 | 2002-11-06 09:14:00 | Billy, that's really dangerous. ]:) .. I'd never think of doing that! .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
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