sketch Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 Yep pyro here we were clearing my buddies yard of brush and blackberries then we were in charge of the fire hmmm let's throw in a 1 lb almost empty propane tank!! cool then we stepped back hit it with a few .22 cal Sheridan pump rnds nothing ... I guess it was empty lets go see.. I pull my hood of my sweatshirt over my head and follow my friend to the fire.. We deside to push it in the coals... BOOM we bolth fly back about 4 feet on our backs hahaha then I look at my friends face and he looked like a hairless cat to the middle of his head!!! Omg we were in some serious heat after that I didn't see him for 3 weeks at school. This thred might need a don't attempt at home warning ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washguy Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 is 1984 considered the good ol days? My engine builder showed me this one nite at his shop You take a oxy act torch and fire it up....hit the cutting trigger and adjust till it pops off...then you are set....get about five penny balloons fill them up with he gas.....then put them in a large grocery paper sack.....take a roll of toilet paper and put some in the sack.....unroll the tp to a safe distance and light the boom will take your breath away...like some one hitting you in the chest...the night sky will will light up too!.....:) Wash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 is 1984 considered the good ol days? My engine builder showed me this one nite at his shop You take a oxy act torch and fire it up....hit the cutting trigger and adjust till it pops off...then you are set....get about five penny balloons fill them up with he gas.....then put them in a large grocery paper sack.....take a roll of toilet paper and put some in the sack.....unroll the tp to a safe distance and light the boom will take your breath away...like some one hitting you in the chest...the night sky will will light up too!.....:) Wash That's how we did the 39 gal trash bag fulla propane kinda. Trash bag fulla propane, rubber floor mat pressing down on bag, 1 can carb cleaner spay trail of cleaner, light cleaner watch 30-40' mushroom cloud. Never thought of static at that age coulda gone very wrong! Wash yes 84' is Back in the day, I may still have bed In diapers in that year lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washguy Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 1984.....old days.....crap....Im an old fart :) Wash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt.Cross Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 1984 is the year I won my first swimming contest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 1984 is the year I won my first swimming contest! Mighta been the first year I took swim lessons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt.Cross Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 Mighta been the first year I took swim lessons Actually, my information was completely incorrect. I won my first swimming contest in July of 1983, I was born in 1984. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLKSHEEP Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 ^^ <laughs> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsquared Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 1984.....old days.....crap....Im an old fart :) Wash I'm with you there wash. I graduated in 84. Sheesh............................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seasprite Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 is 1984 considered the good ol days? My engine builder showed me this one nite at his shop You take a oxy act torch and fire it up....hit the cutting trigger and adjust till it pops off...then you are set....get about five penny balloons fill them up with he gas.....then put them in a large grocery paper sack.....take a roll of toilet paper and put some in the sack.....unroll the tp to a safe distance and light the boom will take your breath away...like some one hitting you in the chest...the night sky will will light up too!..... :) Wash Now you reminded me of the 5 gal. bucket that we did the same to. Use to send that sucker above the tree tops until we put a little to much gas under it. ::) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebra644 Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 Oh yeah!! Plastic cap rings in the snubnose revolvers! And the M16s with the card-in-the-spokes, slow-faster-slower-stop cyclic rate! Back then everyone made tennisball cannons, when tennisballs came in metal cans. Soak the ball in lighter fluid, THEN shoot it! You may be in a block against block war, but when some kid starts a desert lot on fire EVERYONE became a fireman and put it out. Or EVERYONE got a BELT whoopin' after the fire department left. In this present time we would get called by some idiot about kids playing with real guns and IEDs then get yelled at for not arresting the kids for criminal damaging by catching the grass on fire. Its very sad the turn of events. I guess the people that call that kind of stuff in never got thier sonic blaster or the detective kit. Speaking of which I would love to find one when I make detective and keep it as a funny haha thing in my den or office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyEJL Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 you know, I still see the plastic cap rings for sale, but never see the actual pistol for sale anymore. I want to buy one for my 5 year old :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
392heminut Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 I guess the people that call that kind of stuff in never got thier sonic blaster or the detective kit. Speaking of which I would love to find one when I make detective and keep it as a funny haha thing in my den or office. We gave one of those kits to one of the guys when he made detective years ago. I had forgotten all about that until you mentioned the detective kit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dracomeister Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 You young whipper-snappers don't know what fun wuz! We were too poor to buy a sonic blaster so we had to make do with home-made toys! Back 'long 'bout '60, '62 er so, me an my big brother decided to build us a "Spud Gun" (y'all might remember those) so we got us a piece of 1/2" copper, screwed on a cap, drilled in a touch hole,squirted in a drip or two of Dad's cigerette lighter fluid,stuck a piece of potatoe in the other end and lit 'er off! Real satisfyin' bang and the pro-jec-tile wound up pokin a hole in the plaster in the kitchen wall. Mom was not happy and neither me nor my brother could out run the switchin' (somethin' about bein' held by one arm and whupped in a circle). Well, after we recovered from that we decided to try the next step outside! In true Hillbilly fashion, we decided that if a 1/2" diameter piece of spud would hole a wall, a whole spud might be more interestin'. We found a piece of 2" pipe with a cap, drilled our touch hole. stuffed in a whole spud, and tried the lighter fluid again ... not enough umph ... OK how 'bout some powder out of Dad's shotgun shells? Is one enough? Prob'ly not, how 'bout a dozen, that ought to be enough! Well, kids, the ONLY thing we did right was to decide not to hold the thing! Snuck it out to the barn, stuck it between two hay bales, stuck a "light it anywhere" match in the touch hole, lit the match and lit out ourselves. To this day I swear that ligthnin' hit that barn and started that fire ... just lucky our neighbor was a volunteer fireman and heard the thunder! I don't think Mom (or Dad) believed our story and we got to practice runnin' in a circle again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robocop1051 Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 :laughing4: :sign10: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyEJL Posted December 2, 2013 Report Share Posted December 2, 2013 in the early 80s, our potato guns were PVC, with gas grill spark lighters installed as the firing mechanism, and moms hair spray for propellant :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 you know, I still see the plastic cap rings for sale, but never see the actual pistol for sale anymore. I want to buy one for my 5 year old :D Saw one the other day it was every bright ass color you could think of, mine was back and brown with an orange tip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripledeuce Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 (edited) I wanted to build a "rocket"! So, I took a half dozen charges out of my dads shotshell reloader.Looked around for a rocket.. Ureka! found a quart mason jar, with a tight lid, poked a hole in the top. dumped in the powder, set it up on two bricks, lit a match(strike anywhere) and stuck the match in the hole! That bottle looked real purty! powder burning things flying around the inside, gas and "stuff" blasting out the hole! It made it about 6" off the ground befor the power gave out. "rocket " crashed to earth, and glass went flying everywhere!!!!! OH!, and by 83 I'd owned my gunshop for 10 years.....LOL!! And! my caps were rolls of paper. Made a good loud BANG when you hit the whole roll with a hammer!!! Respectfully Terry Edited December 3, 2013 by Tripledeuce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripledeuce Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 Oh! and Wash, the formula for black powder is potassium nitrate, sulpher, and charcoal. 70, 20, 10. T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seasprite Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 in the early 80s, our potato guns were PVC, with gas grill spark lighters installed as the firing mechanism, and moms hair spray for propellant :) Ahh yes, the old Aqua Net worked great in getting those potatoes flying for couple of 100 yards <thumbsup> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washguy Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 Oh! and Wash, the formula for black powder is potassium nitrate, sulpher, and charcoal. 70, 20, 10. T. Thats it wasnt salt peter the nitrate? :) Wash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyEJL Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 Ahh yes, the old Aqua Net worked great in getting those potatoes flying for couple of 100 yards <thumbsup>I'm sure nowadays you'd get arrested as a terrorist for having WMDs. Weapons of Mashed Destruction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 I'm sure nowadays you'd get arrested as a terrorist for having WMDs. Weapons of Mashed Destruction. Ha-ha We used butane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasyEJL Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 we built ours so it was the right inside diameter to use tennis balls with too, doused in lighter fluid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripledeuce Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 Potassium nitrate and salt peter are the same things. T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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