Firecrackers and other stupid things...

So what's stupid about that?? That's FUN!! * kids don't try this at home, we're trained professionals * wait, I was a kid when I did that stuff!!

I think my best effort was when we took my friends little brothers cheap plastic, metal axle, General Lee car (big one) and duct taped a c8 model rocket motor to the roof and sent it off across the empty high school parking lot. I didn't know that type of plastic would burn so redily and trying to stomp out molten flaming plastic before the cop going down the road sees it isn't much fun However I did learn what not to do unlike the guy in Arizona that strapped the JATO bottle to his 1/1 car out there in the desert.

BTW the General Lee did some stunts worthy of the show before going down in flames

Eric

QUOTE: Originally posted by berny13 When I was a kid, I used to put shotgun shells on a fence and shoot at them with a BB gun. The one time I did hit the primer, the shell came flying back at me, just missing my head. That was the last time I tried that trick. For every action, there is a equal and opposite reaction.

LOL
I did a few of these type of experiments too. Pulled the bullet out of a .303 round and ignited the powder with a match...once! Not to bright but I found out why missles have fins.

When I was a kid, I used to put shotgun shells on a fence and shoot at them with a BB gun. The one time I did hit the primer, the shell came flying back at me, just missing my head. That was the last time I tried that trick.

For every action, there is a equal and opposite reaction.

Absolutely!
I have reels and reels of Super-8 film (now all transferred to video) documenting the demise of countless model kits. Influenced by Star Wars and other films, I seriously wanted to be a special effects technician, and did a lot of minature effects work as a teenager with my modeling buddies. Consequently, I built a lot of stuff with the intent to blow it up! I weakened key structures, and built in receptacles for ignition devices and explosives and other flammable materials to enhance the explosions. The parents never new till decades later!

Of course, the earlier days certainly featured the ocassional bottle rocket up the tailpipe of some old and tired kits, too.
Too bad I didn't get all those on film...

Dude sounds like fun!

I can't wait for the 4th of July next year.

We get good fireworks here in Oklahoma!!!

Wroper