Misusing tools.

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Plastic coke bottle half full of water, handfull of calcium carbide.
Put the CC in the bottle and quickly put the lid on it.
Shake it up and throw it. Makes a great grenade. )</font>

I would not have thought you could get rid of it before it blew up in your face. When I was a little kid, my Dad drove a truck selling welding supplies. I think the carbide that he sold came in 25 pound cans. One of his customers spilled a bunch on the ground once and I gathered it up to play with. One tablespoonful dumped into a coffee can of water would make the water boil, and if you were quick enough, you could light it with a match, but it didn't last long. Of course Dad told me to never put more than one tablespoonful in a can of water at a time. Well, that just didn't last long enough, so one day I very quickly put 3 or 4 tablespoonsful in the water and lit it. There was a small explosion and I thought my right hand was on fire but didn't see any flames on it. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif But I had to be careful to not let Mother or Dad see my right hand for a day or two because if Dad had found out what I did, the beating would have been worse than the burned hand. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[PineRidge]

Bird the very same gas that carbide makes is acetylene. We used to fill a large balloon with the gas and tie a string on the neck. We would light the string on fire and launch the balloon in a slight breeze. Depending on how large the balloon was you could get a pretty nice mushroom cloud going.

 

[Pooh_Bear]

Use a plastic soda bottle and you have some time to hold it.
It takes time to build up pressure.
The bottle will start inflating like a balloon.
2 and 3 liter bottles get huge with huge explosions to match.

Unless they explode near a flame it's just like popping a balloon.
But the plastic is thicker and the pressure is higher.
Thus more energy goes into the explosion.

Back when soft drinks came in glass bottles with steel lids
I could fill one up with water and put the lid on it and toss it into the campfire.
I did this exactly one time as a teenager camping with friends.
I made one and tossed it into the fire one nite.
A friend asked me what was that. I replied: water bomb.
He said will it work, will it really explode. I said sure will, just wait.
If any of you here know the power of a flash steam explosion then you understand.
We all ran and hid behind stuff and waited.
Didn't take long. It went off and blew that campfire in all directions. It blew it out.
My friends threated to beat me within an inch of my life if I ever done that again.

Pooh Bear

 

[Taylortractornut]

I made something like this a few years ago to trim up some willows and other woody plants around the pond at work. I have a strange fear of frogs and toads, guess that makes me a toadaphobic. grin I took a boat andwent around an saw what all I had to do so I went to a discount store and bought a Weedeater and took the head off. It was a 5/8ths shaft and I mounted a 7.250 blade that worked good but what worked better was the 12 inch blade. I could cut the stmps off under water. and even clumps of catttails. The 7 inch blades work best for dirt and roots though. Plus the business end is away from you.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Do you guys still have all your body parts? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Brian

 

[Taylortractornut]

To that question not all of them. Missing a joint from using a new skill saw lol.

 

[Pooh_Bear]

I still have most of my body parts.
Only one missing is a brain.
I got fluff for brains.

Seriously folks, don't try this stuff at home.
The authorities take a rather dim view of it.

Pooh Bear

 

[BloomingtonMike]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Missing a joint from using a new skill saw lol. )</font>

I don't think the "joint" was missed.

 

[Elvis3054]

You know 3 to 4 oz Muratic acid and a small quarter size of pice of aluminum foil in a plastic bottle shake and through nice big boom. Here is a couple web sites on tater guns, I have a few I play with I've made different barrels for golf balls, ping pong, etc.

www.burntlake.com
www.advancedsuds.com

 

[Pooh_Bear]

I didn't know that about the muratic acid and tin foil.
Will have to investigate that one some.

And on a more productive note,
Get a piece of 3 inch plastic electrical conduit.
Get a piece of threaded rod same length as the conduit.
Get a tennis ball. Drill a hole straight thru the tennis ball smaller than the threaded rod.
Put a nut and flat washer on the threaded rod, put the tennis ball on the
threaded rod, put another nut and flat washer on the threaded rod.
Stick the tennis ball in one end of the conduit.
Cap the other end with a way to hook it up to a pressurized
air/water/hydrualic source. Instant pneumatic/hydrualic cylinder.
Great for all kinds of light duty uses.
Little imagination you can scale it up to whatever length conduit you can get.

You can do the same thing with a 3/4 dowel rod and a piece of
3/4 PVC pipe and and O ring. Cut a groove around one end of
the dowel to accept the O ring and stick it in the PVC pipe.

Just some things to do with pressurized pipe other than tater guns.

Anybody know how to make a home made paint ball gun?

Pooh Bear

 

[Taylortractornut]

The first day out for summer vacation when I was 15 I was i nthe shop making some shelves for weldingrods and other items in the old shed I hit a spike in the board and it let a chunk jam the guard up. The resulting finger removal is still visible today. They reattached the remainder I was so scred i couldnt look at it. They asked can you feel it I said ep and the left it on. a day later changing the bandage i saw the 35degree angle my finger was on and almost freaked.

 

[Taylortractornut]

The first day out for summer vacation when I was 15 I was in the shop making some shelves for welding rods and other items in the old shed. I hit a spike in the board and it let a chunk jam the guard up. The resulting finger removal is still visible today. They reattached the remainder I was so scared i couldnt look at it. They asked can you feel it I said ep and the left it on. a day later changing the bandage i saw the 35degree angle my finger was on and almost freaked.

 

[Defective]

Home Made Paintball Gun 1

Home Made Paintball Gun 2

 

[Pooh_Bear]

Cool, thanks for those.

Pooh Bear

 

[Casco1]

Pooh Bear, Just a funny little story I'd like to throw out. When my daughter returned from serving in the Gulf war in '91 one of the things she brought back was a fiuture husband a rural raised young man from Illinois. While getting to know each other he was going to impress his city raised future father-in-law his 'tater gun. After a few demonstrations he ran out of accelerant, we didn't have any hairspray in the house so he was about to end the demo. When hi "inexperienced" father-in-law came up from the basement with can of starting fluid ( ether ). The superior performance impressed him so much we've gotten along pretty well since then. I guess this city boy wasn't so dumb after all.

 

[PineRidge]

Here's our meger attempt at a tater gun BD-5 launcher

 

[MikeD74T]

Since this post is already far off track.... in the 60's (my teenage years) in northern New Hampshire woodchuck hunting was great sport. Now, since the arrival of coyotes, woodchucks are only close to buildings & less availible to shoot at. Do any of you remember the Monty Python exploding penguin on top of the television? Well, last year I managed to shoot a woodchuck in the field across from my camp just after the hay was cut. My buddy came along and we hatched a plan. Found a 2 litre soda bottle with a cap. Lit my oxy/acetylene torch and adjusted to a cutting flame, swiped a glove across the tip to extinguish the flame, and filled the soda bottle with the mixture. For the uninitiated this is a shock sensative explosive mixture. We stretched the woodchuck skin over the bottle and placed it back at the burrow, popped a couple of cold beers & waited. In less than 1/2 hour a young buck came driving by & spied the chuck. He quickly stopped his truck, dismounted, took careful aim, and fired. We nearly pi**ed our pants at the shock on his face when that woodchuck exploded. Hope another chuck adopts that burrow!!!

 

[sonofczechgun]

LOL

same experience. Also we were able to find ammo in the woods - WWII rolled over my country just enough to leave some in there.

Same thing, rusty ammo from schmeisser in the fire) and hiding behind a tree waiting for the bang.

Boy we were stupid, got quite few scars from it too.

 

[sandman2234]

Not meaning to devert this post back to the original track, but have you thought about building something similiar to my stump grinder/ trencher that I posted about a while back?
I cut the roots from a neighbors tree where they threatened to break my driveway. I just pulled it back and forth across the opening to kill the roots, without cutting the tree. Earlier a large limb fell and hit the wifes car, and he refused to help with the damage. I called a friend who sent his son to cut all the limbs on my property line. That and the roots cut by the trencher tend to make this one likely to fall towards his house next time. Watch out during the next hurricane.
David from jax

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