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When I was Fourteen

Estro Felino

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
This thread reminded me of a period when the stricty Catholic upbringing made me want to evade...to be free...

I was particularly disinhibited with the males of the school...:p

I got a slightly bad reputation in HS
 
Jedster

Jedster

Flying through space
Valjean said:
When I was fourteen I was compounding explosives and rocket propellants in my bedroom. I found a mixture that produced a really impressive exhaust flame when poured into a steel pipe. To show my parents, I put a little in a pipe and aimed it into a fireplace. To prevent spillage I balled up some aluminum foil and tamped it into the pipe.(Need I add that I was chemically challenged and had no idea what I was doing?) Apparently when contained it didn't burn, but exploded. The recoil launched the pipe across the room and through a wall, nearly taking out my little brother.
My parents put a quick stop to my hobby after that. :(
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When I was 14 my dad bought us the whole Encyclopedia Brittanica. On my birthday, he gave me a chemistry set and I used the encyclopaedia to find out how to make gun powder.
Lo and behold, and to my surprise, all the chemicals I needed were in my chemistry set.

Well, it worked and I blew a hole on the surface of my desk.
Fortunately, my dad never found out. I did a cover up.
Also that was the year of my first serious girfriend.
A great year,
 
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Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
ChristineM said:
On a similar vein. I think i was 13, maybe 14 when i learned how to...

...close up one end of a copper tube and drill a small hole in it. Break a banger (firecracker) and pour the gunpowder into the tube. Stuff the tube with a bit of toilet paper then drop a sawn of bolt (just a little less than the inside diameter of the tube) into the tube and pack it all down with a bit more toilet paper. Stick the banger fuse into the hole and secure it with a bit of blutak. Wedge the whole device somewhere, light blue touch paper and run like hell to the side of the tube.

Whatever you do not run in front or behind.
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Tut, tut - naughty - but I suspect this was common when fireworks were so easily available then. :oops:
 
Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
Tut, tut - naughty - but I suspect this was common when fireworks were so easily available then.

ChristineM said:
Yes.
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I can't own up to my naughty deeds too much, but I suspect that thieving chemicals from school to make gunpowder was actually illegal. :oops:
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Mock Turtle said:
Tut, tut - naughty - but I suspect this was common when fireworks were so easily available then.


I can't own up to my naughty deeds too much, but I suspect that thieving chemicals from school to make gunpowder was actually illegal. :oops:
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Naughty naughty...i lived on a farm so the fertiliser was no problem.

It just accidentally leaked from the sacks
 
beenherebeforeagain

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
Mock Turtle said:
Tut, tut - naughty - but I suspect this was common when fireworks were so easily available then. :oops:
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Here in the US, fireworks are easily available 24/7/365...one doesn't even need to take firecrackers apart anymore to get big booms and things that go flying very fast. Black powder is reasonably inexpensive and easily available...
 
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