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| 1 2 | UER Forum > UE Main > What did I find while exploring? Bomb? Bird feeder? (Viewed 6564 times) |
Radio2600
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| | | Re: What did I find while exploring? Bomb? Bird feeder? < Reply # 15 on 4/1/2019 5:54 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Samurai as someone who spent the majority of my teenage years building improvised explosive devices, I chuckled warmly when it was suggested that item was a 'bomb'. I am still chuckling warmly.
| I think most every geek in their teenage years experimented with this in some way. About age 14, I found the Bomber's Bible* at a garage sale and it was all downhill from there. The Bomber's Bible was a book from the early 1900s that had complete instructions for making everything from flash powder to TNP. It was published under several names like: "Fortunes in Formulas" or "Henley's Formulas" to name a couple. At a point after a near-miss with organic peroxides, I found phone phreaking and girls to be more interesting than bombs.
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| Explorer Zero
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| | | | Re: What did I find while exploring? Bomb? Bird feeder? < Reply # 17 on 4/1/2019 1:16 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | IQ level in this thread has bottomed out Just go back and get better pictures of the timer mechanism so we can determine what sort of bomb you found is it a command detonated device, an IED, a booby trap, a king size anti-personnel mine ? also somebody should publish some links to those bomb making sites and docs, I have some 5 gallon buckets that would make perfect urbex explosive devices! somebody should start a thread in the Rookie Forum: "should I bring a bomb to a bando?" or where should I park my bomb <> or: can I hook my 9v battery up directly to the charge without using a shunt ? 1.
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
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| | | Re: What did I find while exploring? Bomb? Bird feeder? < Reply # 18 on 4/1/2019 3:08 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Radio2600
I think most every geek in their teenage years experimented with this in some way. About age 14, I found the Bomber's Bible* at a garage sale and it was all downhill from there. The Bomber's Bible was a book from the early 1900s that had complete instructions for making everything from flash powder to TNP. It was published under several names like: "Fortunes in Formulas" or "Henley's Formulas" to name a couple. At a point after a near-miss with organic peroxides, I found phone phreaking and girls to be more interesting than bombs.
| none of this was because of any book or movie we watched... my friend Will's dad had a fucking arsenal at their house. As a result, he did his own reloading and had tons of gunpowder laying around. So after school or on the weekends, Will would get hold of some of it and the big kabooms would commence. All was going swimmingly until he got caught in one of his own blasts, a blast I felt almost a mile away. Will still bears the scars from that encounter, the shrapnel that he had in the bowl. So, since a good kaboom is too hard to walk away from, we moved to detonating wd40 devices... and experience that left me without facial hair for almost a month. In fact, in my 1988 school yearbook picture, I look really really surprised because I have no eyebrows- they had gotten burned off four days previously by a wd40 fireball.
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| Radio2600
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| | | Re: What did I find while exploring? Bomb? Bird feeder? < Reply # 19 on 4/1/2019 4:08 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Samurai
none of this was because of any book or movie we watched... my friend Will's dad had a fucking arsenal at their house. As a result, he did his own reloading and had tons of gunpowder laying around. So after school or on the weekends, Will would get hold of some of it and the big kabooms would commence. All was going swimmingly until he got caught in one of his own blasts, a blast I felt almost a mile away. Will still bears the scars from that encounter, the shrapnel that he had in the bowl. So, since a good kaboom is too hard to walk away from, we moved to detonating wd40 devices... and experience that left me without facial hair for almost a month. In fact, in my 1988 school yearbook picture, I look really really surprised because I have no eyebrows- they had gotten burned off four days previously by a wd40 fireball.
| Finding the Henley's book was a lucky find. We were blowing stuff up for years before that. That just moved us up the expertise chain. When the other kids were still packing powder into pipes, we had TNP (aka picric acid). I started on my own too, but in NYC gun powder is hard to come by. Emptying out fireworks to get powder was the usual route. Fireworks are totally illegal in NYC, bur are easy to get because every low-level thug is selling them starting right after Easter. Some of the chemicals were easier to get than others. Cannon fuse was impossible to get, so we made our own which worked most of the time. Potassium nitrate was not available, but nitric acid and sulfuric acid were a little easier to find. We'd shoot stuff off under the el so it would echo for miles, but be difficult to pinpoint the origin of the blast. That also put us in contact with the graffiti people. Our definition of "bombing" didn't quite mesh with their definition of "bombing". Many years later at a wedding, the groom was well-known graffiti artist and he introduced me to his new wife as: "this is the firebomb guy I told you about." Powdered coffee creamer is wicked stuff.
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