Really cool homemade bomb idea!

**SnesR0X** · May 7th, 2007, 18:27

lol, sounds fun

**Triv1um** · May 7th, 2007, 18:33

I find plastic explosives makes good bombs.

thats just a personal preference.

**kcajblue** · May 7th, 2007, 23:46

Originally Posted by bah

CRC/WD40, deodorant etc all work fine.
The higher the flammability rating on the can the better but my old potato gun used to send a lemon a LONG way on a spray of lynx.

The fit of the projectile in the barrel always seemed to be the most important thing, if you had to force the lemon down the barrel really hard with a long pole you would get a great shot. You also get an increased chance of getting showered in plastic shards but where's the fun in safety?

the wd40 now doesnt work for combustions.
maybe if you find an old can.

and youll only get impaled with plastic if you use PVC and the chamber couldnt take the blast.
ABS doesnt have that problem.
it just rips and youll get a really bad burn.

**LilSwish722** · May 8th, 2007, 01:14

Originally Posted by kcajblue

the wd40 now doesnt work for combustions.
maybe if you find an old can.

and youll only get impaled with plastic if you use PVC and the chamber couldnt take the blast.
ABS doesnt have that problem.
it just rips and youll get a really bad burn.

Now if I go to the ER, I want it to be because I did something manly...and personally I think being impaled with a hundred pieces of PVC is wayyyy manlier than getting a burn

**kcajblue** · May 8th, 2007, 03:20

id rather be less manly and alive and burned.
rather than manly and dead. lol.

**bah** · May 8th, 2007, 13:47

I was about 13 when I made it with what I could come across. It did have about 5 rolls of gaffer tape around the chamber in a pretty poor attempt to 'make it safer'.

The back of the chamber screwed on so if anything that probably would have stripped and flown off, or possibly the join between the larger back chamber and the barrel would come apart and it would shoot off backwards.
That would probably have given a nice burn.

At the time i felt completely safe shooting it 100s of times, my trusty tape keeping me safe from every possible possibility.
My dad helped me make it so he couldn't have been too worried. Doing stupid possibly dangerous stuff is what being a kid is all about.

I gave the thing to a mate years back, I normally used deodorant, which from looking at a can now has butane as a propellant and worked just fine.

My can of WD-40 I just looked at has the same flammability rating as my can of butane lighter gas, and seeings as its mostly kero (i don't care what the company says) with a propellant (probably butane again) I cant see why it wouldn't still work.