4th of July fun with sparklers and tape! (vid)

[ragincajun]

i know its been a few days since the 4th but i finally got my bro to get our vid off of his camera. here is what 36 sparklers, 1/2 roll of electrical tape and some pvc tape will so for ya. hope home land security doesnt see this! lol

gotta love explosives

 

[XXL]

Was that a 55 gal. drum? Wholly crap!!

 

[ragincajun]

ya. we had to use a plastic one becasue we blew the bottom out of a metal one earlier lol

 

[bonebreaker zack]

teach me, i wanna learn

 

[cmantle1]

that was good, but there have been WAAAAYYYY better ones made....the secret is less sparklers and more tape...trust me.

try like 5 rolls of tape instead of just 1/2 of one...

 

[SAWYER]

nice

 

[ragincajun]

that was good, but there have been WAAAAYYYY better ones made....the secret is less sparklers and more tape...trust me.

try like 5 rolls of tape instead of just 1/2 of one...

i know the more tape the better but electerical tape is xpensive as hell! lol

we built a 12 boxer once and blew the latching door off an old 50's style fridge lol. door went about 100' in the air and made it go from rectangular to round lol

 

[T-Bone]

Ah yes, another youth learning about the joys of sparkler bombs. Dry ice bombs are also fun, but a lot more unpredictable.

 

[yammerhammer]

Someone want to PM this youth some instructions on how to manufacture said device?

 

[IWantATurbo]

Me too!!! pretty sure i won't make one but would like to understand how!!!

 

[yammerhammer]

Got it!

A simple internet search will yeild good info.

 

[zach477]

A little internet searching should give ya the info you need on how to build one. Just be carefull with those things, a 26 yr old built one with 3 rolls of tape and 4 boxes of sparkerlers last year and it went off in his hands(tring to get the lid open to a steel garbage after he lit it). My old college room mate was one of the first responders on the scene......trying to be respectfull here, but the biggest part of the kid that was left would fit in a 5 gallon bucket..... my buddy said he will never forget what he saw that day.

 

[adrenaline junkey]

Lmao that's funny just use aluminum powder (German black is the best) potassium perchlorate and any container. you can also roll your own tubes out of construction paper and a 1 inch dowel or so i hear

 

[Motley Doo]

Fawk that! Oxy-Acetalene torch, get a good oxidation flame burning, snuff it out, fill two 48" beach balls and three 24"s, stack in a pile, little bit of gas for a stringer, light and run like hell! Knocked the pictures off the wall in the house a hundred yards away. I have a video of it on my phone, but can't figure out how to get it on the computer! Ski-doo'in it can back up my story! haha!

 

[cubby]

Use to only work with red sparklers, been along time since I made one of those can you just use any color now?

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

Fawk that! Oxy-Acetalene torch, get a good oxidation flame burning, snuff it out, fill two 48" beach balls and three 24"s, stack in a pile, little bit of gas for a stringer, light and run like hell! Knocked the pictures off the wall in the house a hundred yards away. I have a video of it on my phone, but can't figure out how to get it on the computer! Ski-doo'in it can back up my story! haha!

haah. yep. you want to destroy stuff, oxy/actylene is NUTS!! i was at this kids house and the beach balls will crush things, the videos are kinda useless as most camera equipment will just not really even get it. the concusion is whats really impressive!

 

[ragincajun]

everyone has their own way to make them. it does not matter what color you use of if they are metal or wooden. just as long as they burn fast. we have messed with dry ice bombs but i dont like them. too dangerous. thats why we stick to sparkler bombs. a friend of mine can set them off with a power strip now lol.

 

[jaysonfreerider]

that is SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SoDakCat]

Fawk that! Oxy-Acetalene torch, get a good oxidation flame burning, snuff it out, fill two 48" beach balls and three 24"s, stack in a pile, little bit of gas for a stringer, light and run like hell! Knocked the pictures off the wall in the house a hundred yards away. I have a video of it on my phone, but can't figure out how to get it on the computer! Ski-doo'in it can back up my story! haha!

Acetalene is very fun to play around with. We would make acetalene bombs doing the same thing and filling up 20oz pop bottles and use a sparkler in the lable to set them off with. Oh ya if you fill up a gallon jug and put it under a metal bucket it will shoot the bucket over a highline pole and make it oval... or so Ive been told.

We had a guy in town set off sparkler bombs with a long roll of wire with alligator clamps and battery. Worked pretty good and was instant.

 

[ragincajun]

my buddy leaves 2 wires hangin out of the top and he takes the old lamp cord and wires them up and plugs it into the power strip. when he flips the little red switch it goes boom in an instant. we want to try one in water lol