Here's a Project For You
Making a Bolt Cannon (saw this on Leverguns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN8LCPWY_no
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Here's a Project For You
I find the match head powder intriguing.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CMGYUmYLhAo&pp=ygUMTWF0Y2ggcG93ZGVy
What he made was more like priming compound ....
I have used match heads for gunpowder. In a cartridge the primer will set them off just fine. And it's not as explosive as the way he mixed it up. I understand that for a fuse to light it off you need it to be more explosive.
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In my pre-adolescent life, ca late 60s
I longed very much for Estes model rockets. To this day I've never had or even shot one, so I guess it wasn't a real need.
BTW, they're still around, I've discovered.
Point is, Estes ads pushed their product as safer than home rigged rocket motors which apparently blew up and maimed fine American lads.
The most common one I recall being described was an airgun C02 cartridge stuffed full of powdered matchheads. I'd LOVE to blow one up under controlled conditions, but I also read even the process of stuffing the cartridge is dangerous, let alone INTENTIONALLY igniting it.
One particularly "inventive" afternoon...
by Hoot 
, Diversityville, Liberal-sota, Thursday, February 22, 2024, 18:37 (276 days ago) @ A K Church
Louie and I cut a small hole in a ping-pong ball and stuffed it full of wooden kitchen match heads. We (being basic knuckle-heads) lit it with both of us bending over the contraption. Apparently God looks out for little children and idiots because it didn't explode or anything dramatic. It burned. Impressive? You betcha. Disappointed? Yes, we were. Blessed? Absolutely.