young tinkerer

[zach103]

Re: young tinkerer

I think the cop shouldn't have cared but when we called he should have at least said Hi im blank withe the police department..

 

[mike64]

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Reminds me of when I made my own gunpowder when i was 12-13. I told my Jr. high science teacher (who was a very cool teacher) about it, and he said "bring some in and we'll test it out!" So the next day we lit some in class. I forgot to mention to him how much smoke it created-- filled up the classroom until you could hardly see. This was at the end of class, so I left as the bell rang and the room was full of smoke, and passed the very angry looking principal on my way out. I imagine he heard it pretty good from the principal

 

[mommicked]

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Ive never made or seen a 2liter bottle rocket,except on tv and youtube.when we were young we made beer can bazookas w duct tape and liquid zippo lighter fluid.great fun!I remember a friends got flooded one night and he looked down the barrel to see what was wrong?WWWOOOOFFFFF!!! it singed his eyebrows and his hair! and we all laughed for 10 mins.we also put tennis balls in them.maybe video games are good for something.then theres the pvc potatoe cannon.thats another post/story.....

 

[dolluper]

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Bombs made easy all over the net for kids to surf...just don't p them off or else...the cop was just being a cop he just forgot 2 id himself...that professinal and maybe a little to nosey

 

[Philip_G]

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some kids got in big trouble around here messing with dry ice bombs, got ruled as an explosive device. Amazing.

 

[xxxflhrci]

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eh...forget it...

 

[avenger79]

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Ive never made or seen a 2liter bottle rocket,except on tv and youtube.when we were young we made beer can bazookas w duct tape and liquid zippo lighter fluid.great fun!I remember a friends got flooded one night and he looked down the barrel to see what was wrong?WWWOOOOFFFFF!!! it singed his eyebrows and his hair! and we all laughed for 10 mins.we also put tennis balls in them.maybe video games are good for something.then theres the pvc potatoe cannon.thats another post/story.....

yep we had tennis ball cannons to. they were awesome, ah the good ole days.

 

[Dave Barnett]

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I'm rather ashamed to admit that I am hypocritical on issues like these. When I was a kid we made and shot potato guns. Cap a sewer pipe drill a touch hole, add some lighter fluid shove a tator down the barrel and touch it off. We made home grown fireworks. I remember using carbide broken off from an old 6 volt battery in a baby food jar to make a fishing bomb. All of this was great fun.

Now that I am older however, I would have been hard to console if my own kids had done this and I had found out (they prob did they just kept it under the radar). The danger involved in this kind of activity is just too great. In a controlled environment with the right supervision I say ok, but the teacher in the original post placed a lot of kids in a potentially dangerous situation. I don't see that the cop "checking things out" was in the wrong, but the way he handled it was very wrong.

 

[mommicked]

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Dont try this at home!!! I was gonna start a new post but i guess this one works.The same friend I reflected on in the Stupid mechanical blunders thread.(the welder). 14 or 16 Y.O.another tinkerer.His dad offered him $100 to remove a very large whiteoak stump from their front yard. He and dad had used a backhoe for 8 hrs and were having trouble w the roots/hard Red clay and rocks.I guess he thought Doug would whittle away at it till it was gone.But he had better Ideas.unsupervised,He drilled a 1" hole in the middle of the stump,w/a brace and bit and welded extensions on the bit, until he had drilled very deeply into the stump.then he got the trusty black powder and poured it down the hole.just enough.he then added a fuse,filled the hole w sand,and packed clay at the top.he lit the fuse and ran back.(He used a little to much powder).the blast blew out his and some of his neighbors across the streets front windows!and the falling debris damaged 4 or 5 roofs!Nobody was hurt thank God,and the stump was about gone!! He spent the rest of his summer fixing the damage to the homes.needless to say his dad was very specific w his requests for his son to help him after that!!!