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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1820358" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>I made exactly 1 (one) pipe bomb. Using powder from a crapload of .22 shorts that were sitting in a wooden box in Dad's garage, corroded all to heck. 4" threaded steel nipple. A cap on each end and a little hole for a fuse.No fuses available so I pieced together about 10 firecracker fuses and laid the thing on top of the trash in Mom's burn barrel. I just lit the trash, backed of about 20 feet and waited. It blew the old rusty barrel apart and got all the neighbors out to see what blew up. I got my butt beat over that.</p><p></p><p>(Years later, I had been a door gunner about 3 months in RVN and noticed some of the other gunner had a 7.62 projectile on their dog tag chain. I decided to go one better and used an old .50 cal round (they weren't hard to find, laying everywhere out in the crashed helo junkyard behind the concrete revetments) I got the projectile out easy enough, then put it in the vice by the little GSE shack and started drilling a hole, when a big tongue of white fire jetted out of the partially drilled hole. Melted the bit, burned all 4 of the fingers that were in front of the drill handle. dumbass... A tracer or incendiary round that the paint marking had long ago faded away. White phosphorus burns quick and HOT! I threw the thing away, cleaned the burn up myself and never tried it again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1820358, member: 18945"] I made exactly 1 (one) pipe bomb. Using powder from a crapload of .22 shorts that were sitting in a wooden box in Dad's garage, corroded all to heck. 4" threaded steel nipple. A cap on each end and a little hole for a fuse.No fuses available so I pieced together about 10 firecracker fuses and laid the thing on top of the trash in Mom's burn barrel. I just lit the trash, backed of about 20 feet and waited. It blew the old rusty barrel apart and got all the neighbors out to see what blew up. I got my butt beat over that. (Years later, I had been a door gunner about 3 months in RVN and noticed some of the other gunner had a 7.62 projectile on their dog tag chain. I decided to go one better and used an old .50 cal round (they weren't hard to find, laying everywhere out in the crashed helo junkyard behind the concrete revetments) I got the projectile out easy enough, then put it in the vice by the little GSE shack and started drilling a hole, when a big tongue of white fire jetted out of the partially drilled hole. Melted the bit, burned all 4 of the fingers that were in front of the drill handle. dumbass... A tracer or incendiary round that the paint marking had long ago faded away. White phosphorus burns quick and HOT! I threw the thing away, cleaned the burn up myself and never tried it again. [/QUOTE]
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