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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1781795" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>My brother was a master at designing things that blew up. There two that come to mind. The first was a real honest to goodness pipe bomb. An inch and a half 12 inch galvanized nipple with a cap at each end. A hole drilled for the homemade fuse. Stuffed full of black powder. The fuse was lit and everyone ran for cover. Nothing happened. After a bit Dane Johnson who was the youngest and dumbest kid in the neighborhood and our resident guinea pig was sent to check it. He stood right over it and said the fuse went out. Then "NO IT DIDN"T". He turned to run, took about 2 steps and tripped. About the time he hit the ground the bomb exploded sending shrapnel flying through the trees. Luckily Dane laying flat on the ground was missed.</p><p>The other thing was the brother's home made mortar. A piece of 2 inch pipe about 3 feet long. It had a cap on one end. In that cap he soldered a firing pin. He took some 12 ga shotgun shells and cut through the case just above the wad to get rid of the shot. He built mortar shells that had the shotgun shell fastened in the bottom. When dropped down the the pipe the the primer hit the firing pin with enough force to set it off. This sent his shell several hundred feet into the air. Before he could design a way to have the shell explode when it hit the ground the pipe mysteriously disappeared. It is possible Dad took it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1781795, member: 498"] My brother was a master at designing things that blew up. There two that come to mind. The first was a real honest to goodness pipe bomb. An inch and a half 12 inch galvanized nipple with a cap at each end. A hole drilled for the homemade fuse. Stuffed full of black powder. The fuse was lit and everyone ran for cover. Nothing happened. After a bit Dane Johnson who was the youngest and dumbest kid in the neighborhood and our resident guinea pig was sent to check it. He stood right over it and said the fuse went out. Then "NO IT DIDN"T". He turned to run, took about 2 steps and tripped. About the time he hit the ground the bomb exploded sending shrapnel flying through the trees. Luckily Dane laying flat on the ground was missed. The other thing was the brother's home made mortar. A piece of 2 inch pipe about 3 feet long. It had a cap on one end. In that cap he soldered a firing pin. He took some 12 ga shotgun shells and cut through the case just above the wad to get rid of the shot. He built mortar shells that had the shotgun shell fastened in the bottom. When dropped down the the pipe the the primer hit the firing pin with enough force to set it off. This sent his shell several hundred feet into the air. Before he could design a way to have the shell explode when it hit the ground the pipe mysteriously disappeared. It is possible Dad took it. [/QUOTE]
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