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Title: Potential for BBB 2015?
Post by: Tony on August 28, 2014, 08:27:59 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz8ow52LB4U ?  Heh
Title: Re: Potential for BBB 2015?
Post by: kamaangir on August 28, 2014, 10:46:54 AM
Bit tame really, we were doing that when i was 7 or 8.
We used to do it with coffee tins.  ;D
Title: Re: Potential for BBB 2015?
Post by: julianf on August 28, 2014, 11:15:03 AM
I cant remember the type of fertiliser, but you mixed it with sugar...

We did not manage to get it to explode though, just burn hotter than anything else we'd managed.  I think you needed to get the mixture better and compact it more for explosion?
Title: Re: Potential for BBB 2015?
Post by: orange vito on August 28, 2014, 04:29:05 PM
Tony.....................
If you drink enough of Vince's cider you'll just need to light a fart to get a similer effect!
Title: Re: Potential for BBB 2015?
Post by: Julian on August 28, 2014, 05:15:29 PM
I cant remember the type of fertiliser, but you mixed it with sugar...

We did not manage to get it to explode though, just burn hotter than anything else we'd managed.  I think you needed to get the mixture better and compact it more for explosion?

Wasn't that sodium chlorate (used to be sold as weed killer) and sugar?
Title: Re: Potential for BBB 2015?
Post by: RichardP on August 28, 2014, 06:19:26 PM
If you want to play with calcium carbide then this is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H5cwWVF3R8
Title: Re: Potential for BBB 2015?
Post by: julianf on August 28, 2014, 08:04:04 PM
I cant remember the type of fertiliser, but you mixed it with sugar...

We did not manage to get it to explode though, just burn hotter than anything else we'd managed.  I think you needed to get the mixture better and compact it more for explosion?

Wasn't that sodium chlorate (used to be sold as weed killer) and sugar?

It may have been.  It was long enough ago that i cant really pretend to remember.

I was 13 at the time.  Where did kids find out this kind of stuff, i wonder, pre internet?
Title: Re: Potential for BBB 2015?
Post by: Julian on August 28, 2014, 08:19:52 PM
... Where did kids find out this kind of stuff, i wonder, pre internet?

I think we used to talk to each other in those days!