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Well here ya' go "The pyromaiac's super Handbook"!!! **************************************************************************** ------------------------CUT HERE---------------------CUT HERE--------------- For you people that like blowing things up and shit like that, here's something that's not as dangerous or as difficult as more of the explosives available (or able to create)... It's called the LN2 Bomb (Short for Liquid Nitrogen Bomb). Very easy to make: Ingredients: 1 Plastic Two Litre Bottle Enough Liquid Nitrogen To Fill The Bottle Instructions: Fill the bottle with liquid nitrogen. Then cap as tightly as possible. The vaporization of the nitrogen will create enough pressure in the bottle (within 5-15 minutes) to break it with a quite strong explosive force... Very Easy... USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.... FLAMABILITY OF GASES: ------------------------- Type: Gas Explosive Ingredients: Explosive Gas Description: Under some conditions, common gases act as fuel. When mixed with air, they will burn rapidly or even explode. For some fuel-air mixtures, the range over which the explosion can occur is quite wide while for others the limits are narrow. The upper and lower amounts of common fuels that will cause an ignitable mixture are shown in the table below. The quantity shown is the percentage by volume of air. If the fuel-air mixture is too lean or too rich, it will not ignite. The amounts shown are therefore called limits of inflamability. Gases (% by volume of air) Fuel (Gas) Lower Limit Upper Limit ------------------------------- ----------- ----------- Water Gas Or Blue Gas 7.0 72 Natural Gas 4.7 15 Hydrogen 4.0 75 Acetylene 2.5 81 Propane 2.2 10 Butane 1.9 9 !!!WARNING!!! !!!This Shit Could Kill U!!! ----------->Fire Works******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Next to the Roman Candle, these are perhaps the most popular articles of the pyrotechnical craft and, on good authority, apparently antedate the candle. So much has been written about sky rockets that any detailed description would be superfluous. The French, particularly, have left a most complete history, sometimes amusing, in view of the present status of rocket manufacture. The rocket consists of a tube of paper rammed with suitable composition, its lower end choked to about one-third of the diameter of its bore, and having a hollow center extending upward through the composition to about 3/4 of an inch of the top. A stick attached to the tube serves to balance it while ascending. Roughly, the composition of a rocket, that is, the portion of it that is burning while it is ascending, should be seven times its diameter in length. Six-sevenths is pierced through the center while one-seventh is solid and acts as a fuse to communicate the fire to the heading when the rocket reaches the highest point of its flight. The tube is made of strong paper, preferably 3 turns of hardware paper on the inside with 4 or more turns of straw board or Kraft paper on the outside. A good rocket case can also be made of heavy rag or building paper, if it is properly rolled with good paste. The process of choking the case and ramming in a mold has been practically discontinued. Good rockets should be uniform, all those of one caliber ascending to the same height and bursting at about the same time. This is particularly desirable in bouquets of 100 or more, fired simultaneously, or a straggling effect is produced. Most rockets larger than 3 ounces are rammed singly or by gang rammers, which can be built on a custom basis. Today, hydraulic rammers are also in use. For very large rockets, a scoop of clay is shaken in and rammed with eight good blows of a mallet on the longest rammer. Then, a scoopful of composition is rammed with about eight lighter blows. This is repeated until the case is filled to about 1 inch from the top. Shift rammer as it becomes necessary to use shorter ones. There should be 1 inch of solid composition above the top end of the spindle. Now the final charge of clay is put in and the hollow pin rammer is used. This sets the clay while leaving an opening for the fire to reach the heading. Care must be used to see that the hollow tube just pierces the clay. If it does not go through, the heading will fail to fire; if it goes too far, the heading will fire prematurely. (The heading is the blast charge or whatever you want to ignite) the following are good compositions for rockets of the different sizes given: (given in weighted parts) 1-3 ounces 4-8 ounces 1-3 pounds 4-8 pounds Potassium Nitrate 18 16 16 18 Mixed Coal 10 9 12 12 Sulfur 3 4 3 3 If rockets burst before ascending, add more coal; if they ascend too slowly, add more Potassium Nitrate. For the smaller sizes, use fine coal, for larger, coarser in proportion to the diameter. In 4-8 pound rockets, use partly granulated Potassium Nitrate. SERPENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The eggs for producing this remarkable article consists of small pelletLE Ont aulfocyanide (thiocyanate) of mercury which has the remarkable property of swelling 25-50 times its original size when lighted, producing a ling, snake- like ash. To prepare it, make a concentrated solution of mercuric chloride and add, little by little, a solution of potassium sulfocyanide, stirring constantly. A grayish precipitate will be formed, and when the last addition nt aulfocyanide no longer produces cloudiness, permit the mixture to settle. Drain the supernatant liquid off as much as possible, remove the precipitate to a filter paper, placed in a glass funnel, and wash slightly. When it is thoroughly dried, reduce it to a fine powder. When ready to for the eggs, moisten the composition very sparingly with a weak solution of gum arabic which may be added a pinch of potassium nitrate and, made into cones, by ramming. However, this product is poisonous to man and other living species, since it is composed of cyanide and mercury. Thus, another formula has been devised to accommodate safety. A safer version of the above serpent can be made of the following: Naphtha pitch (10), Linseed oil (2), Fuming nitric acid (7), and Picric acid (3 1/2). Reduce the pitch to a fine powder; add linseed oil and mix well in a mortar. Add the fuming nitric acid, always a little at a time, Allow to cool for 1 hour. Wash several times with water, the last time allowing the mass to stand in the water for several hours. Dry thoroughly; powder finely and add picric acid, rubbing it in well. Moisten with gum arabic water and form into pelletL about the size of a #4 star. SMOKES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This branch of pyrotechny seems to have been somewhat overlooked, though its possibilities for daylight entertainment as a supplement of night displays could open an interesting field for those with enough imagination to develop it. There are as many colors and tints of smoke as there are flames and aerial combinations. The simplest form of the smoke used in pyrotechny is the smoke pot, as used in spectacles like THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII and BURNING OF ROME, where it is desired to give the effect of destruction by fire. Smoke and spark posts consist of short cases about 4-6 inches in diameter and 6-12 inches in length. A basic formula subject to variation is: Smoke 1 Smoke 2 Spark 1 White Potassium Nitrate 4 6 --- 12 Lampblack 1 --- --- --- Fine Charcoal 1 --- 1 1 Realgar 1 --- --- --- Rosin 1 --- --- --- Sulfur --- 1 1/4 --- 16 Antimony Sulfide --- 1 --- --- Meal Powder --- 1 2 --- Sawdust --- --- 1 --- WHISTLING FIREWORKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The peculiar property of picrate of whistling while burning has been known for a long time. You can manufacture whistling fireworks using this substance. In a porcelain receptacle, dissolve 1 pound of picric acid in the least possible quantity of boiling water; add 1/4 pound of potassium carbonate, a little at a time, stirring continuously. When effervescence has subsided, add 1 pound of powdered potassium nitrate. Stir thoroughly, allow to stand for an hour and then place it on a heavy piece of filter paper in a glass funnel, to drain. When it is dry, crush to a fine powder with a wooden roller. Although this is a reasonably safe composition, only small quantities should be handled at a time, as an explosion will cause disastrous result, or will they? heh heh. The dry powder may be rammed into tubes from 1/4 to 3/4 inches in diameter, and will produce the whistling sound when burned. Bamboo tubes are most effective. Owing to the ease with which potassium picrate detonates, whistles cannot be use in shells, but small tubes, 1/4 inches in diameter and 2 1/2 inches long, when charged with the above composition, may be placed in the heads of rockets or fastened to the outside and arranged to burn while the rocket is ascending. Attached to wheels, they are quite amusing, but the most effective use for them is in a series of six or eight, ranging in size from 1/4 to 3/4 inches in diameter, set side by side like a Pandean pipe and burned simultaneously. A non--picrate whistle, safer than the one above, is made from potassium chlorate (3), and Gallic acid (1). This composition makes a very good whistle I'm sure all of you are familiar with the Bic lighter, and I'm also sure you've tried to make the Bic Flamethrower at one time or another. Well... here's 2 more things you can do, First off is the Bic Rocket, and then the Bic Sparkler. Both work almost every time! Enjoy... MATERIALS NEEDED: 2 or more Bic lighters (the big kind) 1 large open parkinglot with noncombustible material surrounding it DIAGRAM: - NORMAL TOP AND SIDE - - TOP AND SIDE, FLME BLOCKER REMOVED - Flame |Flame Blocker /=========\ Striker \ __ | ___ // \ / +_/__|<-+->|_+_| ||M +_O== <-+ .0. |:....| | | ||A |:....| | | | | : | | | ||G | : | | | | | : | | | ||N | : | | | | Fuel --->| : |<-+ | | ||I | : | | | | Area 1 | : | | | | ||F | : | | | | |__:__| | |___| ||Y |__:__| | |___| | || | |Fuel Area 2 // |Fuel Valve // __ // Striker--> / \ <==========/ \__/ . Flint--> I # Spring--> # PREPARATION: First, hit the back side of the flame blocker against something and break it off. Take off the striker and get the spring and flint. Set them aside somewhere safe for later use. Next pull off the Fuel Valve, and put your fingure over the hole where the fuel comes out and shake it up. Leave your fingure on the hole. LAUNCHING: Find someplace where you can lay the lighter so the bottom faces up. Set it there, take the other lighter and light the rocket. It should burn just like it normally does, except the flame should be melting the plastic. It melts down to the fuel and... one of three things happens: It flies up into the air and explodes (usually about 10-20 feet up), Skips along the ground, or just explodes. It usually takes about 2 minutes for it to burn through the plastic. What every you do, don't go back to the lighter after it's been burning for more than 1 minute. And only go back if the flame went out! BIC SPARKLER: This isn't really a sparkler, but it sure is fun. Take the flint and the spring you set aside from the rocket and wrap the flint in the spring, like this, you pull the sprint, put the flint in the middle, like a plus sign, and then twist the spring once so it looks like this: Flint \ || ."||". <- Spring ." ". " " Then hold it over the flame of the one lighter you have left until it starts to wrinkle up or get red. Then throw it against a wall and whoosh, sparks fly everywhere and there's a little char mark left on the wall. CONCLUSION: Enjoy these, they're lots of fun at parties when everyones drunk, the sparkler is really trippy then. They are both best at night, but good during the day as well. ****************************************************************************** Holy Fucking Shit my hands are tired!!! That was the longest article I typed thus far in this publication's youth. 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