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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 7, 2016 20:40:28 GMT
They do quite a good canal boat sylvanian family thing...complete with stove I got one for my granddaughter a year or two ago - from Ebay or a charity shop. Would be great if I could get her (and her little sister) introduced to the canals and boating. Sadly my daughter has turned herself into a vegetable vegetarian and I think is scared that if her kids are alone with me I will feed them meat.
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 7, 2016 20:48:14 GMT
You can buy moose calendars in Finland:
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Post by phil70 on Dec 7, 2016 20:49:18 GMT
I'm not going to go into details for safety reasons, but; My childhood was partially spent building things that were propelled by discarded camping gas cylinders, sometimes they worked sometimes not. How the eff we all lived through it I don't know. I was fortunate, the school I went to possessed a pre-war edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Published as it was before the fears of the modern world it contained formulae and precise instructions for the making of all sorts of things of great interest to small boys ....... particularly material that went "Bang" Being of a similar age as John, I too spent a considerable amount of time with my mates making stuff which went bang. I obviously got away with it though one close shave did slow me down a bit. I drilled a hole in a tree in out garden and packed the hole with single shot caps, placed a metal dowel in the hole and hit it with a spade, after 3 or 4 good wangs with the spade the point of ignition was reached and an ear splitting blast ensued with a large lump of tree flying across the garden. My Dad was not amused. As an apprentice we did something similar with a block of metal in a vice with the dowel in a reamed hole, the explosive was provided by red match heads scraped off. The rule was that whenever anyone passed the vice they had to give the dowel a whack with a handy hammer. This went on all day till somebody hit home, the result was the foreman gave us all a severe bollocking and one of us was sent up to patch the hole in the roof. Happy Days. π Phil
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 7, 2016 20:57:05 GMT
Does anybody remember making nut and bolt bombs?
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 7, 2016 20:58:06 GMT
My childhood was partially spent building things that were propelled by discarded camping gas cylinders, sometimes they worked sometimes not. How the eff we all lived through it I don't know. My dad used to live here - whole house to himself: There were air raid shelters in the woods and one was my camp, very deep underground, three chambers/rooms. With friends, we'd make a bonfire at the bottom of the cylindrical escape hatch at the end of the last chamber, then go on top of the mound and pour jerry cans of petrol down into the hole. The flames would shoot up like a rocket tail! (Frogmore Hall, Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire) (living room window top left) (I have cut that lawn with a Flymo a few times for pocket money)
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Post by Gone on Dec 7, 2016 21:01:05 GMT
Does anybody remember making nut and bolt bombs? 2 bolts, a nut and red match heads? If so yes, happy days.
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 7, 2016 21:01:18 GMT
Does anybody remember making nut and bolt bombs? With caps in them? There also used to be plastic rockets with a nib on a spring - you put a cap in and throw the rocket up and it lands on the nib making the cap go bang. One of my favourite things (still is) is cutting open fireworks, different sorts, and mixing the gunpowder together and putting it in a paper bag; then you make a trail of gunpowder as a (long!!) fuse. The POOF! we called a 'genie'.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 21:05:24 GMT
My apprenticeship was spent partly working on equipment shown here
But largely on long pub lunches and sleeping off said lunches on my bed on top off the cable runs - a bit of fettling with a very large battery bank was also carried out.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 7, 2016 21:08:15 GMT
Does anybody remember making nut and bolt bombs? With caps in them? There also used to be plastic rockets with a nib on a spring - you put a cap in and throw the rocket up and it lands on the nib making the cap go bang. One of my favourite things (still is) is cutting open fireworks, different sorts, and mixing the gunpowder together and putting it in a paper bag; then you make a trail of gunpowder as a (long!!) fuse. The POOF! we called a 'genie'. You can't get proper dangerous fireworks any more, virtually all of these are illegal nowadays...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 21:09:39 GMT
Does anybody remember making nut and bolt bombs? Β With caps in them?Β There also used to be plastic rockets with a nib on a spring - you put a cap in and throw the rocket up and it lands on the nib making the cap go bang.Β Great toy and still available My favourite fireworks in the late 80s/early 90s were "air bombs" mini mortars. If you fired them down into the water the thing kept going and blew up like a mini depth charge. Very impressive. My chemistry teacher explained that they produce their own oxygen (or something like that) which is why they don't get extinguished by the water. Great fun but I think they banned that particular one.
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Post by IainS on Dec 7, 2016 21:45:51 GMT
We had to make ours: 2d banger stuffed into a 4d rocket with the launcher made from a bit of wood and a coupe of staples. Getting the timing/launch angle right for an airburst was a bit of an art ....
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Post by Trina on Dec 7, 2016 22:43:16 GMT
I had a set of 4 books called,'The World of the Children'-there were detailed descriptions of how to make your own fireworks( & other such jolly japes).Never made the exciting stuff,but enjoyed reading how to do it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 22:59:23 GMT
Does anybody remember making nut and bolt bombs? I've progressed , but won't detail πππππ
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 23:53:26 GMT
Β With caps in them?Β There also used to be plastic rockets with a nib on a spring - you put a cap in and throw the rocket up and it lands on the nib making the cap go bang.Β One of my favourite things (still is) is cutting open fireworks, different sorts, and mixing the gunpowder together and putting it in a paper bag; then you make a trail of gunpowder as a (long!!) fuse. The POOF! we called a 'genie'. You can't get proper dangerous fireworks any more, virtually all of these are illegal nowadays... Anyone remember indoor fireworks?
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Post by IainS on Dec 8, 2016 0:59:12 GMT
I had a set of 4 books called,'The World of the Children'-there were detailed descriptions of how to make your own fireworks( & other such jolly japes).Never made the exciting stuff,but enjoyed reading how to do it. I had a single volume work entitled "Pastimes for Boys", or something similar. It described how to make fireworks, and how to make the gunpowder. It didn't mention that it was a good idea to use a separate bit of sandpaper to grind each of the ingredients, though.
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