Found this ancient picture of me >tfw I've been operating

Plz ATF, not doggo

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OP here starting us off

>Be like 14
>In Tijuana
>lighting off shitty M-80s with the local Mexican kids
>light M-80
>fuze shoots down into the body of the device
>instinctively chuck it out of my hand
>explodes 2 inches away from my fingers
>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>hand is burned and stings like a motherfucker
>go back to the hotel
>buy switchblade on the way back at the open air market
>dad beats the shit out of me for burning my hand
>compliments my new switchblade

And thats the day that I learned that pyrotechnic fuzes produce thrust and to always seal the fuze with hot glue when making IEDs

Unrelated EDC

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>>31647051
No doggos, I promise

<3

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>>31647069
No doggo, just kitters here. Plz no bully kitter Mr atf

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>>31647256
>dat flatpack
>dat kitty

No worries m8. Im not alphabet soup

>>31647069
>>31647256
>>31647280
This is now a /k/ritter thread

>>31647020
>be 10
>inna Lithuania
>ex-Soviet state so a lot of shitty, easy to acquire chemicals are being sold at the general store
>buy some drain cleaner and aluminium foil for "uncle who is cooking and also has blocked toilet"
>go next door to supermarket
>friends buy a few 2L bottles of cheap off-brand soda
>finish them off in like 5 mins
>start making little balls out of the foil, stick the balls into the empty bottles
>fill the bottles up with drain cleaner up to about 1/3rd
>cap on
Now all that accumulating gas from the corrosive shitty drain cleaner+disintegrating foil has nowhere to go, kids. What do you think it'll do?
>bottle starts fucking getting bigger and bigger in our hands
>we throw them under cars
>BOOM
>BANG
>POW
>all the car alarms go off in the block
>dogs start barking like mad

There was no EEEEEEE because we know how to handle explosives (or at least something close in this case)
Also have a few stories about the old "wrap a ping pong ball in foil" smoke bombs but they're not really interesting. We just make a shit tonne of those and threw them at eachother.

Oh and before anyone says "BUT ANON, YOU COULD'VE CAUSED DAMAGE TO THOSE CARS". When the (I'm assuming) acid eats up the foil in the bottle, it loses its ability to burn through shit. Got splashed once, it really didn't do shit.

>>31647494
Is not acid. Is a base. Also
gas produced was hydrogen. Not safe for throw under car.

>>31647494
You were producing hydrogen gas, shoulda lit a paper near the bottle

>>31647526
>>31647516
Well shit, I never knew that, thanks guys.

Oh and >>31647516 the cars weren't running. If they were then yeah I've got no doubt we would've been in the papers.

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>>31647494
OP again. Ohhh, the wonders of 2 liter bottles.

>delinquent teenager shows me how to make dry ice "bombs" when I was about 10
>proceed to make several hundred of them throughout my childhood and teenage years
>stick them in pumpkins on halloween

>smash picallo pete fireworks apart with hammer
>collect powder
>put it in plastic cling wrap
>put it in 2 liter bottler and screw top over cling wrap
>top has hole predrilled for fuze
>insert fuse
>light
>run
>car alarms for 2 blocks go off

Later in my teen years I discovered that "smart water" bottles were way WAAAAAY stronger. Made them a few times but decided to stop. The amont of pressure they can contain is actually getting into the area of holy shit this is dangerous. Got a piece of plactic embedded in my friends arm from about 20 feet away.

>>31647020
Got a story about a somewhat legit homemade shotgun.

>be 14 inna MD
>going to the grocery store and see them selling several hundred individual boxes of matches
>buy for 10 dollars
>i proceed to spend the next two days scraping red phosphourous off the strikers
>also scrape potassium chlorate off match heads.
> get old brass casings and fill them with armstrongs mixture
>build shitty firing pin and trigger out of old hardrive and make a shitty stock and barrel.
>load paper wads and about 100 lead pellets.
>tie it behind pine tree and attach about 100 feet of twine
>plsnodeath.jpg
>pull the string and it sounds like fucking lightning strike 3 feet away.
>survey damage and find pellets embedded about 3 inches into the tree.

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>>31647659
That reminded me of something else.
>still inna Lithuania
>still 10
>m8s are making these fun little pussy-ass "rockets"
>there were these big matches that had bigger heads than normal ones
>they'd buy a box of them, wrap a bit of foil around the head
>burn the foil with a lighter or some shit
>match goes shooting away
>this makes me think, if a match can be propelled by making its burst of fire go down one little pipe then it could also be used to propel something else
>make a match rocket
>put a pebble inside it
>gone in a second
>genuis.jpg
>get 6 or 7 matches, wrap them all in foil and put a bigger pebble in the foil
>shoots and there's an actual bit of recoil
>slight burns on my hands
>granddad's a plumber so he always has pipes of all kinds
>get pipe (about 4ish inches long so I don't become a burn victim)
>Stick a shitload of matches in one side, head-first
>stick metal bearings in the other end
>mfw
>wait shit how do I fire it
>oh fuck it I'll just light the other side of the matches
>wait a few mins
>matches finally burn, about to set the heads on fire
>ffffzzzzzzt
>the bearings shot out but the matchheads also shot out the back, so it was all pretty shit
>fission mailed

>>31647761
Oh fuck. I should've done that back in the old country.
Shame that fun laws are so bad there.

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>>31647020
Me playing airsoft, age 14.

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1/3

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>>31649096
2/3

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>>31649112
3/3

>10 year old city kid from seattle
>friends of my dad invite us out to their cabin in Cle elum or somewhere out in the boonies
>my dad owned a shotgun but only took it out once a year for pheasant hunting and i wasn't old enough to go, so i had never fired a gun before
>bring my shitty old ass ipod loaded up with 2pac and Credence clearwater revival
>they are total gun nuts
>after 2 days of messing around they set me loose in the woods alone with a sweet ass .38spl from the 70s and a pocket full of ammo
>unironically listening to >it aint me while wandering through the woods
>dad buys a yugo mauser when we get back and we go shooting often

If it hadn't been for the family friends i might still be noguns