Any bored plumbers or heating engineers.......?

[silverclaws]

This is mad !

http://youtu.be/vePqxFN9s0U

And that's hairspray, undoubtedly the butane propellant in the can...


Then there's this....

http://youtu.be/CejsxceoSgc

 

[mattbrown]

reminds me of my childhood - using aerosol cans then butane camping gas canisters to propel a tennis ball out of a metal tube the length of a field - oh happy days

 

[barry2017]

I saw a boy playing with one of those with his dad.

It was a brilliant toy, and the spuds went a couple of hundred yards into a valley. Good stuff.

 

[gavinda]

I used to take 2 boxes of 'Cooks' matches and a box of 'Swan Vestas', cut all the heads off and put them in the vestas box. Then seal it tightly with gaffa tape and chuck it in the road for a car torun over and 'detonate' :twisted:

 

[dyna-ti]

I used to take 2 boxes of 'Cooks' matches and a box of 'Swan Vestas', cut all the heads off and put them in the vestas box. Then seal it tightly with gaffa tape and chuck it in the road for a car torun over and 'detonate' :twisted:

You can get 20 yrs for that now

 

[gavinda]

below the legal age of responsibility.

mind you that was the least of what i got up to, yet still i managed to respect my elders, the police, teachers and all other figures of authority.


not getting caught also helped

 

[1duck]

i made one of these years back when i was on 56k and read about it on an american site. Sticking glowsticks in the potato or breaking a glow stick and pouring it on the potato made tracer rounds for use at night! A great laugh if you have a bit of open land around you.

 

[gavinda]

also, dont pack that tatty too tight, lest you make an award winning potato gun.