Colonial Sudan - 10mm

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I'm a huge fan of black powder

Take care

Andy

Dont smoke round it !

[Techno]

When I was about 10.....I tried making some 'black powder'....(With components from my chemistry set)...Crammed it all into a matchbox......Taped all around it with selotape, so it was nice and REALLY tight....Bored a hole in one end, and put a fuse in it.

Lit fuse...and was most disappointed when it just produced a load of 'steam' (for quite a while) instead of exploding.

I'd forgotten about that.....I started trying to injure myself at an early age, didn't I ?

That's reminded me of another daft thing I did in my later teens with some 'crow scarers'.....They did go BANG, big (sic)......But I wasn't the one that was close to it when it went 'boom'.

Cheers - Anne Idiot.

[Steve J]

We used to scrape the powder from cap gun cartridges, make it into a pile and then surround with Airfix figures, then light it! It made a hell of a smell as it burnt the figures, which makes me shudder these days, but I suppose we had grown out of them at that point.