Fireworks Rock!

[Mom]

I do not want to admit what I used to get up to with Fireworks..........I know that they are dangerous........irresponsible people using them can cause all sorts of mayhem..........but gee they used to be good fun...........anyone fancy sharing their stories????????

I will if you will.........

[Motu]

Grown ups were soooo stupid - they used to set a whole packet of Double Happies off at once,what a waste!!! Even worse was letting a whole packet of Tom Thumbs off - there were hundreds in a packet....crazy,totally crazy what Grown Ups would do on Guy Fox night.

[WarlockNZ]

Enjoy them while you can .. after the shit thats gone down so far this year .. you can bet they will be banned for public sale in 2007.

and that just sucks!

[James Deuce]

We used to use double happies to power paper darts. Cut one end off: instant solid fuel booster. Sweet.

There was the towel rail gun and seeing who could hold a double happy between thumb and forefinger as it exploded.

Setting off multiple rockets in sequence by tying them together with the spare fuses from double happy packets.

Good times.

[Colapop]

Being a responsible and trusted student at college (ok, I could break in after hours unnoticed) I had access to the science lab... Magnesium, Lithium, Salt Petre... You can make "super happies" with a toilet roll and a few choice ingredients. I'm surprised I'm (and a couple of mates) not dead! I did burst both eardrums (and lost my hearing) temporarily when I was lighting one and my mate dropped one about two fet away. Skyrockets were awesome for street wars too.

[pervert]

I still rate a well made sparkler bomb up there with all time favourites.

Seeing one blow a hole in a concrete wall impressed me to no end.

There's a video on the net somewhere of a guy setting off a sparkler bomb made of tens of thousands of them...very cool.

[chanceyy]

never been a fan of fireworks .. esp with those idiots who think its fun to torture animals with them .. awaiting the horror stories over the next few days


I remember when i was about 17 riding my horse down the road .. kids threw a stack of double happies behind him ... lucky that he was used to gun fire etc .. turned & chased them down .. bailed up against a fence til mommy came running out to protect johnny ... but if he was not used to it .. consequences would not have been pretty ..

Have never liked guy fawkes but i am quite happy to watch public displays

[merv]

Back in the 60's I loved the Mighty Cannons. Used to put them under a large milk powder tin and it would blow that right over the power lines above our house. Kaboom. Somehow we never got hurt and never set anything on fire.

Mind you my other trick in those days was fill a weedsprayer up with petrol, pump away and light the nozzle and instant flamethrower, no worries.

Hell we were never stupid enough to play with LPG sniffing it in the car and lighting a ciggy - no sir never that stupid.

[mikey]

blowing up letterboxes in rifle rd? (snobvil)

[Harry33]

Mini skyrockets and a plastic pipe was all I needed. I also used to Blow up slatter holes with tomthumbs when I was little. Biggest memory was having a blister on my thumb from the lighter the next day.

I haven't been into fireworks for years and to be honest I'd rather see it at a public display.

[The Pastor]

Bamboo and skyrockets are cool, you drill a hole in the end and poke the wick through then you have a gun! We used to get heaps of them and make a chain gun like on doom!

[Mom]

Grown ups were soooo stupid - they used to set a whole packet of Double Happies off at once,what a waste!!!

They were heaps more fun to light singly and chuck out car windows as you drove along...:innocent:


Being a responsible and trusted student at college (ok, I could break in after hours unnoticed) I had access to the science lab... Magnesium, Lithium, Salt Petre... You can make "super happies" with a toilet roll and a few choice ingredients. I'm surprised I'm (and a couple of mates) not dead! I did burst both eardrums (and lost my hearing) temporarily when I was lighting one and my mate dropped one about two fet away. Skyrockets were awesome for street wars too.

Remind me never to introduce you to my son......:lol: he makes his own bombs now, not sure I want him to learn the recipe for mass destruction..


Back in the 60's I loved the Mighty Cannons. Used to put them under a large milk powder tin and it would blow that right over the power lines above our house. Kaboom. Somehow we never got hurt and never set anything on fire.

Mind you my other trick in those days was fill a weedsprayer up with petrol, pump away and light the nozzle and instant flamethrower, no worries.

Hell we were never stupid enough to play with LPG sniffing it in the car and lighting a ciggy - no sir never that stupid.

I reckon there are degrees of stupid........making a flame thrower being the lower end of the scale.......:yes:
Mighty Cannons were the best for some quite major earth works as I recall.....:innocent:

[Meekey_Mouse]

I like fireworks ^_^ they are so cool. Just not in the hands of morons who hurt animals and blow up other peoples stuff.

But I do have to say... seeing things explode is fun :rockon:

[mart1]

Me and a mate ran out of fireworks one night so we filled a breadbag up with a neutral flame mix from an oxy/acetylene set, tied the bag and threw it on a fire. BANG !!! We blew out 3 of the neighbors windows and my ears rang the next day. Damn near shit myself.

[special_jimmy]

chasing trick or treaters with roman candles = lost of laughs, not actually shooting them just scaring the shit out of them. :ar15:

[Dadpole]

Mighty Cannons were the best for some quite major earth works as I recall.....:innocent:

Ahh... The Mighty Cannon.
The best off-the-shelf firework as I recall. A friend was chasing me with a lit one once when it went off in his hand. Decent burns and numbness for a day or so - pissed my self laughing as I retaliated in kind

[Finn]

And it's because we enjoy fireworks that this government will want to ban them. Remember, anything that is fun will be banned. Apparently you idiots need to be controlled some more.

I did find it amusing that the Fire Chief has been nudged to speak out. Wasn't one of his men recently prosecuted for setting fires? Therefore, under this governments thinking, ALL FIREMEN ARE PIROMANIACS. We should ban them too. Besides, they don't really do much. They're always late and when they do turn up, it's like a MOTAT rally.

And Chanceyy, mongrels don't need guy fawkes to hurt animals. They do really well without them.

We forget what Guy Fawkes stood for. We need more people like him, like now.

[98tls]

not exactly fireworks but i have seen a boat flare go off inside a police car...........:shit: i was young and stupid and myself and a friend were walking to the square in ch-ch where we were going to let them off...yea like i said young and stupid...we got picked up by a couple off cops..on the way to were we supposedly found said flares we were sitting in the back seat watching the cop pulling the lever/spring down and releasing it...he did it once to often and fuck me if it didnt go off...you have never seen 4 people exit a car as fast....then we stood there watching it bounce all around the inside off the police car.......quite a display......:shit:

[Motu]

Mighty Cannons were the best for some quite major earth works as I recall.....:innocent:

Bucklands Beach now has a retaining wall.....I hope we didn't do that much damage each year as we exgavated the bank with well placed charges....

As a ''grown up'' in my 20's I would fill balloons with oxy/acet and put them on the back seat of my car and take them to where ever we were going that year.Depending on the mix you could damn near shatter ear drums and destroy the bonfire,blowing it all over the yard.I'd hate to think what could of happened to my car if a stray spark got in there.....

[Mom]

Bucklands Beach now has a retaining wall.....I hope we didn't do that much damage each year as we exgavated the bank with well placed charges....

As a ''grown up'' in my 20's I would fill balloons with oxy/acet and put them on the back seat of my car and take them to where ever we were going that year.Depending on the mix you could damn near shatter ear drums and destroy the bonfire,blowing it all over the yard.I'd hate to think what could of happened to my car if a stray spark got in there.....

Do I know you??????.....lol I also have done some beach bank excavations in that area, although the fav place for us was Melons Bay....

Vandals we were

[MisterD]

We forget what Guy Fawkes stood for. We need more people like him, like now.

What!? Raving loony Catholic terrorists? Ok, I suppose we could set them on the raving loony Muslim terrorists.....

[Goblin]

As a ''grown up'' in my 20's I would fill balloons with oxy/acet and put them on the back seat of my car and take them to where ever we were going that year.Depending on the mix you could damn near shatter ear drums and destroy the bonfire,blowing it all over the yard.I'd hate to think what could of happened to my car if a stray spark got in there.....

Hahaha! My dad was the King of the Oxy/acet bomb! When I was about five he took my sister and I down to his workshop to make a bomb for Guy Fawkes. This was a car tube with a supposedly slow burning fuse in the valve part. Maria and I had to sit with it in the back of the old golden holden stationwagon to keep it safe as we drove home. When it was time to set the 'Bomb' off we all got a safe distance away as dad and Frank went and lit the fuse. They both started to run and it went off "BOOOOOOM!!!" The pair of them were blown about 20 feet in the air and we were all blown over by the shock wave.
We lived in Western Heights and the blast was heard from Eastside. All our ears were ringing for days. That was the best Guy Fawkes ever!

[Patrick]

Ahhh... the old oxy-acetylene bombs... used to make em up in elephant baloons (them big bastards) and wrap em in paper, light the paper and get outa there.

Were driving out of one spot when a Police patrol cruised on in... don't know who shat themselves more... me seeing the cops or the cops when the thing went off... I'm picking it was the cops when it went off...and we were long gone!!!

[placidfemme]

Back in Zim the average Joe counldn't really afford fireworks... so most people settled for the public displays at the local show grounds... a good 30 minutes of fireworks always excited us as kids...

The last 2 years here in NZ I've brought my own fireworks... the first time Sam and I set them off in the garden... and 4 of them went flying into the shed (made of tin) and bounced into the garden a few feet away from us and BOOM... scared the crap outta me...

Last year we got some more and set them off in the church car park next door... Was pretty windy and only one went astray and bounced along the ground before going BOOM... but miles away from us... so no problem...

This weekend just past Sams bro brought some (Dunno... like little sticks of dynamite... about 6cm long and 1cm wide... just makes a little display of sparkles and a PFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTT sound).

He placed one in a V bottle and screwed the lid on, made a nice light display but nothing great... then they got the V bottle again... still Hot from the first little thing... placed another one in it and threw it into the garden... and BANG glass bottle explodes and little shards of green glass all over the garden... I've got that on video on my phone lol... was funny but stupid

[Paul in NZ]

Do NOT try this....

4 gal kero tin with a suitably modified top, Truck Tyre valve and spark plug adaptor soldered / brazed in. Carefully put about 500ml petrol into it and screw cap on TIGHT. Connect to the air compressor and inflate until seams bulge. Bury can in a hole.

Connect plug to old car magneto.

stand well back (a different postal code)

Fire magneto

Appologise.....

The real fave was getting all the old failed model aircraft (rubber band type powered ones) from the year and fixing them up for the big night with mighty cannons in the cockpit and an extended fuse is possible. Flak at 10 O'clock skipper.....

[Sniper]

Im not allowed fireworks this year after setting St Albans park on fire :o

[Ixion]

So complicated. What was wrong with the mighty cannon tied to a sky rocket?

[Paul in NZ]

So complicated. What was wrong with the mighty cannon tied to a sky rocket?

Does not leave duckpond sized crater in the ground...

[Jonathan]

Fireworks are great! They don't need to be banned, just have on-the-spot castration for animal tormentors. Isn't it stupid that on the news they are always saying "no one wants to see an end to fireworks more than the firefighters", this is their most exciting time of the year! They love it!

That being said, I accidentally shot some guy in the back last year... Gave him cash for a new jacket though.

[aff-man]

home made are the best....
Chlorine bombs were pretty effective if done right
Home made rockets etc etc etc...

Always had fun blowing holes in my mates garden trying out different fuels.

Once I tried using suger as the fuel with and oxidiser and some other stuff. Just making little fizz rockets. (rolling the powder in paper, taping it up tight leaving one end open with a fuse). So I ran out of tape. Being the smartypants I am I decide to use a nail to hold this last one together.. Of course I hadn't crushed the sugar very well and so as soon as the nail hammered in the thing went off..... bloody HILARIOUS.

Oh and calcium hyperchloride/clorate works as a good oxydiser and gives off a nice red/pink flame. Put a bit of copper shards in and you get gree/blue.

[Motu]

I wonder if the locals are going to have the ''Battle in the Park'' over the road like last year? I have never seen so much ordinance going off,it would put any official event to shame.It was like being in a John Wayne movie with continous streams of tracer and grenades cannons and smoke.There was a bunker in the skateboard park and another in the trees and they were at it from 9.00pm to past midnight.I wonder if my camera has a manual shutter setting so I can get a good shot of the tracer?

I see my son in law has a broomstick with eight 20 shots tied around it,and inside and outside the bundle are big crackers.....and being an army type he has his camo uniform and camo paint gun helmet.Does he get picked for a team or will he be a lone agent?

[jeremysprite]

Can you still buy any of this crap nowadays, or do you have to have 'special access'? E.G. Oxy/acetylene? I know you a site which has a whole lot of fuse, chems etc to make some really special stuff, coupled with the anarchists cookbook and you could make some plastic explosives.

'Course, the easiest thing is (if you can get your mits on some) nitric acid on a cotton shirt, very unstable explosive, but no complex mixing etc involved.

[98tls]

'Course, the easiest thing is (if you can get your mits on some) nitric acid on a cotton shirt, very unstable explosive, but no complex mixing etc involved. Cheers......i work nightshift and the fucken neighbour keeps waking me up mowing lawns.........next time they hang out some washing.....WHAMMO...

[Finn]

What!? Raving loony Catholic terrorists? Ok, I suppose we could set them on the raving loony Muslim terrorists.....

Can't be more damaging than a Labour led government.

[Charlie]

Am a big fireworks fan but have moved across the ditch to Aus (been missing in action from KB for a bit) and am devistated to find that you can't buy fireworks ANYWHERE here! :angry:

[98tls]

Am a big fireworks fan but have moved across the ditch to Aus (been missing in action from KB for a bit) and am devistated to find that you can't buy fireworks ANYWHERE here! :angry: probably just as well......imagine the fires they would start over there....

[Charlie]

I know. Its only November and as I step outside you can smell bush fire.
It's not to say there is no fireworks here; you go to any entertainment at any time of the year and organisers usually put on a show thats pretty spectacular.

[Colapop]

You make friend wif asin. Asin have good fiework.

[Korumba]

This is cool..I may have got it from here, but its topical.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2134266654801392897&q=metals+and+water

[Mom]

Having an apprentice bomb maker in the family I really try to get over the multi-coloured craters in the back lawn......lol

[Colapop]

Just be thankful for the internet! So many recipes, so little access to ingrediants...

[Mom]

Just be thankful for the internet! So many recipes, so little access to ingrediants...

I used to work in the local farm supply, you would be really surprised what ingredients there are in a place like that.........my boss was paranoid about the youngsters coming in and buying some obscure stuff....

[geoffm]

I remember blowing anvils in the past. Take one anvil, upside down, add iberal quantity of black powder, add another anvil (right way up), light fuse and stand well clear. like http://www.anvilfire.com/news1/index12.htm
Nothing llike seeing 100kg+ of anvil 20-30 feet up in the air. They always come down point first. One year in Christchurch, they were a bit enthusiastic, and the cops turned up after we had finished. nope, no loud noises here - of course it is a blacksmiths shop so with the hammering officer, couldn't hear a thing. At Westport the cops turned up as well (along with the rest of the town). Since the copper had missed it the first time, had to do it again.... Different part of the world the West Coast.

[Patrick]

I remember blowing anvils in the past.

Anyone else spot the unfortunate comment here???

[98tls]

:yes: bling awarded.......

[Goblin]

Anyone else spot the unfortunate comment here???
:laugh: yes...which reminded me of my cousin Dave. When we had our blacksmith/farrier come out to shoe our horses, Dave decided to show us girls how tough he was by lifting the anvil. Only problem was when he put it down again he didn't realise his knob was underneath it and squashed it. Next day he had to show everyone his black and purple knob! :sick:

[Maha]

:laugh: yes...which reminded me of my cousin Dave. When we had our blacksmith/farrier come out to shoe our horses, Dave decided to show us girls how tough he was by lifting the anvil. Only problem was when he put it down again he didn't realise his knob was underneath it and squashed it. Next day he had to show everyone his black and purple knob! :sick:

Goblin im surprised....:gob:
Was dave......naked at the time of the said accident?....:shutup:
In saying that, i bet he saw the most prolific pyrotechnic's display moments after.....:lol:

[Goblin]

Goblin im surprised....:gob:
Was dave......naked at the time of the said accident?....:shutup:

Nah man, he had his shorts on. Just the anvil was at just the right(well wrong) height.:pinch:

That blowing up the anvils looks hilarious! Who thinks up that kinda shit!

[Goblin]

Ha! All the guys with the 'Mydickisbiggerthanyourdick' syndrome can see whose dick can handle the anvil.....could be a national sport in Dorkland. :laugh:

[Laava]

Oxy Acetylene is also good in headlights. Just knock the glass off the bulb, fill the glass light unit up with the "good" mix, stick the broken bulb back in and hey you've got exploding headlights in your or some other poor buggers car!:shit:

[Mr. Peanut]

Bamboo and skyrockets are cool, you drill a hole in the end and poke the wick through then you have a gun! We used to get heaps of them and make a chain gun like on doom!

My mate did that, rocket exploded. Deaf for days :mellow: