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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    Just need a blocked off pipe, a ball bearing, fuse and some black powder. Cost of materials, about a fiver. Much better value for money than all that planet killing plastic.
    Funnily enough, it was plastic that saved Sea Turtles from extinction. It allowed for artificial tortoiseshell to be made. Previously, the only source was turtles. (Source, that book you referenced last week or so).

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    My ex used to make his own black powder.
    Was your ex called Ben L. Aden by any chance?

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  • darmstadt
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    And that my friends is how you become a right wing pigs head shagger
    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
    And that my friends is how you become a Labour supporter/closet commie.
    Sent from my 5g carrier pigeon

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
    We avoided the more likely ways to attract the interests of those in the law enforcement field by building increasingly powerful, and dangerous, ballista.

    The final one was made from old sleepers and scrap timber, wire rope, ratchet straps and leaf springs from the suspension on an old Bedford truck. We used it to fire 5 ft lengths of rebar through bales of straw, and on one occasion a brick wall. Effective range was well over 300ft.
    And that my friends is how you become a Labour supporter/closet commie.

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  • DaveB
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    We avoided the more likely ways to attract the interests of those in the law enforcement field by building increasingly powerful, and dangerous, ballista.

    The final one was made from old sleepers and scrap timber, wire rope, ratchet straps and leaf springs from the suspension on an old Bedford truck. We used it to fire 5 ft lengths of rebar through bales of straw, and on one occasion a brick wall. Effective range was well over 300ft.

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    In the highlands growing up being bored was the new fun. It was with some disappear for our parents when I reported to my mother me the neighbour made a bomb. Using ingredients I shall not mention here, my and N made a device that we now realise was probably a bit too powerful. The tennis ball that left the launch tube returned to planet earth about a full ~20 seconds later. Perforated. Good times.
    We managed to fire a plastic cup a good distance up in the air out of some piping with some chemicals bought from the chemist. It made a fair bang and a nice gent for the TA base across the road asked us very nicely not to do it again.

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  • elsergiovolador
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    Originally posted by Jog On View Post
    Isn't that what people were worrying about when 3D printers became a thing?
    The worry is when the printers become self aware and start multiplying.

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  • ladymuck
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    My Dad has told me tales of him and his mates making 'guns' from bits of pipe and goodness knows what.

    My ex used to make his own black powder.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Just as well I'm not a kid these days. I made a gun when I was about 14, metal pipe and other plumbing bits, Sodium Chlorate and sugar, fired by a bit of wire from an old iron connected to switch and battery.
    You are me, aren't you Xogg?

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Just as well I'm not a kid these days. I made a gun when I was about 14, metal pipe and other plumbing bits, Sodium Chlorate and sugar, fired by a bit of wire from an old iron connected to switch and battery.
    In the highlands growing up being bored was the new fun. It was with some disappear for our parents when I reported to my mother me the neighbour made a bomb. Using ingredients I shall not mention here, my and N made a device that we now realise was probably a bit too powerful. The tennis ball that left the launch tube returned to planet earth about a full ~20 seconds later. Perforated. Good times.

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  • scooterscot
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    Who needs a gun

    i've got a donk.


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  • xoggoth
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    Just as well I'm not a kid these days. I made a gun when I was about 14, metal pipe and other plumbing bits, Sodium Chlorate and sugar, fired by a bit of wire from an old iron connected to switch and battery.

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    Do KUATB

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  • minestrone
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    Just need a blocked off pipe, a ball bearing, fuse and some black powder. Cost of materials, about a fiver. Much better value for money than all that planet killing plastic.


    Five years

    Man jailed for building homemade gun in his shed - BBC News

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    Shot him with a zip gun.
    Gratis.

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