took my bike to the top a very large slide in the park, to roll down. got situated fine, until i lost my balance before beginning the roll and falling 'sideways' from the top. end of 'evil kenevil' days..
ryan

Same buddy and I used to launch Estes Rockets. We wanted to go higher and higher. So we decided to make a rocket just out of the engine, glue fins on it, make a nose cone and put gun powder in the head and glue a penny over it. Of course using the largest engine available.....well the rocket went up maybe 50 ft and went sideways, then back and chased us across the field and blew up without hurting anything..... Hilarious and scary at the same time:D

Milk jug+ 3 chips Calcium Carbide & water. Cut tiny hole in the side and insert match head, light end of match.

Boom.

Milk jug splits open.

2 milk jugs taped mouth to mouth, 6 chips calcium carbide and similar treatment above.

BOOM!

Top jug split, bottom jug disintegrated!

more I cannot say...

Shooting arrows straight up in the air, then you, your friends and your 5 yr old brother scramble after losing sight of it. Building snowmo sleds out of a red wagon minus it's rear wheels with heavy steel bars rigged on the front for skis. Built a deathtrap dune buggy out of an old vw pan (no brakes or seat belts). Played dukes of hazzard with a buddy in his farm field with a couple of old $50 each plymouth valiants (no seats belts or helmets involved). Torching ant hills with WD40 torches.

The good ol' days...
:D

I'll bet calcium carbide
(makes acetelyne :D)

I opened up a shotgun shell and threw out the bb's. I put the gunpowder in an aluminum pie plate in the garage and had my younger (and dumber) brother light it. I still remember the look on his face and my mother's when she asked what happened to my brother's eyebrows! I couldn't sit for a week after that one!

I did the same thing. No eyebrow incident, but then I decided to remove the primer and throw it against a wall. Took about 5 throws for it to hit just right. I had no idea how loud it would be!
:D
Great fun!

You people are dangerous. All I did was some "artificial selection" on my Hot Wheels population, courtesy of carb cleaner and a Bic lighter.

I also took out my friend's mom's windshield by aiming a slingshot with a rock too close to a car.

Sure, and you end up owning a 944.
:eek:
:D SmileWavy

What , you guy's never played "lawn jarts?" Geezzze what fun impailing them through your neighbors brand new VW cabrio....he he. NOT my azz still hurts from that .
Also, I grew up living on an island a few miles above Niagara Falls and we regularly ran junk boat excursions (POS lymans/lapstreak with whatever outboard was not currently being rebuilt) as close as you would NEVER want to get to the rapids. Learned my best motor repair skills from those dayzzzzzz..
Tim

1 guy climbs up a sapling with one of our dads belts. He straps himself to the sapling about 3/4 the up, probably 15-20 feet in the air.

Then 1 or 2 or 3 of us would climb up the sapling and bent it to the ground. We let go and let the guy with the belt go for a hell of a ride.

We also used a similar method to get down from the 2nd floor window on a garage. Jump, grab spling, bend to ground release.

Then we set out to build the biggest bike ramp. I went 1st for one of our largest. I flew up the block, hit the ramp and flew like a bird. When I landed I punched all my spokes through the tube and tire as well as bent the rim flat.

The stupidest thing we would do for laughs was ride our bikes to the local airfield (Single engine planes and some personal jets) we would race out to the runway (sometimes active) and snag up a light cover from the edge of the runway. This would result in a heated chase from airport security. They never caught us and it was a game for a whole summer. I dont even want to think what the punishment would have been if we got caught.

Well since I am only 18, I haven't had as much time to try out some of this stuff. One of the most recent stupid things I have done is a game called Screw Catching, very addicting, very dangerous. Place a screw into the barrel on a CO2 bb gun, press the trigger and try and see if you can find it. To catch it use hands, hat, or just run like hell! Best to play out of sight of parents...

Anarchists handbook and a high school chemistry set when I was in 6th grade - bad idea. Ended up making a smoke bomb that ignited in my hand. I ended up in the burn ward for a few days.

Tried to make large firecrackers from Estes engines. Carefully drill the solid out, cut some of the tubing away to make walls thinner, repack, fill ends with plaster, ignite. Not very loud, but made some gophers very unhappy. <--We blew up their holes, not the gophers. First tries ended up with an out of control Estes engine flying around the neighborhood.

Mounted three small Estes rockets on the back of my moms car - what a fun that would have been to actually use them.

Yes, I have played lawn darts. I would shoot my compound bow stright up in the air then see how close the arrow would come to us. Not the brightest thing to do, but no one died.

Ahh, many more stories, just have to remember them.

Dave

had a friend who used to like pounding primers with a hammer. oops..
ryan

Pounded on a full box of paper caps (had about 5 indi rolls) - anyone remember those? After all of the bangs, I swept up the burnt remains... Well, it caught the broom on fire about five minutes after I put the broom back in the garage, leaning against a wall. Luckily, no damage.

Old volatile bottle rocket - free
Look on face and pain in hand as rocket blows up 2" from hand - priceless.

Man that hurt.

Dorm mate in college comes up behind me one drunk night and sticks a stun gun in my back - big shock, but I did not fall. I allow him to stick me on my right side chest - I tell him I will let him know when to stop. That one got me, I could not speak, was shocked for about 10 seconds.

When my Dad was about 15, he & his brothers deceided to celebrate the end of the First World War by shooting off a cannon. They didn't have one, so a length of 2 inch iron pipe was pressed into service. The 'breech was plugged with a chunk of hardwood and a 'touch hole' was filed. A can of black powder, some scrap metal and a handfull of rocks completed the device, which was placed in a small depression on a bluff overlooking the river. The first attempt to light it with a match failed, so Dad's older brother, Owen lit a piece of birch bark jammed into the end of a stick and thrust it into the hole. The resulting explosion knocked over all four boys. They could see the splashes of the debris hitting the river (but couldn't hear for some reason) and wondered where the 'breech' of their cannon disappeared to. The next spring, Dad's uncle found it, a twisted piece of scrap which had burst from the hole, missing all four of the fools and landed in a field about 400 yards away.

I liked electricity. I read you could remove the carbon cores from D batteries, taper the ends, and mount them in an insulated holder so the points were almost touching, hook them to 110 current and TA DA! an arc light! Boy, did it ever get bright in that cellar for a few seconds! I could never keep it going for more than 10 seconds and Dad wondered why we were going through so many fuses.
Les

Made a giant Tesla coil when I was a kid... Sparks everywhere... caught several things on fire that were not supposed to be...

We may be related...Estes could be my middle name. I felt compelled not only to modify the estes motors, but the rockets as well.

And fireworks...

Aluminum powder in a plastic bottle half filled with hydrochloric acid. Close the bottle and run away. After that, I became a chemistry professor. In one of the labs I worked, the students were asked to clean the glove-boxes that were used for making lithium batteries. They collected about half a pound of scrap lithium, and to see if it really reacts with water, threw it in the river nearby. I wish I had seen the explosion, but from what I was told, it was huge.

Aurel