[Monty Burns]Excellent[/Burns]
OpalCat
November 13, 2008, 10:54pm
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Stranger_On_A_Train:
This is nothing new; we used to do the same thing with tennis balls and isopropyl alcohol when I was a kid. Glue a small stem of copper pipe that has been constricted and you have the Will-O-Wisp Bomblet bouncing all around.
Do not try this at home unless you live in a concrete bunker.
Stranger
I don’t get the copper pipe part. Please describe fully.
I promise not to do this in the house
pbbth
November 13, 2008, 11:48pm
23
Stranger_On_A_Train:
This is nothing new; we used to do the same thing with tennis balls and isopropyl alcohol when I was a kid. Glue a small stem of copper pipe that has been constricted and you have the Will-O-Wisp Bomblet bouncing all around.
Do not try this at home unless you live in a concrete bunker.
Stranger
Hehehe. We did this but instead of a copper pipe we built launchers out of empty soup cans.
So it’s more of a potato cannon then a tennis ball glued to a bit of copper?
pbbth
November 14, 2008, 1:50am
25
Kind of, but we launched tennis balls with it and when we put the alcohol in it to launch it the ball caught on fire before bouncing around the science classroom. We caught a bunch of paper decorations on fire too…it was awesome!