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"How to build your own Bazooka" - I'm sold.

• jihadjihad 5y ago
  A much safer alternative, which is arguably a decent approximation of the real thing, is to build your own potato cannon. I have a lot of fond memories of being seventeen and blasting potatoes to smithereens.
  • duskwuff 5y ago
    I'm pretty sure that's exactly what the book is describing. The ingredients (like a length of PVC pipe and a Nichrome hot-wire) certainly match, although a modern implementation would probably use a piezoelectric igniter instead.
• microtherion 5y ago
  As some commenters pointed out, the resulting Bazooka would have a decent chance of killing/maiming the operator, and a negligible chance of doing anything to the intended target. There's a rumor that some three-letter agencies surreptitiously published "subversive" literature containing explosives-related recipes of this ilk in the hope that people inclined to build bombs would use the recipes to take themselves out of the gene pool.
  • omgmajk 5y ago
    I have read some of those books, the anarchist cookbook and the like.. they tend to be like that. But they are fun!