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<blockquote data-quote="Gregg C" data-source="post: 1406764" data-attributes="member: 103471"><p>Ok I got one. Or 50...anyway, I had some junk powder around, and wanted my kids to see that gunpowder is not, by itself, explosive. So I poured a little pile on the sidewalk, and lit it with a match, saying some thing about the burn rate, babbling, really. That was cool, everyone oohed and awed in appropriate amounts. Then, one of my girls remebered I have a muzzle loader. What about black powder, Dad ? Oh, wait, I will get some out, and so I did. Poured a little pile on the sidewalk, about the same size as the smokeless pile from a minute ago, and started throwing matches at it.. To no effect, as it was pretty old. Starting up the babble again. " Black powder is hydroscopic, meaning it absorbs water. Gets hard to ignite, and it burns at roughly the same rate unconfined as it does confined. I guess this stuff is older than I thought " and I lean over the pile to touch the match to it. WUFF. Big ball of fire. Didn't hurt me, thank you, but it DID singe my eyebrows off. Stood up, turned to the audience, and said " And THAT is why we don't play with gunpowder !" That was 25 years ago, and they still remember it.</p><p></p><p>When I was about 10, I learned that if you lay a primer on something hard, and hit it with a hammer, well, I'm sure you all know, it explodes. GREAT fun. Think I went thru my dads stockpile , doing that.. Took them to school, and taped them to the foot of chairs. Like I said, WONDERFUL fun. Till, one day , at home, alone and unsupervised, I could only find a hammer head, no handle. No big deal, should work fine....And it did. But I struck the primer at an extreme angle. The anvil struck me in the very tip of my nose. Come within an inch, literally, of losing an eye. That was the last primer I ever played with. I think I was about 30, and that scar got to feeling like a pimple, kinda swollen, and sore, you know? One evening, I burst it, just like a pimple....only, unlike a pimple, it had a sharp edge sticking out of it. . Got some tweezers, and pulled out .....you guessed it. The anvil. Stupid things I have done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gregg C, post: 1406764, member: 103471"] Ok I got one. Or 50...anyway, I had some junk powder around, and wanted my kids to see that gunpowder is not, by itself, explosive. So I poured a little pile on the sidewalk, and lit it with a match, saying some thing about the burn rate, babbling, really. That was cool, everyone oohed and awed in appropriate amounts. Then, one of my girls remebered I have a muzzle loader. What about black powder, Dad ? Oh, wait, I will get some out, and so I did. Poured a little pile on the sidewalk, about the same size as the smokeless pile from a minute ago, and started throwing matches at it.. To no effect, as it was pretty old. Starting up the babble again. " Black powder is hydroscopic, meaning it absorbs water. Gets hard to ignite, and it burns at roughly the same rate unconfined as it does confined. I guess this stuff is older than I thought " and I lean over the pile to touch the match to it. WUFF. Big ball of fire. Didn't hurt me, thank you, but it DID singe my eyebrows off. Stood up, turned to the audience, and said " And THAT is why we don't play with gunpowder !" That was 25 years ago, and they still remember it. When I was about 10, I learned that if you lay a primer on something hard, and hit it with a hammer, well, I'm sure you all know, it explodes. GREAT fun. Think I went thru my dads stockpile , doing that.. Took them to school, and taped them to the foot of chairs. Like I said, WONDERFUL fun. Till, one day , at home, alone and unsupervised, I could only find a hammer head, no handle. No big deal, should work fine....And it did. But I struck the primer at an extreme angle. The anvil struck me in the very tip of my nose. Come within an inch, literally, of losing an eye. That was the last primer I ever played with. I think I was about 30, and that scar got to feeling like a pimple, kinda swollen, and sore, you know? One evening, I burst it, just like a pimple....only, unlike a pimple, it had a sharp edge sticking out of it. . Got some tweezers, and pulled out .....you guessed it. The anvil. Stupid things I have done. [/QUOTE]
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