Omg i was freaking out for her. I used to know a guy that we knew for making these things. He dissapeared a mailbox one time. Another we all got with him and did a 2l soda sized one under a construction barrel in a parking lot. It took a while to go off but we were long a ways away when it launched 2+ stories in the air. Left a white ring in the concrete.
At least, i think, its not inside something else and shes using coca cola it looks like. There used to be other things i think that were worse (iykyk i guess) but i heard they reformulated the shock to not work like it used to. I may be wrong.
I mixed one of those once and the bottle got HOT before I could fully screw the lid. I tossed it immediately and it blew up in the air a few feet from my hand. Can hardly believe I survived that phase of my life.
As a 12 year old we made devices starting with match heads wrapped tightly in tin foil, then graduating to gunpowder extracted one at a time from firecrackers. We set them off on the railroad tracks across from my house. My friends were bad at it but I was very careful. Some turned out merely as smoke bombs, and some burst into fire. But then I made one that one that really exploded in an impressive way and that was the last one I ever made. I immediately retired.
I remember going down to this abandoned tobacco drying barn near my house and hanging out. One day we had a backpack w things to burn, lighter fluid etc we were on our way down there to burn some things, but not start a fire. On our way over there we saw a friend running away from it and a fire started. He kept running when we asked what happened, stashed our backpack and went over to fight the fire.
Fire dept showed up and accused us of starting said fire. We didn’t eat our friend out and we didn’t mention our backpack that was 200’ away in the tree line, but we were very upset that they would accuse of us setting a fire. Heh. We didn’t want to burn it down, just burn some things while we were there. We liked hanging there, why would we want it torched?
d/l'd the anarchist cook book when I was like 10, pre 9/11 and patriot act mind you. Those model rocket engines you could buy at wal mart or hobby shops could be crushed into a very fine powder... I made one and it put a sink sized hole in the ground. I started stock piling them under my bed to go light with my friends. Thankfully my parents found them and disposed of them after a long talking to.
Yeah I was on the exact same stuff. I made a bunch a bunch of smoke bombs. Then I started trying to add stuff to make coloured smoke. One of my attempts produced a lot of smoke that was clearly toxic, in a public place. I immediately retired.
Sodium hydroxide is mean stuff. We have a sodium hydroxide solution in our lab that has a ph of about 12.5... that's SUPER basic. (Just like me lol) - dissolves organic matter on contact. I have to keep reminding lab students that they are, in fact, organic matter.
Cleaned hood vent systems for a spell, and heard of a coworker on night's that mixed several scoops too many into our pump sprayer. It fucking popped the lid and burned the shit out of him. I questioned many things about that job
My friend's dad used to make them with red devil lye, the reaction was crazy fast, they'd usually explode in the air when he threw them. It led to a really funny interaction with a sheriff once while he was drunk, sitting in a chair with the foil, lye, and empty bottles right under his lawn chair the entire time while he belligerently argued with the cop that came looking for the "guns" we were shooting.
Yeah, just wear gloves when you're pouring it, do not let the wet solution get on your skin, and be far away when it blows up.
Recommend you have a bottle of bleach handy so if it does get on your skin you can neutralize the acid with bleach. Chemical burns suck.
Edit: Don't pour chlorine bleach on the acid itself, that will create toxic phosgene gas. But it can be used to neutralize acid on your skin. Then rinse copiously with water.
Don’t use bleach… chlorine plus acid makes very very very toxic gas. Use baking soda. I repeat DO NOT USE BLEACH! It will make nasty yellow smoke and cause you to choke. It is insanely toxic.
Damn I remember doing this for fun in my backyard when I was 11 or 12. Now you can’t even make a small improvised explosive device for a good time. Thanks EPA
Back in the day when people burned trash 2 days a week, we'd take aerosol paint and hairspray cans, and throw them in the burning barrels. It would shoot sparks and fire 50 feet in the air while shaking everyone's windows.
I saw a video several years ago where some people put a garbage bag over a 55 gallon barrel of gasoline, then started filling the garbage bag with propane. The bag had static, and it set off the propane and killed everyone. Plastic bags are a very bad idea for doing things like that.
We made one in a thicker walled plastic vessel and set it on the trunk of an abandoned car it's blew out the back windshield and all 4 side windows ...ahhh the good times when life was simple
The Works toilet bowl cleaner used to be 20% hydrochloric acid. They changed to 10% and now it's sulfamic acid IIRC. This is strange because you can still buy hydrochloric acid from pool supply and hardware stores, and if it was an EPA issue, those too would be affected.
More research other than first hit websearch is warranted. Perhaps it's CPSB issue when they realized people were hurting themselves putting aluminum foil into their product, though I would suspect many acids would eat through aluminum, perhaps sulfamic acid doesn't react as fast.
doesnt matter its a simple reaction with acid no time machine required. so basically any hardware store will do which is where you could get works anyway. this isn't impressive and its only real danger getting it in your eyes/ skin. losing fingers not likely. the "explosion" is lack luster at best due to the weak plastic container. An air compressor, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, various acids and bases with various metals.....etc ad nauseam. they all do the same thing over inflate the balloon. the plastic bottle in this case. if you upvoted slowdownelk i might add you shouldn't be doing this considering you didn't notice that he has no idea what hes actually talking about. the shake bottle part should have been how many red flags at this point? that's right 6 inaccurate or misleading statements. but definitely dont do the shaking part thats just fucking stupid. Have it time release if you cant figure that bit out you shouldn't be doing this and have no common sense cause its stupid ez. if you are using any kind of acid or base it will kill the plants around it. id recommend not doing this near a garden. or someones parents are gonna be pissed.
Idk how I feel about how the government will target like a specific company that’s known for a thing but not other companies that do the same thing. The works, Juul, etc. seems weird to me.
works used hcl you can just buy strait hcl at literally the same store. the kids that got works were just morons who never read the chem book and didn't know what a msds is and probably just read the anarchist cook book, which by the way was written by a guy that didnt know what he was doing. No you dont need a time machine. you can achieve the same result with various metals and acids, Mentos and coke, dry ice, liquid nitrogen air compressor..... honestly their are alot of options for this. but in essence you are just over inflating a balloon.
use 10-20% HCl and aluminum foil ("tin foil") balls (loosely)
if u use Al powder and strong (20-30%) HCl, reaction will be nearly instantaneous, no time to leave. Just use the loose balls, with 10-20% HCl and you have 1-2 min to get away. You don't need to shake it. Big ass bumm.
The "vacuum" version is even better (the PET bottle shall be flattened out before)
Don't breath in the cloud after the explosion. (Vaporized HCl is not good for you at all)
For sure it's illegal and dangerous, you have to know that. And it's fun. A lot of fun! :D
So basically if you put the powder in one box next to the liquid in another box, and then like tape a piece of tannerite to it for a det charge, you get a really big explosion?.. 🤔
probably not. they need to be mixed first. Giving some heat makes it even faster. But not fast enough for an explosion like the one you've described. I don't think so...never tried.
We were making these and setting them off and the side of a huge police annex building next to our neighborhood as kids. There were a hundred police there and nothing ever happened to us. Of course we were too stupid young to know the risk we were taking either.
We used to use drano instead. But wouldn't cap it. We would blow up balloons with the gas, the wrap a toilet paper fuse dangling from it, then light that on fire.
To ignite the very angry cloud of hydrogen. Sometimes it worked, most of the time the shockwave would extinguish the flame before it could ignite the hydrogen.
I would assume that in 99% of applications, the flame would be extinguished long before the hydrogen/oxygen matched for reaction.
Hypothetically speaking, though if you added flint granules and a striking material inside, it would have a much more likelihood to ignite for that 'cool boom' factor.
Be advised that doing any of these things likely breaks federal laws and is also very likely to be caught quickly with due prosecution. I would discourage you from doing any of these hypothetical things.
100 lb. drum of chlorine in your local Walmart. Open and add one quart of brake fluid and reseal lid. Walk away and prepare to go to jail once they’ve reviewed the video footage.
Did this back in the day. We put the foil in first, though, and didn't add the drain cleaner til we were ready to set that thing off. We definitely woke up a few neighbors with that one.
Dry ice is hard to get enough into it, to pressure in the 2l to make it expand enough.
What you're saying is basically use dry ice granules, but dry ice evaporates rapidly, so much so that getting into a granuler form for it to fit through the opening wouldn't work as it evaporates so rapidly.
Unless you mean to use A LOT of it, which i guess IS 'easier' but at a monetary loss.
Iirc “The Works” had caustic soda -lye- in it. That was what reacted to the aluminum foil.
Don’t ever use 20oz bottles. The “fuse” is too short.
Draino never worked for me. It would react to the aluminum but too slowly and the heat melted the bottles before enough pressure built up.
And don’t try this at home to anyone reading this. I got splashed from an explosion and lucky to have my eyesight. It burned through my clothes and burned my skin from the head down.
We used to do a similar thing with dry ice and water. Just a little bit of dry ice. And then get pretty far back and shoot it with a bb gun. Small noise make big boom.
It looks like shes using coke and pool shock here. The guy i know used to use rubbing alcahol and break pieces off the pool shock tablets into the bottle. I dont think that works anymore though.
We dropped one in the sewer pipes when I was a teen. It exploded and reverberated for blocks when it went off. The cops showed up, but we were long gone. We were idiots
Yes, we used to do this when I was young. If she used the same stuff we used, she is definitely getting chemical burns, maybe even blew off some fingers. 😬
With a buddy when we were teen, we used to empty firework, firecracker and shit for the powder and blow thing up. We were dumb enough to not realize at the time we were basically creating domestic bomb, and stupid/smart enough to do it in middle of nowhere. Stupid because, good luck getting the emergency there, but smart cuz we didn't want to damage ppl houses. At least we built protection to hide behind.
If the cap seals tight the bottle can build up a lot of pressure. After calibrating IR sensors with liquid nitrogen we often had left over LN2 that would just vent off as we could not return it. So we would play with it. One grad student put some into a soda bottle and placed it in a ceramic sink. The trick is to not get the cap cold so a funnel is needed. It exploded and broke the sink. It was not good for his future there.
Nah not this not here. I had all kinds of stuff living in the country but this was more city kids just moved here. My dad was a reloader and we had all kinds of guns. It was all new and interesting to me though.
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u/youuuuwish 4d ago
Her absolute lack of urgency is pretty impressive... no survival instinct whatsoever