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Cap Impact

When I was a poor deprived kid living in firework free (sob) southern California, I used to make a homemade cap bomb by threading a whole roll of caps onto a needle.

 

It was one of the minor traumas of my young life when I pulled off a roll from the needle and the friction detonated the whole shebang at once. I remember sitting there eras ringing wondering (at first) what had just happened.

 

Here is a pellet just hitting a folded set of about six caps. The orange stuff is the after effects of the tiny explosion.

 

Cheers.

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Uploaded on October 16, 2010
Taken on October 15, 2010