Artillery

[MikeBjerum]

Really?  Hmmm....I dunno about that:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-Porter-Chemcraft-Chemistry-Combination-Lab-Set-No-2614-Vintage-Rare-VTG-/291993274919?hash=item43fc27ca27:g:iQsAAOSwjDZYb-gd

From the photos, my set was about the same size, but it was all chemistry.  I had a separate microscope kit.  And then there was the big Erector set that even without the electric motors and switches would send the bubble wrap crowd into convulsions today.

DAMN!!!  My childhood was a BLAST!

[Big Frank]

OK...one more....MRE heaters.......when torn open and poured into a two liter coke bottle with a 1/4 cup of water will begin to build pressure after the cap is secured......until it makes a big BOOM.

Don't forget to empty one of the tiny bottles of Tabasco into it to make it into a chemical weapon. 

[Rastus]

Dang good idea Frank...I never thought of that.

Mike, from time to time they have sets with more chemicals....things you cannot buy these days.

[alfsauve]

Really?  Hmmm....I dunno about that:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-Porter-Chemcraft-Chemistry-Combination-Lab-Set-No-2614-Vintage-Rare-VTG-/291993274919?hash=item43fc27ca27:g:iQsAAOSwjDZYb-gd

Sorry that's an old used set in which the owner says most of the contents and chemicals are either missing or may not even work.   Try buying the replacement chemicals new OTC.

[billt]

Years back in the 80's when I was living in Illinois, I bought a couple of those black powder .44 caliber cannons from Gander Mountain. They were working, firing guns. They took 3/32 waterproof cannon fuse, (the kind M-80's had). One 4th of July my neighbor and I were just sitting around getting hammered in the back yard. And since I had black powder, fuse, and .44 caliber balls, we decided it would be a good time to light it up. Being as there was a lot of noise in the neighborhood, we figured no one would pay attention to what we were doing.

I used an .38 Special case for a "dipper". The thing was as powerful as my .44 cap & ball revolver. We put an old pillow behind it to catch it from the recoil. We kept setting up pieces of that heavy black plastic lawn edging in a sand pile to test penetration. It went through a 2 X4 and 5 pieces of edging. And we still had to dig the ball out of the sand.

Traditions now makes a larger .50 caliber model that is Nickel plated. It's identical to both of mine but larger. I think I paid like $40.00 each for them at the time on a closeout. Now, like everything else, they're way more.

https://traditionsfirearms.com/product/Mini-old-ironsides

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