Bottle Bombs!

[Solus]

No one ever play with gasoline and tide laundry detergent?

[Pathfinder]

No one ever play with gasoline and tide laundry detergent?

Uh, no, what happens?

[Majer]

Napalm 

[Fatman]

Uh, no, what happens?

It sticks to kids.

[fightingquaker13]

It sticks to kids.

ROFL! We used to sing that little ditty jogging through the yuppies on the Tow Path when I was Georgetown Army ROTC. They didn't seem to see the humor.
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[Sponsor]

[Solus]

My "gang" were making Molotov Cocktails ..just gasoline in a coke bottle with the usual rag in the next and throwing them at the central stone chimney of a city park woods shelter.

We were disappointed in the results as the gasoline would splash and make a nice big bunch of flames, but it would be over and done before any lasting fire could take root.

So we delved into mixing gasoline with Tide detergent.  Our Lore said that only Tide would work...we never went against Lore in those  days so I don't know it is was true or what made Tide unique.  I also don't know if Tide is all that will work today or if it will work at all.

Lore also called for heating the gasoline and mixing in the Tide.  We felt wise and very safety conscious when we realized we best use a hot plate rather than on open flame to warm our gasoline.  We got a nice jelled substance which we spooned into our bottle and used another saturated rag in the neck.

Well, we lit it and threw it against the same stone chimney.  It all lit and stuck in place creating enough heat to catch the wood and shingle roof on fire.  Burnt the whole roof off that shelter...

After the few moments of awe wore off, I, at least, did not feel much satisfaction in that destruction.  We never did make any more of those bombs.

Sometimes you just don't realize the true effect of your actions will bel....at least as a 14 year old...

 

[blackwolfe]

Not that I know first hand about any of this stuff, but I have heard that Naptha Soap Flakes work well.
The problem with the old right of passage with boys and bombs, is that now a lot of it falls under terrorism statutes.
Any body remember some of the ads or the stuff you could buy in the back of Popular Science magazine?  Of course when you combine some of this stuff with model rockets the real fun begins.  Had to get real creative sometimes to obtain some of the ingrediants, so a "laboratory" was created in order to purchase "stuff."  Those were some fun times, not that I have any first hand knowledge or experience, and I was not the one who built or set off the device in the high school bathroom.

[fightingquaker13]

My "gang" were making Molotov Cocktails ..just gasoline in a coke bottle with the usual rag in the next and throwing them at the central stone chimney of a city park woods shelter.

We were disappointed in the results as the gasoline would splash and make a nice big bunch of flames, but it would be over and done before any lasting fire could take root.

So we delved into mixing gasoline with Tide detergent.  Our Lore said that only Tide would work...we never went against Lore in those  days so I don't know it is was true or what made Tide unique.  I also don't know if Tide is all that will work today or if it will work at all.

Lore also called for heating the gasoline and mixing in the Tide.  We felt wise and very safety conscious when we realized we best use a hot plate rather than on open flame to warm our gasoline.  We got a nice jelled substance which we spooned into our bottle and used another saturated rag in the neck.

Well, we lit it and threw it against the same stone chimney.  It all lit and stuck in place creating enough heat to catch the wood and shingle roof on fire.  Burnt the whole roof off that shelter...

After the few moments of awe wore off, I, at least, did not feel much satisfaction in that destruction.  We never did make any more of those bombs.

Sometimes you just don't realize the true effect of your actions will bel....at least as a 14 year old...

 

Terrorist! Actually, the traditional recipie is two parts gasoline (for combustion), one part diesel (to prolong the burn time) and one part soap flakes or detergent (to make it stick). I learned this in High Schol from a teacher who fought in the '56 Hungarian uprising against the Sovs. He was pretty clear about the value of that, as well as  greasing the uphill slopes of cobblestone streets and smirking derisvely when someone asked about the difference between bolts and machine guns. "What difference? You aim, fire once and run away. You then do it again a block away.". Wise words.
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[ratcatcher55]

We used to dissolve Styrofoam cups in the gasoline. It worked as a cheap thickening agent.