Match heads in vase chain reaction - video

[Altair]

Match heads in vase chain reaction. 2:44 video.

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[Haroun]

I wonder if there's a tempered glass carafe that could withstand that heat & pressure?

[neilbourjaily]

That looked to be marginally safer than the time we packed matchheads into CO2 pellet gun cylinders and set them off bouncing one of John's forehead, for which he earned a steel plate.

[Bony]

What a waste of matches.

[bob47907]

Yeah. Now instead of a glass vase, stuff those match heads into an 8” length of thin-wall conduit, 3/4” diameter with both ends crimped off and a small hole drilled in the middle for the 5” long, slow-burning fuse (that could be purchased at a hobby shop in town in the mid-sixties). *That’s* a chain-reaction!

Just recollecting-for a friend.

[baja]

Years ago my buddy and I would take old 30-06 shells and pack cut-off match heads in the them and crimp a short piece of dynamite fuse in the end. Light it and drop it down a piece of 1/2" conduit with the end capped and it made a pretty good rocket.

[Bony]

And I remember as a teenager stuffing as many match heads as possible into a spent .22 case, crimping over the end then giving it a whack with a hammer. I was deaf for a couple of days and had to dig out a shard of brass cartridge from my leg.
It sure did explode forcefully nearly took the hammer from my hand. I learnt a good lesson that day.

[hemmjo]

I am wondering what created the big Whooosh what came in from the left shortly after the carafe broke. Maybe the guys supply of extra match heads ignited from the flaming debris?

[Toolmaker51]

Agreed, match-heads in the jar seem well consumed, that flare sure looks secondary.