Match heads in vase chain reaction - video

[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.