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Match heads in vase chain reaction. 2:44 video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpDZ9YrIiGw
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...291#post161545
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...631#post151778
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...308#post142192
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...826#post140325
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...206#post126400
I wonder if there's a tempered glass carafe that could withstand that heat & pressure?
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.
What a waste of matches.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Agreed, match-heads in the jar seem well consumed, that flare sure looks secondary.