Have you ever started a fire?I went to sleep with candles burning - woke up to a circle of flame on the rug. Thought, "Tits. Better put the rug in the bath and turn the taps on." TIP: Don't put a burning rug into a fibre glass bath. I caused about £5000 of damage to the house and was coughing up smoky black phlegm for a few weeks. Can you beat that?
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rob, Tue 2 Mar 2004, 17:48)
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We found some blank roundson the army shooting ranges not far from where I lived as a kid. We hacksawed the ends off (!!!) and tipped out all the black powder. Took this back to the woods and tipped it into a small hollow in the ground. A lighted match was introduced to the pile and..... nothing happened. We looked in hollow and realsied nothing had happened. The (still glowing red hot but no flame) match was placed by my mate into the hollow while we were looking. Now it seems that a flame is not what black powder needs to get it to flare off - as the red hot bit ignited the powder. The flare removed our eyebrows, eyelashes, some hair from our fringes and gave us very red faces.
BTW we later set the caps off in the rounds by putting them in a vice and hitting a nail on them with a hammer. Resulting ringing in the ears was to be heard for hours after....
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enthusiastic amateur delurked at:, Thu 4 Mar 2004, 12:16,
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