A mate and I
once made some pyrotechnics with stuff we had lying around in the lab, and took them all down to Kinshaldy beach to set light to them.

We did this because we were unlikely to be able to set fire to anything, and also unlikely to be seen should our results be more spectacular than expected.

In the event, all of our attempts were singularly unimpressive, because the glue we'd used as a binder used a chlorinated solvent and nothing would burn very well :(

My skills in that department have however improved since then.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 10:58, Reply)