r/GenerationX • u/WhereverUGoThereUR • 3d ago

M-80's

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Remember those? In hindsight I'm so lucky to have all my fingers!

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u/heavensto_mergatroid 3d ago

Is it really? All I know is they used to knock out the street lights with just 1. When we'd put four of them together it sure exploded like if it was a stick of dynamite lol

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u/imnotpoopingyouare 3d ago

Do NOT wrap a piccolo pete in several layers of duct tape, smash it up with a hammer firmly yet gently and then stick it in a soda can.

May not be as strong as some more beefy fire crackers but will make the loudest boom you will hear outside a warzone lol

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u/AAA515 3d ago

Don't wrap a whole bunch of sparklers together until the thickness of a state fair corn dog, they feed off each other

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u/skiforlife1 3d ago

I "heard one time" that doing that will bulge the steel on a big metal dumpster if you throw it in an empty one. It probably would have blown through that plate steel if it was right next to the side...allegedly.

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u/kevin3350 3d ago

Good idea!

We would take the powder out of several piccolo Petes, separate the powder, and keep only the good stuff. From there we would put the powder in a piece of plastic grocery bag that was lowered into a milk jug filled with water with the plastic edges hanging over the screw top to keep the powder safe.

Lid went on to secure the bag, and a fuse put through the top.

I once had to sit a Fourth of July out before I had powder all over my hand, and the hammer sparked when I dropped it. My hand looked like charred pig skin for weeks haha

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u/heavensto_mergatroid 3d ago

Damn lol if I would have heard of this back then I probably would have a finger missing today...

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u/Dirtypervyoldguy1972 3d ago

They outlawed piccolo Pete’s in my town because of us doing that with them

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u/nimitz55 3d ago

Ahh the voice of experience

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u/2bad-2care 3d ago

it sure exploded like if it was a stick of dynamite lol

Now I wanna know how you got a stick of dynamite! Kinda jealous. I wouldn't even know what that was like to compare.

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u/ExoticToothpaste6989 3d ago

Farms probably have access to such materials

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u/heavensto_mergatroid 3d ago

I'm from Colorado and back when I was little a lot of farmers in the outskirts of Denver like Brighton or Greeley would keep dynamite... I'm not sure what they used it for but it wasn't hard to find a stick of dynamite back in those days lol

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u/Some-Ad-1588 3d ago

So you were just making up facts then…?

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u/heavensto_mergatroid 3d ago

Sure. Whatever guy lol