Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:44 pm
My story is a long one...
My friend and I were bored one day, and so he took a match and the box, and pressed the head of the match hard against the box. He then flicked it... it went off, and flew through the air for about 7 feet. I thought this was cool, so I did it a couple times. Wanting more distance, I looked up "matches" on google, and found something called match rockets. I studied these for a while, and finally found Backyard Ballistics. I bought the book, and tried many times to make match rockets (never worked... argh). I continued looking online for books similar to Backyard Ballistics (NEEDED TO BUILD A WORKING MATCH ROCKET!!!), and I found out about vaccuum bazookas. Found a website, and build one (first time I ever bought PVC). It was cool. I was looking through Backyard Ballistics some time later, and I came to a section entitled "Pneuton's Petard" (it was basically a ball valve pneumatic). I decided to build it, just because I had finally gained a bit of experience with PVC pipe. I didn't build the combustion one due to noise. So I build it, and it was awesome, and from there on, I was hooked on pneumatics, but never on combustions...
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all my friends thought it was too hard and abandoned me on my first combustion which i sucesuffly(sp?) completed with pride last year:roll: 8)
