I've been making those potassiumN/sugar smoke bombs but I withheld the powdered dye and it went off like a rocket! It just isn't right without the dye. I think it acts like a filler, preventing a lot of combustion at once.
Nah man.. you prob got the mixture wrong.
50/50 for med amount of smoke/burn time
60/40 slow burn alot of smoke (sugar/kno3)
40/60 for quick reaction (sugar/kno3)
30/70 for use in rockets.. quick burn time, less residue (sugar/kno3)
ratios are by weight
Dye does nothing other then change the color of the smoke.
Got married for the 2cnd time
This was Last weekend,
So its close to Halloween, me and my 6 friends decide to pile into my friends mini-van. It has no middle seat so it looks kinda like a helicopter open bay kinda deal.
So we start driving around at like 10:30 and we start opening the doors of the van (they are sliding) and while we are creeping along in neighbor hoods we would open the doors and have people run out and go grab pumpkins off of peoples' porches.
We have about 8 pumpkins in our car by this time and everyone thinks that it will be a good idea to throw them at signs and mailboxes. So we open the door and im kneeling by the edge of the door and i throw a pumpkin at a mailbox that is going by and it "destroys the mailbox and sounds like a shotgun"
After throwing like 7 of them, i hit 6 out of 7. We only have one left and it weights about 20-25lbs. By this time we are kinda tired of this and we are going down a simi-main road doing about 40mph. My friend opens the door and i go to throw the pumpkin at the sign.
However, when i thrust it forward i start going out of the car. In my mind im like "holy fuck!" While I'm falling out of the door of the car i some how turn my body around so that i am now falling backwords out of the car. All i remember is trying to grab this handle that is right by the door but at this point it is too far away from me to reach because I'm now parallel with the road about 3 feet above it still falling. My whole upperbody all the way down to my thighs are out of the car at this point and my head is VERY close to the road!
My friend somehow manages to grab my hand at literally the 'last" second and pull me back into the back. They shut the door and everyone in the car is freaking out and asking me if i was ok. I am just hysterical for about 5 minutes and couldn't talk. I was laughing/crying and my adrenaline was pumping so hard!
That was the craziest thing that has happened to me, because well i almost died.
haha
That's Belgium for ya.. leaves you sick and with a headache. Same consequences for me this holiday when I went back there to party with some old friends. :beer::angel:lols
The only thing I can remember which was scary, I was at a sponsored sailing event in Belgium, where the safety cover was awful, we were out racing around 2 miles to sea in a two man boat not much longer than 3-4 meters.
We were around the 25 knot mark which is the most wind we would race in for our class, and we were waiting around for the race to start when a weather front came through and it picked up to around 55 knots... It was crazily windy with waves so large you couldn't see the mast of the boat in front. After around 3 minutes our mast snapped and with hardly any safety cover we spent around 20 minutes drifting around with a temp of 5 degrees... Thought I was gonna pass out it was so cold lol. Came out with hypothermia and a nasty bump to the head![]()
That's Belgium for ya.. leaves you sick and with a headache. Same consequences for me this holiday when I went back there to party with some old friends. :beer::angel: