Anyone know what this is?
Found it the other day. It's metal but pretty light. Looks like a percussion cap detonator but no obvious explosives. Not sure if I should call the cops or not
Anyone know what this is? Found it the other day. It's metal but pretty light.
Bruh it's a toy u goof
thats a 30ft tape measure you moron. read it, that bomb is 3 foot long..
it's a toy. you put a cap gun cap on the tip and drop it on the floor. it goes bang
this, had one when i was in elementary fun toy. clean it up to keep or sell it online ($20-50) as a used collectable they don't make em any more as i am aware.
How can you NOT know what that is? Did you have no childhood?
>they don't make em any more
Dude, they're like $3 and easily found. I had one in the 90's. My nephew has one now. Search "cap bomb toy"
oh sweet nvm ya
I used to have one of these as a kid
how nostalgic
Yeahhhh.. I remember playing with those as a kid
I had one when i was a kid. You put snap caps in them and throw them at each other during your BB gun wars.
>Not sure if I should call the cops or not
Lol moron
Don't like to the trolls itt
That's a light explosive, often dropped out of Russian or Chinese spy balloons/planes in the thousands. They don't carry much charge as you pointed out, but it's enough to cause serious injury or kill you if it hits you at all.
Call it in.
definitely not russian. russian design can be seen on this pic
BRO RUN! RUN BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
call. the. cops. now!
Veteran's alarm clock
If you put the cap on the end what was the spring for?
supposedly to hold multiple caps inthe middle of it for a bigger bang but i dont remmeber if it worked or not
thought it was for those paper cap things that were just flat caps
When I was a kid, we'd pick out the explosive parts from the plastic caps, gather them in a pig pile and add a fuse to make firecrackers. They had quite a bit of explosive power.
We'd also use the paper strips like in that picture, and wrap it around a small stone, then tape it all up. You could throw it something and get a pretty satisfying bang on impact, depending on the amount you used.
i did this but with those paper wrapped snap caps. cut 25 of them open to dump into some plastic wrap. made a hug firecracker.
tried to do 50 but after 30 of them it becomes really volatile. it exploded in front of me and lost my hearing momentarily. i thought i just went deaf and freaked out. tinnitus gang.
The paper strip variant has funnily enough been used as primer for real blackpowder firearms. Hopefully with more care put into things than with the toys, as I remember the bloody things always being abhorrently unreliable compared to other cap gun types.
Silver fulminate IIRC:
>as I remember the bloody things always being abhorrently unreliable compared to other cap gun types.
Yeah in my experience those paper tape caps only worked maybe half the time.
It depended on the cap gun. I had one where they basically worked all the time. I preferred the plastic ones with 12 shots though, because I liked simulating the idea of having to deal with limited ammunition.
They also had lighters that used those paper strips to ignite the fuel instead of a spark wheel.
This got me wondering. If you got a regular firecracker, removed the explosive, and wrapped it in paper caps, would the paper caps set off the explosive from the firecracker if you threw it at a wall?
>the smell
frick I miss snap/roll caps.
I used to put a whole roll of these on the side of a lump hammer's head then hit it with another lump hammer, make a great bang and bits of paper goes everywhere
I had totally forgotten I had one of these until I saw this. The early 90's were pretty much the death of these things.
High capacity assault caps
If unsure, hit it with a hammer.
Good times
Wasn't there one anon, that found WW1 gas arty shell? There was that one /k/ommando, that pealed off, when he made some chlorine gas.
>call the cops
lmao in what situation would this require calling law enforcement?
i hate you nu/k/ redditors so much its unreal
Bomb disposal. Most people would just hang onto an intact good condition hand grenade or something like that, but some buried rusted out explosive isn't worth it. Maybe it blows up on your bookshelf, maybe it doesn't blow up when your life depends on it in a future conflict.
I live near a bombing range and every few years some dumb kid hunting souvenirs or meth tweaker after scrap metal gets wounded or killed by fricking with old worn explosives. Worst was in the 80s when a kid brought dud mortar round to town and tried to show all his friends who gathered around it, then it went off and shredded them.
What do you gain reposting shit from reddit you fricking mongrel?
What's in those caps, anyway? Is it lead based like with primers?
t. played with them as a kid
It might have been in the old days. These days I'm fairly sure it's potassium chlorate and red phosphorus.
UXO!!!
DROP AND RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>20ish mm
Looks like that sabot ammo shown on show few years back
I put a 50 bmg primer in one and it destroyed it.
never heard of this, looked it up, and everyone there is fricking moronic.
I remember these. They're fun to load a fat fricking stack of caps in and throw.