5.0 Explosive Devices

6.0 Miscellaneous


5.01 ....... Generic Bomb
5.02 ....... Fire Bomb
5.03 ....... Pipe Bomb
5.04 ....... Contact Grenade
5.05 ....... Carbide Bomb
5.06 ....... Hindenburg Bomb
5.07 ....... Gasoline Bombs
5.08 ....... CO2 Canister Bomb
5.09 ....... Match Head Bomb
5.1 ....... Chlorine Bomb
5.11 ....... Snowball Bomb
5.12 ....... Light Bulb Bomb
5.13 ....... Ping Pong Ball Bomb
5.14 ....... Shell Bomb
5.15 ....... Balloon Claymore
5.16 ....... Stink Bomb

This is the point to really stress the word safety! Safety should be well exercised and you had better know what you are doing before you even attempt to construct some of these devices. Remember that the law prohibits the manufacture and use of such devices, and you would be breaking the law!! If you do make on of the devices that is listed in here then I would suggest you make a prototype and set that one off in the country and if it worked correctly then make your final one and use it the way you had in mind.

NOT TO INJURE PERSONS OR DESTRUCT PROPERTY!!!

Homemade Bombs (Just the way Mom used to make 'em)
An anarchist's beginning guide to explosives!
5.01 ...... GENERIC BOMB

Acquire a glass container. Put in a few drops of gasoline. Cap the top and turn the container around to coat the inner surface. Add a few drops of potassium permanganate (found in a snake-bite kit) . To detonate just throw against a hard object. I hear this is the same as a half stick of dynamite!

5.02 ....... FIRE BOMBS

Most firebombs are simply gasoline filled bottles with a oil soaked rag in the mouth. The original firebomb was one part gasoline and one part motor oil. The oil makes it splatter and stick on what your trying to burn. Some use one part roofing tar or one part melting wax to 2 parts gasoline.

5.021 ....... MORE FIRE BOMBS

Take carbon disulfide and dissolve white phosphorous in it. Put it in a stoppered bottle and throw it at something you would like to see on fire. When the CS2 evaporates, it leaves a film of P on what ever it hits, and it starts a fire with the solvent vapors.

5.03 ....... PIPE BOMBS

A pipe bomb is very easy to make. But is also very dangerous! To construct a pipe bomb you will need a piece of pipe about one foot long. Some fine gun powder, a solar igniter, and a battery. Cap one end of the pipe very good with a cap. Pour some gun powder in the other end about little over the middle. Cap the pipe on the other end and make a small hole in the middle of the pipe. Now wrap the whole pipe in electric tape and make the hole again. Place in the head of the solar igniter in the hole. Tape the igniter down so it will not fall out.

To ignite the bomb I suggest you take a VERY long wire and connect it to the electrodes of the solar igniter and run it very far away. Then connect the battery at the other end of the wire. DO NOT touch the battery to the electrodes of the bomb IT WILL EXPLODE!!! Remember take a long two conductor wire and connect it to the electrodes and run it far away and then connect the battery to it. If you made it correctly it will explode upon contact with the battery! Remember, this can kill you. This also can do a lot of property damage.

5.031 ....... MORE PIPE BOMBS

Take a pipe, crimp (closed at one end) and pack it 3/4 full of paraffin (or any other semi-solid with about the same basic chemical structure), poke a number of holes through the length of the paraffin. On top of this put a very thin steel (or other metal of that sort) wafer, make double damn sure that it fits tightly all the way around. On top of this put some high concentration HCL (or similar acid). Close the top now, stand it on end (paraffin end down), and evacuate the premises. You should have about 5-30 seconds depending on the thickness of the wafer. Better to use a vial on the bottom ,stand the pipe upright, tie a string around it and pull from far away. Watch out for shrapnel.

5.04 ....... CONTACT GRENADE

Materials needed:


This design is a modified pipe bomb which will be set off upon hard contact. This makes things much easier than tossing moltov cocktails or lighting fuses as all you do is throw it and it should detonate on contact.

  1. Cut the plastic of the shotgun shell off of the primer and set aside.
  2. Carefully fit the primer into one end of the pipe and epoxy securely.
  3. Glue the marble to the 'dimple' of the primer.
  4. Cut the ping pong ball in half and then glue half onto the marble to make a simple form of casing.
  5. Put explosive charge into the hollow pipe if using gasoline use only 1/4 of the volume of pipe. Reason: 1gal. of gas vapor~16 sticks dynamite!!!
  6. Cap the pipe and epoxy into place.
  7. Tie ribbon around tail section of pipe.

Relax. Now that its finished here's how it works. When thrown the grenade will come down upon the point because of the tail flights. When it hits, the primer will be crushed by the marble, setting it off. The primer then ignites the explosive charge. I heartily recommend that PVC be used for testing as the steel pipe is rather dangerous. This design is not a toy and should not be built to be played with. If you want a toy just empty a shotgun shell and tape a marble to the primer and throw. It makes a quasi-safe firework.

5.05 ....... CARBIDE BOMB

Obtain some calcium carbide. This is the stuff that is used in carbide lamps and can be found at nearly any hardware store. Take a few pieces and put it in a glass jar with some water. Put a lid on tightly. The carbide will react with the water to produce acetylene carbonate which is similar to the gas used in cutting torches. Eventually the glass will explode from internal pressure. If you leave a burning rag nearby, you will get a nice fireball.

5.06 ....... HINDENBURG BOMB

Get, a balloon, bottle, liquid plumr, foil, and a length of fuse. Fill the bottle 3/4 full with the liquid plumr and add a little piece of aluminum foil. Put the balloon over the next of the bottle until the balloon is full of the resulting gas. This is highly flammable hydrogen. Now tie the balloon. Tape the fuse to the outside of the inflated balloon and light. Let the balloon rise into the air. When the fuse gets to the balloon and bursts it, the hydrogen will cause a fireball.

5.07 ....... GASOLINE BOMB

Materials needed:


  1. Cut the side of 3 of the shotgun shells from the top all the way down to the brass.
  2. Make a second cut, so as to look like you were cutting a pie completely in half, if the shotgun shell were a pie.
  3. Once that the shell is cut, peel back the plastic and remove the slug, or shot.
  4. Next remove the wadding, it will probably be plastic, or cardboard.
  5. Gather all the gunpowder and put it into a container.
  6. Now take a 3/16" Welding rod, or equivalent punch, and punch out the primer on the spent shell.
  7. Now put the rocket igniter into the brass of the spent shell that you just knocked the old primer out of.
  8. You can either tape the bottom of the shell up, or put some epoxy into the hole to hold the ignite in place.
  9. Next pour the powder into the shell.
  10. Now take and cut a circle out of the cardboard to fit inside the shell to keep the powder from falling out, and then pour some wax onto it, just about 1/8". All you want to do is keep the powder from spilling.

Next dig a hole for the gasoline container to fit into. You want 4/5 of the container in the ground. But you also need about 6" of free space between the bottom of the canister, and the detonator(the shotgun shell).

This space provides room for the explosion to accelerate before hitting the bottom of the can. Now place the detonator in the very middle of where the can would go. Wire up your stereo wire to the detonator, remember the 6" of acceleration space, set the canister back on the top of it.

Run the wire its full length, clear the area of unauthorized personnel, and hook up the wires to the leads of the battery. When you do this the rocket igniter will light, setting off the shotgun powder, and exploding into the gasoline.

This produces an excellent mushroom cloud if properly constructed.

5.08 ....... CO2 CANISTER BOMB

Take a CO2 canister and cut the top almost off but leave a little to form a hinge. Let out the CO2 and insert a M80 into it. Insert fuse through hole in top. Close the top with epoxy. Ignite it and run like hell for cover.

5.09 ....... MATCH HEAD BOMB

A pipe, capped at both ends, filled with match heads makes a devastating bomb. You can set it off with a regular fuse, or use a rocket igniter for more versatility.

A plastic Baggy is put into the pipe before the heads go in to prevent detonation by contact with the metal.
Cutting enough match heads to fill the pipe can be tedious work for one but an evening's fun for the family if you can drag them away from the TV.

This type of a bomb relies on potassium chlorate, the main ingredient in matches. If you were to carefully mix red sulfur, and potassium chlorate together, and gently fill the pipe, this would be even more devastating. If these were powdered the effects should be even more devastating.

5.091 ....... MORE MATCH HEAD BOMBS

Materials needed:


Cut off the sulfur tops of the matches. Put them on the tin foil. Pack tightly. Put the fuse into the middle of the bomb, and pack very tightly.

If not packed enough, you will only get a flame thrower. With 3000 match heads, you will get a six foot flame if not packed enough. Otherwise it will explode, sending flames in every direction.

5.1 ....... CHLORINE BOMB

Take organic pool chlorine and mix it with vegetable shortening and put it someplace you don't like. It reacts by itself to produce a very noxious white smoke and heat. Make sure you are not around because the fumes are harmful to your health.

5.11 ....... SNOWBALL BOMB

Take ammonium iodide, flour, & water and form this into a snowball. Leave this 'snowball' somewhere where it will do neat stuff when it dries out. (substituting some magnesium flash powder for some (not all) of that flour helps things a bit.)

5.12 ....... LIGHT BULB BOMB

Take a light bulb (brass based preferably so you can solder the wires back when you are done) Unsolder the two wires that are soldered to the brass (one at the center of the base and one on the edge). Remove the base, taking care not to damage the bulb or filament, then take a pair of needle nosed pliers(easier to use a mini-power-drill) and snap the glass nipple that is now exposed. Fill bulb (not completely),via the hole you just made, with gasoline. Plug hole with silicone or something. Put the base back on, re-solder the wires, screw into light fixture (with power off of course!), turn on light...boom!

5.121 ....... MORE LIGHT BULB BOMBS

OK, like I saw the ol' light bulb bomb trick done in this cool movie,'The Soldier'...The commie bad guy snuck into the CIA director's office,and took the glass part off the light bulb. He filled the glass part with gasoline (or some flammable stuff) and liquid soap to have the fire stick to the guy. He glued it back together, and when he turned on the light...

5.13 ....... PING-PONG BALL BOMB

Materials needed:


Cut off the sulfur tops of the matches. Put the match heads into a ping-pong ball. (Put a hole in it with an awl.) Stuff in the match heads. Then add the fuse.

Average ping-pong ball takes over 100 match heads. When lit, throw, will explode in air if packed tight, otherwise, only a small meltdown will occur. A well packed ping-pong bomb will explode sending a shower of flame and match heads for over 25 ft. The shell of the ping-pong ball will be set aflame and will melt to whatever it hits.

5.14 ....... SHELL BOMB

Materials needed:


Remove the bullet from the live shell with the pliers. Point away from yourself, just in case you screw up too badly. Save the bullet for other bombs, etc. Pour the blackpowder onto a table top, paper cup, napkin, or other. Strike the back of the bullet shell with the nail and hammer to set it off. Now take the drill and drill a hole in the back of the shell. Refill with the blackpowder. Crimp end with pliers. Put fuse in hole. Light and throw. Explosion will shatter the shell, tearing it to pieces and sending shrapnel everywhere. Enjoy it, but do not get hit. this will ruin the fun.

Variation of Shellbomb:

Same as shell bomb, but leave the blackpowder in the shell, and just add the fuse to the open end, and then crimp a bit less tightly.

Light and throw etc. Works basically the same way, just a faster version.

5.15 ....... BALLOON CLAYMORE

Material needed:


Fill balloon with blackpowder. Put fuse into open end of balloon. Wrap balloon tightly with duct tape. Put some BB's in between layers of duct tape. Do about 3 or 4 layers.

Light and enjoy.

* * * Warning * * *
Do not stand too close: BB's fly fast and hard.

5.16 ....... STINK BOMB

Ion sulfide is sold for 35 cents for only 1/8 of an ounce. Just as potent and costing about 50 cents a quart is ammonium sulfide. It stinks to high heaven like rotten eggs and no one can stand it once it has been spilled onto the floor or by vaporization by explosion.

To make some, you mix 4 ounces of Sulfur with 8 ounces of hydrated lime in a stew pot. A quart of water is added and the mess is heated and stirred until the sulfur has completely blended. The hydrated lime will sink to the bottom of the pan and the yellow liquid is then poured off into a bucket.

Take the bucket outside, if you have any sense and add one pound of Sulfate of Ammonia. Stir it a minute and hold your nose. then cover the bucket with plastic wrap and let it sit for half an hour. Then pour off the liquid slowly through a cloth filter into a bottle.

If you don't have an outside you can use your bathroom. Just hope that no one has to use it for an hour or so. The liquid is vile but is not poison.

Incidentally, when I the author researched this formula I went to a garden store and bought a 5 lb. bag of Sulfate of Ammonia for $1.65(Old Price). Garden Sulfur is very high grade and makes excellent gunpowder. It has 10% inert ingredients so 10% more should be added to any formula requiring sulfur. I bought the Hydrated Lime form a building supply store for 10 cents a pound.

A word is in order about the spelling for Sulfur products. Different spellings are: Sulfur, Sulfur, Sulfate, Sulfate, Sulfide, Sulfide, etc.

Stinkum is either poured on the floor, shot from a water pistol, thrown in a bottle or light bulb, or vaporized by a firecracker/bomb. The same goes for formaldehyde or acrolein. To vaporize the above nasties, a little bomb is used. The best bomb casing is a plastic coin holder with a screw cap, or a prescription bottle. These can be bought from any coin shop for 10 cents each. The thin brass tubing is bought at a hobby shop. The wax at a grocery store in the canning section, or your local Wal-Mart.

To keep the firecracker from getting wet, dip it, and part of the tubing into the melted wax.

Enough of the stinkum is poured into the coin holder to make it full when the firecracker is put in and the lid screwed on. It is filled as soon as possible before using. It is ignited with a chemical igniter, or with a match or cigarette. The same system could be used in a bottle but that might injure somebody.




6.0 ....... MISCELLANEOUS


6.01 ....... Mace Substitute
6.02 ....... Unstable Explosives
6.03 ....... Mischief
6.04 .......Pool Fun

This is just a compilation of stuff that I was either too lazy to categorize, or just didn't fit any where else.

6.01 ....... MACE SUBSTITUTE

Materials needed:

All measurements by volume.

OR

It's not actual mace, but it does a damn good job on the eyes...

6.02 ....... UNSTABLE EXPLOSIVES

Mix solid Nitric Iodine with household ammonia. Wait overnight and then pour off the liquid. You will be left with a muddy substance. Let this dry till it hardens. Now throw it at something!!!!

6.03 ....... MISCHIEF

This is just some stuff on how to have fun with someone's car, etc. Enjoy!!

6.031 ....... HEADLIGHT FIRE WORKS

  1. Take a hand drill or grind stone and make a hole at the base of the bulb.
  2. Fill the bulb with ammonium nitrate, black powder, potassium chlorate, or any explosive material. Result: When the victim turns on his/her headlights, you get a fireworks show.

Move the windshield wiper blades, and insert and glue tacks. The tacks make lovely designs.

If your "friend" goes to school with you, just before he comes out of school. Take a lighter(use dry ice in winter) and put it directly underneath his car door handle. Wait...Leave...Listen. When you hear a loud "shit!", you know he made it to his car in time.

Remove his muffler and pour approximately 1 Cup of gas in it. Put the muffler back, then wait till their car starts. Then you have a cigarette lighter. A 30 foot long cigarette lighter.

A oldie but goodie: sugar in the gas tank.

Put a raw egg in the gas tank.

Stuff rags soaked in gas up the exhaust pipe. Then you wonder why your "friend" has trouble with his/her lungs.

Here's one that takes time and many friends. Take his/her car apart then break into their house and reassemble it, in their living or bedroom.

If you're into engines, say eeny meeny miny moe and point to something and remove it. They wonder why something doesn't work.

6.032 ....... HARMLESS FUN

To all those who do not wish to inflict bodily damage on their victims but only terror.

These are weapons that should be used from high places.

  1. The Flour Bomb.

    Take a wet paper towel and pour a given amount of baking flour in the center. Then wrap it up and put on a rubber band to keep it together. When thrown it will fly well but when it hits, it covers the victim with the flower or causes a big puff of flour which will put the victim in terror since as far as they are concerned, some strange white powder is all over them. This is a cheap method of terror and for only the cost of a roll of paper towels and a bag of flour you and your friends can have loads of fun watching people flee in panic.

  2. Smoke Bomb projectile

    All you need is a bunch of those little round smoke bombs and a wrist rocket or any sling-shot. Shoot the smoke bombs and watch the terror since they think it will blow up!

  3. Rotten Eggs (good ones)

    Take some eggs and get a sharp needle and poke a small hole in the top of each one. Then let them sit in a warm place for about a week. Then you've got a bunch of rotten eggs that will only smell when they hit.

  4. Glow-In-The-Dark Terror

    Take one of those tubes of glow in the dark stuff and pour the stuff on whatever you want to throw and when it gets on the victim, they think it's some deadly chemical or a radioactive substance so they run in total panic. This works especially well with flower bombs since a gummy, glowing substance gets all over the victim.

  5. Fizzling Panic

    Take a baggy, fill it with baking soda and water mixed into a paste and seal it. (Make sure there is no air in it since the solution will form a gas and you don't want it to pop on you.) Then put it in a bigger plastic bag and fill it with vinegar and seal it. When thrown, the two substances will mix and cause a violently bubbling substance to go all over the victim.


6.04 ....... POOL FUN

First of all, you need know nothing about pools. The only thing you need to know is what a pool filter looks like. Second, dress casual. Preferably, in black. Visit your "friends" house, the one whose pool looks like fun!!) Then you reverse the polarity polarity of his/her pool, by switching the wires around. They are located in the back of the pump. This will have quite an effect when the pump goes on. In other words. Boooooooooooommm! That's right, when you mix + wires with - plugs, and vice- versa, the 4th of July happens again.

Not into total destruction??? When the pump is off, switch the pump to "backwash". Turn the pump on and get the phuck out! When you look the next day, phunny. The pool is dry.

If you want permanent damage, yet no great display like my first one mentioned, shut the valves of the pool off. (There are usually 2) One that goes to the main drain and one that goes to the filter in the pool.

These next ones deal with true friends and there is *no* permanent damage done. If you have a pool, you must check the pool with chemicals. There is one labeled orthotolidine. The other is labeled alkaline (pH). You want orthotolidine. (It checks the chlorine). Go to your local pool store and tell them you're going into the pool business, and to sell you ortho- tolidine (a CL detector) Buy this in great quantities if possible. The solution is clear. You fill 2 baggies with this chemical. And sew the bags to the inside of your suit. Next, go swimming with your friend! Then open the bags and look like you're enjoying a piss. Anyone there will turn a deep red! They will be embarrassed so much, especially if they have guests there! Explain what it is, then add vinegar to the pool. Only a little. The "piss" will disappear.

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