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[old martParticipant @oldmart]

Ah, happy days, my friend who had rich parents had a Brickplayer set and I was surprised to see one at a car boot sale about 16 years ago. I inherited Juneero from my cousin. My mother dragged a suitcase full of well worn meccano home from a jumble sale when I was 8, and that was still in the 50's. In the early 60's, a posher building set came on the market with aluminium angled sections with multiple holes in them, but I forget the name.As for calcium carbide and ammoniumtriiodide, I still have ten fingers and two eyes, must be lucky.

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

Posted by Russell Eberhardt on 31/03/2023 16:18:31:

…How about the explosive made from iodine crystals and (censored). Extremely sensitive when dry…..

I made this once, and accidentally spilled some of the crystals on the front steps. Gave the milkman a nasty turn the next morning

Rob

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Posted by Russell Eberhardt on 31/03/2023 16:18:31:

Posted by lee webster on 31/03/2023 15:33:51:

P.S Don't ask me about cannons and bombs made with a certain garden substance and sugar, I know nothing.

How about the explosive made from iodine crystals and (censored). Extremely sensitive when dry. Used to be put under the lifting flap of school desks.

Russell

(censored) ium tri-iodide production was banned, where I worked, after a warming/drying cabinet was virtually destroyed when someone closed the door too sharply. Often left on the fume cubpoard stops and on open window frames. Same with pic*** a**d salts, too. Smashing rubber bungs (after cooling in liquid nitrogen) was also frowned upon, but some fun was allowed or tolerated – as long as it was nog too regular.

[old martParticipant @oldmart]

When I was in electroplating, the firm came by the contents of a laboratory and included was a glass jar with picric acid in it, a yellow powder. I put some on a hotplate and switched it on max and nothing happened, very dissapointing.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Of course, today, HSE would ban such dabgerous things as chemistry sets

Probably Trix, and Meccano as well for fear of us swallowing small parts

And as for induction coil kits intended to deliver electric shocks!!!!!!!!!!

How did we survive all these lethal toys?

Howard

[old martParticipant @oldmart]

When I was about ten years old, one of my friends shot himself in the index finger with one of those GAT pistols, it was not a pretty sight, more power than he had imagined.

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