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Anyone remember those chemistry sets you used to get - seems they were petty dangerous.. .

I never had one but oh the fun you could have whilst becoming your own nuclear power....

Gilbert U238 Lab

I bet Firearms Licensing would leave you alone if you had your own nuke. Peace through superior firepower.

Chuck wrote:Anyone remember those chemistry sets you used to get - seems they were petty dangerous.. .

To be honest ANY TOY in my hands could be made dangerous. Those plastic FN rifles that fired grey plastic bullets courtesy of a spring action ... I found knitting needles turned them into a decent spear gun.

"I'm amazed I still have all my fingers ........."

I'm amazed I made it through my first year at work as a Unilever lab. assistant..............

Pete

Dark Skies wrote:

Chuck wrote:Anyone remember those chemistry sets you used to get - seems they were petty dangerous.. .

To be honest ANY TOY in my hands could be made dangerous. Those plastic FN rifles that fired grey plastic bullets courtesy of a spring action ... I found knitting needles turned them into a decent spear gun.

I had one of those..... my dad bought it me while we were on a Christmas shopping trip in Woolworths and it would have been about 1978!......the barrel snapped at some point so it became a carbine!

On the making your own gun powder, I believe with out any licenses etc. you can make and use up to 100g of gun powder, but you can't store it.

snayperskaya wrote:

Dark Skies wrote:

Chuck wrote:Anyone remember those chemistry sets you used to get - seems they were petty dangerous.. .

To be honest ANY TOY in my hands could be made dangerous. Those plastic FN rifles that fired grey plastic bullets courtesy of a spring action ... I found knitting needles turned them into a decent spear gun.

I had one of those..... my dad bought it me while we were on a Christmas shopping trip in Woolworths and it would have been about 1978!......the barrel snapped at some point so it became a carbine!

Ha I managed to break two of them,didn't get a third.

snayperskaya wrote:

Dark Skies wrote:

Chuck wrote:Anyone remember those chemistry sets you used to get - seems they were petty dangerous.. .

To be honest ANY TOY in my hands could be made dangerous. Those plastic FN rifles that fired grey plastic bullets courtesy of a spring action ... I found knitting needles turned them into a decent spear gun.

I had one of those.....

Me too

Anyone try making nitrocellulose? The chief chemist showed us that one..............but then it was 1958..............

Pete

Pete wrote:Anyone try making nitrocellulose? The chief chemist showed us that one..............but then it was 1958..............

Pete

I once came across a website with instructions on how to make Sarin.

The hardest part of the process is not killing yourself with it.