Wednesday 24 January 2007

The Ping Pong Triplet

Name: The Ping Pong Triplet

Materials:

  • 3 Ping Pong Balls
  • 3 Half-Way-Cut Sparklers
  • Lots of Sparkler Dust
  • 20cm/7.8" flammable Tape
  • Stanley Knife/X-acto Knife

Steps:

  1. Cut a hole in the top of each ping pong ball with the stanley knife.
  2. Fill the ping pong balls with sparkler dust.
  3. Put the half sparklers sticking out of each ping pong ball.
  4. Connect them (the sparklers) together with flammable tape.
  5. Light one end of the flammable tape.

Details:

When all of the sparklers burn down you will have a big explosion flying out of the holes you made in the top of the ping pong balls. It will eventually die down and burn it's self out but it is preferable to put it out as soon as it has gone off in case of a wind.


Flammable Tape

Name: Flammable Tape

Materials:

  • Masking Tape
  • Hair Spray

Steps:

  1. Lay a piece of masking tape on the ground and coat it in hairspray
  2. Fold the masking tape in half
  3. It is now ready to light

Details:

The hairspray is flammable. The masking tape absorbs the flammable hairspray to make it very flammable! You must only spray the masking tape straight before you make the bomb. Once the flammable tape is dry it is useless and you must spray it again.

Sparkler Dust

Name: Sparkler Dust

Materials:

  • Sparklers
  • Hammer
  • Airtight Container
  • Ice cream container

Steps:


  1. Get the hammer and bang the packet of sparklers
  2. Make sure all the sparklers are crushed
  3. Take the packet out and dump the powder into an ice cream container
  4. You can crush this for easy access
  5. Fill an air tight container with the sparkler dust you just made for safe keeping

Details:

This dust will not burn well by its self spread out. When in a reasonable sized pile and lit it will go off with quite force. Always use a fuse to light this stuff! It's Dangerous!