Is it still possible to buy the right paper caps to make cap bombs?
Posted by ThrowingAway19674@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Back in school (20+ years ago) you used to be able to get rolls of caps (the ones with a dot of gunpowder or whatever every centimetre or so) that I used to fold in half (cracking the dot) and wrap round a penny.
I tried a couple of years ago and all the paper caps seemed to either have a strip of white paper over the dot, or they weren't central, so the cracking wouldn't work.
Anyone know if it's still possible to source the original style?
imtheorangeycenter@reddit
If you make one cap bomb, then three more and shove them all into the plastic tube they came out of - and then put a couple of pennies at each end and wrap the whole thing very well in sellotape...
And then make six more...
And put them in your rucksack...
And a mate throws one at your feet so you jump back into a wall and detonate the ones in your rucksack... Your rucksack will shred and melt and you will fly forwards.
Just FYI.
ThrowingAway19674@reddit (OP)
😂 sounds fantastic! Hope you were okay though 😬 I once had several strips that I'd pre-folded in half in my pocket and rubbing against the zip ignited the whole lot - jacket was ruined!
How did you make the individual bombs?
imtheorangeycenter@reddit
Fold in half along the entire length, wrap round a penny, wrap in sellotape.
At one point we got to putting big french bangers in Panda pop bottles packed with gravel, then pressurizing with lighter gas.
Scared ourselves off at that point, the whole town heard it, even though we went far out into the fields !
ThrowingAway19674@reddit (OP)
Yup, that's how I did them, just making sure we're on the same page 😂.
I did use insulation tape a few times, got a bigger bang. Never tried multiplying like that though - if the ones from bangstuff are the classic design, I might have to give that a try!
waxfutures@reddit
Ah that takes me back. Anyone else enough of a fuckwit to take a roll of these bad boys and hit it with a hammer, or is that just me?
ThrowingAway19674@reddit (OP)
I wrapped ~30 rolls around a 2p and threw it at a wall in school...
One teacher thought a shotgun had gone off an panicked 😂...it was like a fire drill
(This was in a time and place where gun violence was pretty much unfathomable - the hoo-ha would've been a lot bigger nowadays)
creepinghippo@reddit
Sure, try this:
https://www.bangstuff.co.uk/product/100-shot-paper-roll-caps/
rkr87@reddit
I remember paying 5p a roll at my local paper shop.
TheRealVinosity@reddit
Wow!
That site takes me back to my childhood.
ThrowingAway19674@reddit (OP)
And they're definitely the 'old style' caps?
creepinghippo@reddit
Looks like the long strips rather than rings.
ThrowingAway19674@reddit (OP)
I've ordered some, we'll see.
I found that more recent paper caps print the dots off-centre, which meant folding them (and hence cracking them open) lengthways wasn't really possible any more.
My OP was about the long paper strips changing design, not just getting paper ones. Thanks though 👍
Think-Committee-4394@reddit
The 12 shot ring caps were awesome
Nearly lost an eye playing double the charge, eventually at about 9 charges in a single cap the hammer came off the gun & went past my head at Mach 3
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