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Match Rockets!
OK, kids, be sure to try this at home! Especially AFTER you've emptied the fire extinguishers!
What you need:
Take one of your matches and lay the needle along the flat side, with the point just barely overlapping the head of the match. Take a small rectangle of foil (experience will teach you how much) and fold it over the head and wrap tightly, so that the only way air can get to and from the head of the match is through the opening left by the needle. The foil should extend about 1/4 inch (1 cm) up the length of the match from the head. Slide the needle out carefully. Bend your paperclip so that you have an angled launch pad for your rocket. Prop it up with the foil wrapped end sticking out, light another match, and hold it under the foil until the match head lights. The expanding gasses will shoot out the nozzle made by where the needle was, and it will propel itself into the air! Properly made, tehy can go 30, 40, even 50 feet! What fun!
Try this in bars! Make bets with your mates about which random total stranger's drink you can get it to land in! Or shoot one into some drunk musclebound thug's ear, and then point at your buddy when he looks your way! Watch the fun!
Seriously, though, these things are pretty hot when they land. Be careful doing this. I can not be held accountable if you burn your house down.
OK, kids, be sure to try this at home! Especially AFTER you've emptied the fire extinguishers!
What you need:
- paper matches
- aluminum foil
- the slenderest needle you can find
- a paperclip
- an almost total lack of common sense and/or love of playing with fire!
Take one of your matches and lay the needle along the flat side, with the point just barely overlapping the head of the match. Take a small rectangle of foil (experience will teach you how much) and fold it over the head and wrap tightly, so that the only way air can get to and from the head of the match is through the opening left by the needle. The foil should extend about 1/4 inch (1 cm) up the length of the match from the head. Slide the needle out carefully. Bend your paperclip so that you have an angled launch pad for your rocket. Prop it up with the foil wrapped end sticking out, light another match, and hold it under the foil until the match head lights. The expanding gasses will shoot out the nozzle made by where the needle was, and it will propel itself into the air! Properly made, tehy can go 30, 40, even 50 feet! What fun!
Try this in bars! Make bets with your mates about which random total stranger's drink you can get it to land in! Or shoot one into some drunk musclebound thug's ear, and then point at your buddy when he looks your way! Watch the fun!
Seriously, though, these things are pretty hot when they land. Be careful doing this. I can not be held accountable if you burn your house down.
damn new yorkers don't like new jersey driving (i moved to NYC from Jersey... watcha gonna do?)
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