Why M-80 Firecrackers are Illegal
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- This video is a reupload from 2022. This made for educational purposes only, and I hope the information presented is helpful. This video does not factor ATF Orange book laws for personal use explosives, but simply informs potential dangers present with m80 firecrackers.
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Time flies. Ready for fireworks season? I am too. Let's make it an explosive one! Lord bless you and protect you this 4th of July!
Have not touched one for decades. Back in the day, they were the gold standard. Next in line were cherry bmbs.
Cherry bombs look cooler
And silver salutes
We used to throw M-80's into the creek in the early 1970's, since once lit, water wouldn't put out the fuse. They'd make a huge splash. Blew up cans too. They'd be so shreaded, you couldn't even tell, they once were cans!
It sucked, when they were made illegal. I remember, the fireworks companies tried to market "M-90's" as M-80 replacements, but they were anemic pseudo-shadow, ersatz facsimiles, that were like ordinary firecrackers in M-80 clothing.
What about the Silver Salute firework?
Right on, man
M-80s, cherry bombs, & "boat propellers," & bottle rockets. Childhood in the 70s couldnt've been the same without 'em
The M-80 isn't so much the problem, it's the lack of good common sense that has made everything dangerous.
Back in the 80's a real M80 firecracker was a 1/4 stick of dynamite.
@@soulwarrior7721
Nope. Completely different chemestry. Like comparing apples and eggs. Similar results? I've got no idea about that.
M80'S may have been 'called' 1/4 Sticks, but that doesn't make them the same. Flash powder is NOT the same as Nitro Glycerine in combination with diatomaceous earth.
@@soulwarrior772160s
When I was 10 years old I was given a book of matches & a carton of cherry bombs. My instructions were don't light them when holding them. No problems. People are just idiots today. Tide pod eating idiots.
Including platic bags with warnings and buckets with drowning warnings
Child of the 70s here. Elementary school play grounds on blacktop pavement, foot long steel lawn darts, two heavy solid plastic balls each held at the end of nylon rope connected by a stick making the “clackers”, a game called smear the queer, frisbee chicken- 2 rows of kids facing each other 15 feet away with 2 frisbees whipped as hard as you can at each other, fist fights with no guns, leaving the house at daylight and not coming home until the streetlights came on with the parents not caring because they knew we were “outside”. All of those things come a distant second place to the fun we used to have with M80s. We shot a hockey puck into the atmosphere. To the shouts of everyone screaming “GET RID OF IT” my brother relieved himself of his index finger launching it into the neighbors above ground pool with “kur-plunk”. Still should be legal because he knew better but tempted fate for a girl. He learned a valuable lesson, as we all did, through his dedicated mentoring of us younger kids. Damn I loved being 9 years old in 1970.
Don't forget real chemistry sets that actually had ingredients and instructions to make small amounts of flash powder and gun cotton 😂
I think we grew up in the same neighborhood 😂
@@christopherleubner6633 Yes! I completely forgot about that. Those kits had everything to make real explosives. Besides the gunpowder included of course. Just writing that makes me recognize how dumbed down we’ve made children’s lives.
@@jacksclabassi4209 Haha. I think practically every neighborhood across America was a carbon copy. I grew up right across 8 mile in Oak Park Mi. I was born at Sinai hospital not far from my home back then. I’ve been living in the south since 83 and LOVE it. Everything I was taught in northern schools about the south and people down here was wrong. At 20 I thought, what else was wrong that was taught? I was free as a kid up north but freed myself from being mentally enslaved down here.
Way to much safety in this world. How can you think for yourself if someone is always holding your hand
I thank God I grew up in the 70s, I got to do so many things that aren't allowed anymore.
I would have liked to see what it was like being a kid in the 70s, because being a kid in 2010 felt like I was missing out
I grew up in the 60's. Life was even better. All kinds of history was being made like in rock & roll and drag racing and many other things.
How times have changed. I can remember going with my dad to the local hardware store to purchase sticks of dynamite for which he used to remove large tree stumps.
The only thing that should be illegal about it is the short fuse and incompetent user.
@@johnruckman2320 Twice I have seen what effect flushing one down the toilet can do.
Background check and class to obtain fireworks, especially explosive mortars and firecrackers. Magic snakes. (The snake is still hot!! Don’t touch!!)
Wow, you raised a good point. Since they're illegal, more people get hurt buying unregulated m-80s. Sounds like another law that backfired, as they all usually do somehow...
Someone was selling some that had 5 grams of flash powder in them which is way more than needed for a decent bang. At that point it's a small bomb 😮
They are not actually illegal. What is illegal is to manufacture sell or transfer without paying a special tax and license per m80.
Well, if human beings weren't fucking retarded (we all are, including myself), it wouldn't need to be a law in the first place.
So what you're saying is it's illegal unless da gubbamint says you're a super special good boy and it's not, but just for you? @@capnbilll2913
@@capnbilll2913 That makes too much sense; it's not that the gov't wants to protect us, it's just that they want to empty our wallets. Same as so-called 'short barreled rifles,' they're illegal- unless you pay $200 for a tax stamp. It's just a scam, and our gov't is the biggest scam artist in creation!
I was like 12 years old playing with m80s, back in the day
You and me both…..Yikes!!
Don't forget 1/4 sticks! Those were the days....
Yup, born in the early 70's. they were readily available until about the early 90's even though they were illegal in the latter.
@@wiuser1745 I could never figure out the so called 1/4 stick of dynamite. Anybody who's used dynamite know m80s are not 1/4 stick. 1/4 is much larger in size and much bigger bang. I'm talking about the 70s version of m80s.
@@wiuser1745 And yet, we all survived!
Most of us with all our fingers....
Jr High kids flushed them down boys toilet and annihilated the schools plumbing for months. They locked it afterwards, requiring a key and hall passes for restroom privileges.
I got expelled for that 😂
When I was in grade school in the early 90's we flushed an m80 down the toilet.
Apparently the plumbing was able to handle it, because water shot out of all the toilets.
The second time we did it, the principal got an enema. :x
Flashback:
11 YEAR OLD SELF: "That tore the crap out of the mailbox" "Let's see what else we can stick one in!"
y’all are lucky that you didn’t catch a Federal Case for Destruction of Government Property (Mailbox) & getting 3 to 5 years in Federal Prison and a $250,000 fine for each mailbox destroyed
@@JohnH20111 We were just kids then anyway. No destroying milk boxes and keeping milk carrying crates, which we still have today.
Just an outdated law in my opinion. We can buy pounds of tannerite but can't have more than a 5th of a gram of flash which is basically the same thing but with slightly different oxidizer.
yep 10 lbs of tanner will shake houses for literal MILES and make a full stick look like a "snap" that you throw on the ground lol.
So, the laws are not in place because of the “boom” that the chemicals make. If that were the case, stuff like tannerite would be illegal as well. The main difference is that tannerite, following the pattern of many high explosives, is MUCH less shock/static sensitive than flash powder. Making it, for the most part, safe to handle for the average joe. However, with flash powder, simple things such as grabbing a piece of tape off of a roll can cause enough static electricity to set it off. Is it a lesser explosion? Yes. But it doesn’t take much explosive power to damage the human body.
Cheers and Happy 4th
-Someone who actually works with explosives regularly.
@@natewygant8085 lol thats a lie, whered you get your information from? yes flash is a lot more sensitive than tannerite but no where NEAR what the internet bubble wrapped brigade would have ya believe...especially perchlorate flash....furthermore i choose dangerous freedom over peaceful slaevery....I think facing a possible 10 year sentence over something like flash powder is beyond tyranny
@@batbutonfire "Dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery" It's not even close to slavery, and you know it lol. I'm not sure if it could even be considered tyranny if we look at its definition.
@@namelesskat4814 okay so you lick that boot thoroughly so their is no reasoning with you, as a human you LOVE government infractions and needless incarcerations.
Its INSANE to be how much we worship our government now and just accept laws because "that's what good little peasents do, bow to their sheepdog"
No matter what you think no one should face federal prison time because they made a loud boom out in the country and hurt no one lol get that through your skull idiot.
......id even go as far as to say you prolly work for the government or are part of the club which is why you think us little peasants need to be on a tight leash.
When I lived in Germany I made my own M-80s. They were considered to be just slightly less destructive than a small thermonuclear device.
10 ounces in a paint roller tube. BOOM!
when I lived in England, I learned how to make a small thermonuclear device.
@@Lurch-Bot But, you can't make one.
Some German dark aluminum powder...oh yeah.
@@stevewarfel5788someone tried and when they called the police to ask if it was legal or not, they were immediately arrested. All it would take is someone who heard that story, to build one and NOT call the cops afterwards to ask for permission lol
They still sell the M-80 but with a reduced charge. The full charge used to be used in military training known as the model 80 artillery simulator, thrown around training troops to accustom them to the noise of the battle field.
What wasn't mentioned was that the introduction of alcohol turns a crazy situation into an insane one. Usually insanity ensues after some guy says "Hold my beer and watch this."
I'm holding a beer now, but never said watch this
The term, "hold my beer" actually refers to playing lawn darts but it works here too.
We used to go to Missouri in the 60s to buy ours. I think we bought a gross (144) for $10-15? I found I could tape an old bolt to them, throw them in a creek or lake and they would sink but still explode. Fun for getting some fish or turtles under water. We also stuck cigarettes on the fuze and it would act like a time delay. Give us time to put them around a neighbor's house at night and we would be long gone when they went off. When we stuck them in empty 5 gallon cans they would break the can open at the seam and bend it back double. Fun times on the farm.
I live on the Mexican border. I've been playing with m80s my whole life. Yes, they're pretty dangerous, but not that dangerous. I've seen them dropped, kicked, thrown, jumped on, and possibly hit with a hammer, but I have never seen one go off that wasn't lit intentionally.
you can light it intentionally then have it go off in your hand
We used to play with quarter sticks all the time when we were younger
Me and a lot of fellow soldiers in the army used to go to Mount Franklin overlooking El Paso and have bottle rocket wars. We’d fire at each other. Those things hurt.
@@MovieMakingManbottle rockets and roman candle fights every summer.
Always thought the point of the government was to make good people suffer for the mistakes of the few.
The state is there to protect the politicians and the rich. They don't really care if a kid blows off his hands, but they get more power by *pretending* to care. It's a disgusting charade.
and take your money while doing it
@@theneverwas2835 and waste your money while taking your money
@@theneverwas2835 and take your money to pay for the medical bills of the idiots.
@@hottractor1999of the idiots who started the whole deal in the first place
I'm 79. These have been around since I was a kid and are quite safe if using common sense. Anything to step on somebody's fun, get over yourself. Let people have a good time and quit being the hall monitor. Boom.
i lit these on 4th of july when i was 8 and it sounded like a gunshot and even put a lil pot hole in the ground
Back in the 60s when the country was somewhat still free. You could buy caps, fuses, stick of dominate in hardware and feed stores.
My my how we went to crape
@chriswaters2327 i still use the fields grandfather got the stumps out with blasting.
Yep, straight to CRAPE.
Go to North Korea for a day then come back and complain about not having enough freedom 😂
Right on, man
M-80s, cherry bombs, & "boat propellers," & bottle rockets. Childhood in the 70s/ 80s couldnt've been the same without 'em
👍 I agree. This country's gone straight to crape, ever since
I used to tie these together as a kid and the explosion would be so loud car alarms would go off and my ears would be ringing for weeks afterwards
@@DannyWildmen then wrap some steel bbs around bottle for some spice
@@DannyWildmen Take a bottle and put Drano and aluminum foil in and put the mouth of a balloon over the opening. Drano and aluminum foil make hydrogen and it fills the balloon. Tie it off, attach a long fuse to it and light it and let it go up in the air. At night you will light up the sky when it goes off and get a deep whooom. We used to do this on McCoy AFB in 1961. Drove the APs crazy but they never caught us. If they had our fathers would have skinned us for sure.
There were no car alarms when m-80s were around.
@@ChristopherKnN i have no idea where you got that from but go off ig
@@ChristopherKnNThe first car alarm was invented in 1913.
I had a M-160 once, twice the size of an M-80. We had those as kids in the 1970s. Cherry Bombs had already gone away by then, but we stall had M-80s. I think you can still get them in places, but the sell them as "farmers reports" to scare off birds.
Back when we were kids we took out a bunch of powder out of a bunch of m-80s and put it into a small plastic container. We lit it expecting a really loud boom. Instead, it made a giant fire ball that looked like a mini nuke going off. Needless to say we didn't try that no more because the flash burnt out several street light sensors in the neighborhood. Lol
You said "back when we were kids" then ended with "street light sensors"!! That is unbelievable to me.
@@stoneneils HUh? What are you getting at?
@@Crustatia-dp7mo I was hoping you'd ask!! When I read "back when we were kids" I assumed like me..that means before there were even colored TVs...not when there were already light sensors..that came about when i was already 30 or 35. You reall made me feel ancient there.
@@stoneneils Oh okay. LOL Gotcha. I know what you mean. When i saw that they were banned in 1970 it made me feel ancient too. 😂
They probably contained inferior aluminium. If you have real German Black the thinnest confinement would make it explode.
In the late 60s and early 70s, street knowledge had it that one M-80 = 1/4 stick of dynamite. Probably an exaggeration but not too far off. Seeing as those (and cherry bombs) had fuses that would remain lit under water it was not unheard of for the occasional crapper to depart it's moorings in the boys bathroom in middle and high school. A real crowd pleaser, that one.
Back in the 70 us kids would go fishing with M-80s in the watershed our town used for the water system
They were a lot of fun back in the day.
When I was a kid/teenager we used to put M-80 inside the big mailboxes that used to be on corners lol
Use to buy a gross of m80s back in the 70s. Never had a accident. Why because I wasn't careless. Anything can be dangerous if you act like a ass. We weren't all a bunch of pussies back then. No internet no cell phones. We still knew how to have fun. So glad I grew up in the 60s.
Same as in the 80s, I so want to go back there
My parents born in the early 60s didn't even allow me to have cap guns or leave the front yard as a kid glad they got to enjoy life as kids though that way they could grow up and make sure no future generations could have that same fun or take the same risks while growing up it's always the older people calling the police and writing opinion pieces in the paper about how obnoxious fireworks are I just love how it's those same people who have such fond memories of when they got to enjoy them but now that they are old they don't want to hear or see them
I totally agree
And to think we used to buy these for twenty five cents and throw them into mailboxes. 😂
and thats why they are illegal now, because idiotic use
Is that what happened to my mailbox
@@TheCybertiger9 in that case baseball bats should be illegal along with automobiles for that matter.
@@flddoc2 sure if you're going to use them for things they weren't attended for
@@TheCybertiger9 lol probably. At least we didn't blow our hands up. I guess that was kind of common.
I grew up with M-80s. Lit them and threw them. We all (the kids) knew they were dangerous as did our parents but somehow we survived without busy bodies and government control. Now it seems there are legions of know it alls who want to tell us how to do everything in life. The best bet would be for all those persons to take a long walk off a 500' cliff and leave the rest of us alone. As the old song went, "We got along without you before we met you and we can get along without you now"!
Awesome Explanation on The Mythical M-80, whispered in the Dark Back Alleys of Suburbs Everywhere, always a Blast
M-80 don't kill people. People kill people. They need to make these more available. I want to own some to protect myself in case my neighbors set some off and out do me.
m80's are for sure dangerous but u could only go deaf blind or lose a finger or two from them and they can be bought in europe on marketstands so never really understood why this is heavily illegal but guns arent (yes guns are mostly for defense and fireworks for pleasure)
You can buy flash powder with proper licensing.
lol the last part
@@Mr.Smith101 we could buy the ingredients on a website we can find on google 😂😂
@@ciphercraft6176It’s good to see the proper use of subtle sarcasm.
“…read the ATF web page for further…”
Like I want to end up on THIER list.
(nvm…I probably already am😂😅)
If you so much as grow crystals for contact caps you're a public threat now. Tyranny
Frankly, if I'm not on a government watchlist at this point, we are all supremely screwed. If I know how to make a thermonuclear device, that means there are people out there with the same knowledge who are far less civically minded.
My uncle nearly blew his fingers (if not his whole hand) off with a cherry bomb as a kid. Luckily, my grandfather was a doctor and could save his hand. What a blessing, as he, in turn, grew up to be a dentist!
If you're dumb enough to hold a cherry bomb after you light the fuse, you really don't have the intelligence it takes to be a dentist. I'm sure he malpracticed his way through his entire career. I've encountered a dentist like that before. Broke my jaw when pulling a wisdom tooth.
Unfortunately, it is common for intelligent men to reproduce with idiot women. They can't handle any challenge to their intelligence so they marry down. Typical of the toxic masculinity which ruled the world. And will continue to do so if you vote for Trump.
I've tossed a lot of flashbangs and even a frag or two. Still have all my appendages. If you're dumb enough to lose digits from a firework, you have all the smarts necessary to be a stockboy. Your uncle is a moron and your grandfather isn't much brighter for enabling him to be a crappy dentist.
Nothing like hearing about rich kids playing with dynamite. What a life of privilege and excess.🎉
@@ricky-sanchez They weren't rich, I assure you! And don't be a douche!
Awesomely informative video! We've tried many times to duplicate the original m-80 when we were younger to no avail not knowing the difference between flash powder and gunpowder whether smokeless or black powder.
I knew some kids that opened up lots of 22 lr rounds to get the powder trying to make m80s. Didn't work of course. Those same kids used the Encyclopedia Britannica to look up the formula for gun powder. Still didn't work. One of them also temporarily lost his eyebrows trying to make homemade fuses. Lol!
Hello, i am glad you've put out something, that provides something to the viewer. I know it's an old video, but glad to see it again.
Now that I've been warned, gimme a box of Silver Salutes!
Besides possible injury the waterproof fuses allowed them to be set off in high school toilets or flushed. This was in the 60’s. Waded through water several times. Also good for stunning fish!
We used to get the Mexican m-80s and those were REALLY dangerous. The ends are sealed with clay/plaster and those plugs turn into missiles when they blow. Set one off and when it blew, I watched a plug whiz in between me and my brother. After that? No mas.
I bought some of those in Tijuana when I was a teenager. They were awesome! Lol
Stand them up on the bottom, then the plugs fly up and down! Don't light them on their side, they can roll and yea, hit you and your brother! Be careful my brothers!
The fuses always sucked on them, at least the ones I ever saw.
Racist historical hogwash.
We played with those goodies at a ripe young age. Blew up everything that looked like it needed it. Tree houses, mailboxes, toilets, birdhouses, sister's dollhouse.That's why at my ripe old age, I still run like hell after lighting a firecracker. Those were firecrackers in the day.
Another thing that I really hate about M-80's etc, is when people try to compare them to the the power of dynamite, this isn't a true comparison because dynamite and TNT detonate and you have to get a license from the ATF to purchase or use dynamite or TNT!
On 7-4-2024, there was a man in Chicago setting off fireworks when a mortar he had lit, misfired. He went to exam the apparently dud firework, was peering down the tube, when the mortar went off. It apparently blasted him pretty badly in his face & head, & he ended up dying from his injuries. I believe that he was 34 yrs old, married, with several kids. RIP!.
Thank You Cipher. You did great work. Each Day you prove that a citizen from Washington has more value than an entire DC Entity.
You gave the public more safety knowledge in 9 minutes than the entire US government has in 100 years.
You are a hero - the ATF aka Gay-TF are zeros.
Thank you American Icon
❤
Sir you should never and I mean never use the words Government and Safety or help in the same sentence NEVER! Lol
@@rhec-cornbread hahhahahaha True that
Great narration and insight into the danger and required safety on these things. We played with em as kids but they are NO JOKE! love the halo 2 music too btw.
I used to shoot M-80s back in the 1970s. The main problem with them was the short one-inch fuse. I used to work in Alaska in the late 1980s, and you could buy seal bombs on Dutch Harbor. They were close to an M-80, but they had a 3-inch fuse and about an inch and a half of empty shell you held them by so you could more safely light them and throw them at seals. Another thing is real dynamite containing nitroglycerine is a completely different animal than flash powder.
TLDR: they will remove your fingers and set your house on fire at the same time
Happy 4th 🇺🇸 Cipher! Can’t wait for the fireworks show you will do tonight
Growing up in El Salvador (fled during the civil war, came to the US in 86) as soon as the clock struck midnight on December 25th and January 1st, all hell broke loose. Everyone would light their firecrackers at the same time. It was deafening and wonderful. Some people had what we called "morteros." Some were 12 inches long and at least 3-4 inches wide. It sounded like a bomb had gone off. Imagine hearing thousands of these at the same time or one after the other. When daylight broke the next day, and went out to the street, you couldn't see the pavement. The streets were littered with little bits of paper from all the exploded firecrackers. So much fun.
Sound like a guy we knew in high school...we knick named him mister shrapnel...was the most scared guy of everything..loose wires...driveing fast..foods that were too hot..sun
the detonation of an explosive is not measured with the pressure wave thats created. but by the speed of sound in the explosive itself, if the flame travels faster than the speed of sound in the material ,then its a detonation
Conflagration front.
Incidents involving explosives are always “human error”
This was a lot more educational than I expected.
I used m80s when I was living at home. It made a hell of bang.
In 1963 we had lots of M-80s. Blew up a lot of stuff!
Back in the seventies you can easily get them.
As a kid I played around w/M80s a few times, but after going through Viet Nam I stay far away from all fireworks.
I think this is a great example of laws making problems worse. If these were all legal they would be safer. As for people taking intentional risks and suffering injury, well, I dint think it’s a problem. That’s their own fault.
Great information about really loud firecrackers 🧨 thanks pyro
Lol
Good info, flash is very touchy, not for beginners
The real M-80 hasn't been available to the consumer for many years.
The kid that worked pumping gas at the local service station had one hand. Seeing that made me want to never mess with this stuff.
firecrackers are just mini bombs and bombs are just bigger firecrackers 🐷
And a firecracker is really just a type of cracker, and bombs are just sbmob spelled backwards.
I recall when they were legal and available in the 1970’s kids were well aware of the power and scared of them. Unfortunately good for vandalism - you could blow-up a regular mailbox with one if made sure to contain it by closing the door - same with a large size mailbox using a double M-80.
We used to throw M-80's into the creek in the early 1970's, since once lit, water wouldn't put out the fuse. They'd make a huge splash. Blew up cans too. They'd be so shreaded, you couldn't even tell, they once were cans!
It sucked, when they were made illegal. I remember, the fireworks companies tried to market "M-90's" as M-80 replacements, but they were anemic pseudo-shadow, ersatz facsimiles, that were like ordinary firecrackers in M-80 clothing.
Yes it did suck - threw an M-80 off a cliff into the water and was also surprised fuse wasn’t put out - the blast of water came up as high as we were. Maybe what you’re talking about - later there were the fake ones with the fuse out the cap instead of the side - not as good.
I remember in the 80's we'd be able to go to the local Kresge's store and pick up every chemical compound to make these 'firecrackers'. We nearly killed ourselves a few times. Great memories. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Now all ya gotta do is go online
1:46 "Aluminium powder is powdered aliuminium." ... It could also be aluminium in powder form. It's been known to contain aluminium with trace amounts of aluminium. It's also completely gluten free.
Gettin' paid by the word...
@@johnyoung9874Kameltoe Harris
It can have gluten if you alloy it with wheat.
Yes, but it's the calories that count!
HHahahaha 😂😂
Never handled an M-80, but in 1981 I would buy an oversized firecracker brand named Tiger Head that sold individually for 55¢. Surprisingly for something meant for the consumer market, it would break a brick in half. And since the fuse would burn underwater, the detonations would produce an interesting high-rise fountain.
8:48 Wohoooo Czechia mentioned
Also there were german and belgian firecrackers 😁
I used to work with some czechs awesome beer drinking friends!
Darwin Theory when we were kids. Thinning herd.
Dangerous, essentially bombs. 17-year-old cousin stepped on a dud thinking to extinguish it and blew a yawning hole in his foot right through his shoe. Thank goodness he kept his foot and went on to play college ball at 6'6" 300lbs.
My worst experience with an M80 was when I stuck it in a fire ant bed and didn't get far enough away and ended up blowing angry ants all over me... 50 stings later, I learned a valuable lesson. They should put that in the next Jackass movie...
High School days back in the 80's we'd get them from a certain kid, along with bricks of salutes, bottle rockets, etc. M80's were harder to get. Lighting them off would usually get the cops cruising around, they were loud, and you felt the explosion! Fun times....
That "certain kid" wouldn't happen to be from Quincy, MA would he? My dad would buy grosses of them along with cherry bombs, fire crackers and bottle rockets. I would take orders for them in school, package them in paper lunch bags with the kids names on them, and have them come to my house for pickup. Did it for a few years starting in 6th grade. That was in 1966. Those were the days.....
@@CompShooter54 Haha, close! I was from Milford, MA back then! You felt like you were doing the crime of the century going to his place, all secretive. He kept them in a big wooden chest in his room.
@@repro7780 Christ, that's pretty close to have 2 knuckleheads doing the same thing in the same state! It must have been more common than I thought. My dad would drive to the Washington DC area to get them and fill his giant Buick Electra with as much as he could fit. I would have a line of kids 20 deep at my door on a Saturday morning picking up their orders. I told them NOT to light anything off until they got home. Nope, as soon as they left my driveway. Those kids were blackballed forever, and had to go somewhere else for their fireworks.
I used to build home-made M-80's back in the 70's using firecracker powder.
I haven't seen one of these since I was a kid, but a friend of mine made a man hole cover lift off after he threw it in a sewer. Pretty powerful. I've been told they are equivalent to a qtr stick of dynamite.
10 ounces of flash in a paint roller tube. It went BANG!!!!!! Big bang.
Illegal fireworks are legal to buy in Idaho.
like what
@@TodayILookInto I don't buy them, so I'm not sure. There is a fireworks warehouse off of exit 77 on interstate 84 east of Boise that sells the illegal stuff. They have one side of the interior painted red and the other side painted blue. The blue side is legal stuff and the red side the illegal fireworks. I think they have a website if you are interested in checking the place out.
I'm lucky to have gotten through adolescence with all 10 fingers and both eyes.
I do professional shows and yes static is an issue, there have been people killed by static ignition.
in the mid-1980s my 16 year old older brother purchased a package of cherry bombs and m-80s for my 8 year old younger brother(they wouldn't sell to anyone under 13) from a major chain drug store in Florida. My younger brother put one of the cherry bombs into a large empty match box and lit it when I wasn't looking and asked me to get a match out of it for him...luckily for me, it exploded before I reached the box on the ground, but I was close enough for the dirt and pebbles hitting my bare thighs to leave little red welts and for my ears to ring for an hour or two afterwards. My brother thought it was hilarious. I decided that day that it isn't worth messing around with them. We moved out of state a few years later where the fireworks laws are a little more strict and I have never seen them in local stores. I don't know whether or not they are still so easy to find in FL, but that incident was around 10 years after the federal ban and no one in that city was acting like they were illegal.
You still can buy m-80s in some stores in Georgia I use to buy them in my teen years.
I'm literally hearing explosions coming from every direction in my city while watching this. 😂
Great research, only thing is most cherry bombs were about 1 gram only
NO WAY!!! I randomly cam across your video and this is my old spot i use to plink with friends at! Cheers and stay safe!
Made lots of home made M-80s, as a teen, in the 1970s. Can use, other oxidizer than potassium chlorate, and powdered magnesium can also be used. It can explode if mostly contained. For a good M-80, you usually want to slow down the flash powder, a bit. The container mostly dictates the explosive power. Don't mix sulfur, or sulfide with potassium chlorate will make it very contact sensitive. Usually not what you want in an M-80.
Of course, for extra danger, when I had nearly finished a shoe box full (so several dozen), my father would look over with a lit cigarette in his mouth, grab a few, so he could pop them off with his friends, back at the office. Still have all seven fingers !
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M - 80's were fun but the cherry bombs seemed to have a bit more BANG !
As I recall the M-80S in the 1970s also had some sort of cement ends on each end of the tube. Same with the M-160s.
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Clicked on the video because of m-80s,stayed because of the halo background music. And science! Thanks for a informative and interesting video.
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Flash powder is way more flammable than tannerite just I totally understand why it's illegal tannerite needs a sharp impact to explode whereas flash power only needs friction or an electrostatic discharge to set it off way more dangerous than tannerite
Have you ever tried? Because no matter how much we hammered the stuff nothing happened.
The aluminium is actually in very fine flakes, they don't create pressure, that's why.
It is a people issue. Not a product issue. Just like everything else.
As has been said the problem is unsupervised humans. That's why purchase/possession/use is illegal in cities.
Another unnecessary governmental banning. Childish. Smh
i set several off already this fourth lol also a full 70 gram cracker under a bridge out in the country is INSANE the whole bridge shakes.
flash powder?
Some local made the news on the fifth this year. He can no longer count to ten on his fingers, only six. Poor decisions often have painful results. BTW all fireworks are illegal in this county
Played with them as a kid This is the first I have heard the ingredients
An M-80, helium baloon, string, cigarette, matachbook fuse, 2 am, my ute!
Many things can be very dangerous. By your logic, cars, planes, trains, boats, ovens, barbecues, etc...should all be illegal.
that is black and white thinking. Water is dangerous and can kill you but it is needed for life. An axe is legal bc you can use it fo ra practical use of cutting wood. M80s don't have a practical use besides entertainment, and thats okay bc they are federally legal to make
I can say, as a kid all we wanted were m-80 type firecrackers. I am glad that we had no access to them. My fingers are glad.
It said right on the side of them " Do not hold in hand". Can't you read?
If you look at some of the old movies from back in the 1920's, you will see photographers holding up a tray of powder. They would ignite the powder to produce a flash so that they would have light for the photograph. This was flash powder. This is what they used before magnesium flash bulbs and before strobe lights.
Modern solid rocket fuel is made with powdered aluminum and ammonium perchlorate plus a plasticizing agent. Amateur rockets, Minuteman missiles, Polaris missiles and the boosters on the space shuttle are all fueled with this. Solid fuel rockets are much easier to handle and have a longer shelf life than liquid fueled ones.
Back in the day, the military made practice hand grenades that were essentially M80 firecrackers. I don't know if they still use these.
I read recently that the military is using a new explosive composed of powdered aluminum and TNT.
Iirc it's called Torpex, and has been in use since at least the second great debate
Commonly used in torpedoes, hence the name
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