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Fragmenting Pipe Bomb
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killer_elite Frequent Poster |
posted August 09, 1999 01:07 AM
 
For decades the military constructed hand grenades with grooves cut on the outside of the grenade. They reasoned the grenade would fragment along these grooves. They were wrong. The grenade blew into only 3 or 4 pieces. The grooves needed to be on the inside of the grenade for multiple fragmentation. The same rule applies for proper pipe bomb fragmentation. The grooves should be file on the INSIDE of the pipe. Additional shrapnel may be added by coating the inide of the pipe with glue and then dropping in several packages of BB's. The loose BB's will adhere to the walls. This should be done until none of the inner pipe wall is visible. This method works much better than simply mixing BB's with the black powder. The pipe usually explodes long before all the black power burns up. Shrapnel mixed with the powder is wasted in this manner. killer_elite@my-Deja.com |
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megalomania Administrator |
posted August 09, 1999 08:01 PM
Seems to me it would be easier to make a cardboard tube and glue it to the bottom (just pour lots of glue in and center the tube). The tube would of course be a BB width smaler than the pipe. Just fill the gap between tube and cardboard and you should have saved some time. Then fill the center of the tube with explosive. Oh, how would one score the inside of a pipe? ------------------ |
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ezekiel Frequent Poster |
posted August 10, 1999 08:44 AM
Use a good lathe , or put it in a clamp and use a dremil multi tool or something like it ------------------ |
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