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Title: MacReady's SIMPLE explosives, need this file for the rest. R.J.
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Date: 2/7/88
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Time: 11:47 am
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R. J. MacReady's pyrotechnic experiments. File #1. Written
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January 15th, 1988. Have fun!
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These devices aren't of the chemical nature, so they
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should be hard for anyone to build. They are also the
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kinds of devices which can be improved by simply making
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them bigger.
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Simple mine: This is where it all started. The simple land
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mine is used in other MacReady devices. The
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device itself isn't complicated, but takes
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patience to make it work well.
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Materials: Film Cannister (or Folger's Coffee
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can if you wanna blow away the
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block)
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Packs of matches (17 fill a film
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cannister).
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Patience.
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First, take the lid of the cannister or can, etc. and
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cut a square hole in the lid the width of the striking strip
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on a book of matches (about 5mm). Next, cut 4 striker strips
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off the matchbooks. With these you must make a "box". You
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might want to leave an extra millimeter of cardboard on the
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edge of the strips, and bend them so you can glue the edges
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of each strip together. Because it's hard to glue just
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edges together. Form the box around a pencil or something,
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so you can have support when gluing it. Make sure the whole
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inside of the box is the brimstone side of the strips. What
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it will look like when it's made is a 3cm long hollow box,
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with the ends open. You then push this box halfway through
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the lid with the hole in it. Now cut the joint edges of the
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box only on the top side of the lid, so you can fold these
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sides down to the lid, to hold it better. It now will look
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like a lid, will a cross of cardboard on the top side, and on
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the underside, the rest of the box is sticking out. Next
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cut your match heads off and fill the cannister. Then, take
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2 or 3 matches, tape them together tightly, and insert
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them Carefully in the "box" from the top side of the lid.
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MAKE SURE they fit snuggly, otherwise they'll slip about and
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won't strike the insides of the box and therefore light
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everything else. Finally, put the lid on, and tape the son
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a bitch up as much as possible, over the lid as well. Bury
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the whole thing in the ground so just the "button" (the 2 or
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3 matches, which are about half way into the box) are
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sticking above ground. And when someone steps on it, BOOM!
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Of course with a film cannister, the explosion isn't too big,
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but if you had a Godamn coffee can, you could blow someones
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foot off. Or a 2 litre pop bottle, using the cap in place
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of the lid!!
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Look for other files dealing with this subject, written by
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R. J. MacReady.
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P.S. Leave messages in Scavenger Hunts Anarchy message
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sections!
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