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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
We also have a piece or railroad rail as an anvil, it was probably bought by my great grandfather. I think we might have a real anvil somewhere in the basements, iirc my grandfather used to have one in the barn at his holiday house and my father took most of his tools with him when the plot was sold.
Traditional Dutch fun with explosive things: carbide shooting. From Wikipedia:
I think either the lid or a ball is used to close up the milk churn and that shoots off, the milk churn itself doesn't explode.
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We used to make carbide cannons with paint cans. You put a pin hole in the bottom of the can, drop in the carbide, spit on it, seal the lid on tight, then hold a match or a lighter to the pin home. A loud boom results. As does a bill for a large amount of cash 40 years later when you get the hearing aids...