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- Plastic Cherry Bombs- A Theoretical Method of Manufacture
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- I have heard rumors of special cherry bombs available on the black market
- that had a plastic red case (as opposed to the rock-hard case in traditional
- cherry bombs). This sounds like a desirable safety measure, because it
- eliminates the dangerous shrapnel of a traditional case. This was not the
- only difference, however. Reports of their strength show that the explosive
- couldn't possible be the same relatively mild flash powder in ordinary cherry
- bombs. I heard once that someone took one and put it in a crevasse in a
- concrete house foundation and lit it. The bomber claims that it blew a 6" hole
- in the cement. The strength of the bomb, which was supposedly no larger than
- an ordinary cherry bomb leads me to believe that it used a high explosive, such
- as C-3 or C-4. Other high explosives such as mercury fulminate (the only one
- I have any experience with) couldn't do that much damage. C-4 is almost
- impossible to find now, but it was more common in past days (around the
- mid-sixties). That could explain why I've never seen or heard of one except
- from pyros who were growing up in the 60s. Though I've never seen or used it,
- I know a little about how C-4 works, so I have a general idea of how the
- plastic cherry bomb might have been designed. Red plastic cups (like the
- wooden cherry bomb cups of the past) might be filled with C-4, with a blasting
- cap attached to commercial fuse in the middle and cemented together. The fuse
- wouldn't be enough to detonate the plastic explosive, so the bomb wouldn't
- detonate until the fuse reached the blasting cap and the cap detonated the
- explosive.
- It is hardly nessacary to say so, because it isn't likely that anyone
- reading this phile could get hold of the materials to build it, but I strongly
- suggest that, if you DO happen to have a little C-4 laying around, you don't
- try this. The design is based entirely on speculation and, it is quite
- possible that I have overlooked some critical aspect of the materials involved
- that could cause spontanious detonation, poisionous fumes, hairy palms,
- blindness, impotency, etc., etc. If you do try it, I assume no responsibility
- for whatever happens. That just about wraps this one up. Watch for more philes
- (including a new surveillance series) by,
-
- The Gaurdian
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