THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

GreyQueen

:rotfl:Your school sounds so much more interesting than mine.


I was rather surprised when my Dad remarked that you can mix sugar into your molotov cocktail to make the petrol stick to whatever it lands on when the bottle breaks. How and why this mild-mannered responsible citizen ever learned this and why he thought I might need to know remain among the great unanswerable questions of the age.

DigForVictory

Sounds like shrewd parenting to me.

My dad was a little startled to find I carried a demoiselle of naff cava with me. He'd though he'd raised a better-educated-in-wines daughter. He was a tad upset to find I carried it not in case of thirst, but as a grenade. (Mostly as I'm an appalling shot.)

Flamethrowers being illegal, a sweet molotov seems mild extended use of sugar - general knowledge for the amusement of. (It also does Evil Evil thing to motors if dumped in the fuel tank. Things our Dads taught us, eh?!)

Proper custard powder pipe bombs with light shrapnel sounds like a much better & more memorable use of school custard than anything my lot achieved!

DigForVictory

Y'know I research 'unexpected uses for sugar' & I get some really *unimaginative* ideas.
Erase Grass Stains, Clean the Grinder, Wipe Out Nematode Worms (when I think of the effort I put into sourcing nemotodes to fight slugs, I could weep), Win a Bet (you can't light a clean sugar lump with a match, but grubby it up with cigarette ash & it burns a treat, seemingly...), Pedicure (but you use soap & pumice anyway), Melt ice & snow...

& then the slightly less 'try this at home' ones
"Mix equal parts sugar and concentrated sulfuric acid in a beaker to make charcoal.", "Use more of the mixture and make a sugar snake. (eh?)" & "In a fireproof container mix a small amount of sodium chlorate and sugar. Initiate the reaction by adding a few drops of sulfuric acid." (Not sure about you but I don't think sulphuric acid is in my *everyday* kit list, but there are Things in the lads' rooms that I don't want to Meet, let alone Categorise).

Mind, other sites do reckon a sprinkling of sugar *helps* a fire to light, and that sugar cubes have a place in a first aid kit as an antibacterial but not on a bleed as it can *increase* the flow of blood.

Not a cheep about it's unsuspected life as a fuel additive.

[Deleted User]

I rather fancy making a hairspray powered potato gun.

DigForVictory

Where would you put the sight?

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I can't quite believe I'm reading this

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

DigForVictory wrote: »

Y'know I research 'unexpected uses for sugar' & I get some really *unimaginative* ideas.
Erase Grass Stains, Clean the Grinder, Wipe Out Nematode Worms (when I think of the effort I put into sourcing nemotodes to fight slugs, I could weep), Win a Bet (you can't light a clean sugar lump with a match, but grubby it up with cigarette ash & it burns a treat, seemingly...), Pedicure (but you use soap & pumice anyway), Melt ice & snow...

& then the slightly less 'try this at home' ones
"Mix equal parts sugar and concentrated sulfuric acid in a beaker to make charcoal.", "Use more of the mixture and make a sugar snake. (eh?)" & "In a fireproof container mix a small amount of sodium chlorate and sugar. Initiate the reaction by adding a few drops of sulfuric acid." (Not sure about you but I don't think sulphuric acid is in my *everyday* kit list, but there are Things in the lads' rooms that I don't want to Meet, let alone Categorise).

Mind, other sites do reckon a sprinkling of sugar *helps* a fire to light, and that sugar cubes have a place in a first aid kit as an antibacterial but not on a bleed as it can *increase* the flow of blood.

Not a cheep about it's unsuspected life as a fuel additive.

Battery Acid.

Toilet and Drain cleaners (now subject to very strict rules about concentration, but there could be old bottles, independent shops where the owners aren't too particular about selling Trade Products to private customers, that sort of thing.

It would possibly be cheaper in the long run to add a viscous substance rather than granular sugar - golden syrup, maybe some oil? Seems a sad waste of alcohol in the first place, though; it's better to sulk in the darkness with your gin or brandy than to waste it on a pointless gesture against a tank, for example.

maryb

You'll all get a knock on the door if you're not careful:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I rather fancy making a hairspray powered potato gun.

You' get reported for buying hairspray being as you are a bald feller, it would be sooo suspicious.


DigForVictory, I hope all those instructions were captions Don't try this at home, folks.


Jesting aside, one of my pals accidentally mixed bleach with a toilet bowl cleaner and gassed herself in her own home. Medical emergency, permanant lung damage, every cold becomes a nasty chest infection. Be careful, folks.

DigForVictory

I stand by my opinion that the correct person to clean the loo is the person who made it unpleasant in the first place and to Only Ever Use One Product (other than elbow grease, [and I am very disappointed some blighter has used that as a brand name]) at a time.

Says she who made a killing cleaning student flats after their leases were up & the place had to be returned to tourist grade in under 48 hours. Neat bleach, left while I scrubbed the rest of the house, & my word the toilets came up glorious...)

Anyone with sulphuric acid usually needs a dashed convincing explanation for same as well as the appropriate tackle & a first aid kit. (In my case, it's probably "ye gods what have the menfolk been up to now?" but then that may appear on my tombstone. It's supposed to read "it worked for us"...)