Potato Cannon On Steroids
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Yesterday, my dad and I took 1000 matchheads and clipped of the ends, then mixed it with black powder. We stuck it in the end of a PVC pipe and jammed the other end with a potato. Then we capped off the black powder end and lit it with a fuse.
The potato was sent flying through the air in two parts, and then disintegrated at the apex of its flight. A massive fireball exploded out of the potato end of the cannon, with two smoke colors and a rapid popping noise. The black powder end of the cannon set the grass around it aflame and blasted a small hole in the concrete behind it.
So today we're planning to put in 30,000 matchheads and three fireworks-worth of black powder and explode it soon. I'll see if I can get a video out.
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