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Things That Go ‘BOOM’ and Other Stuff That Rulez


Things That Go ‘BOOM’ and Other Stuff That Rulez

Issue One

Written by

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Gut Shoveler (Gutz)

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WARNING: Don’t try this at home. If you’re stupid enough to try any of this

shit, we’re not responsible. We aren’t gonna pay your hospital bills because

you blew
off your thumb. We’ll just laugh at you. WE AREN’T RESPONSIBLE FOR

ANY DAMAGES CAUSED
BY USE OF ANY OF THE MATERIAL PRESENTED IN THIS FILE.

WD bomb:
/> Of all the cheap homemade bombs available, the WD bomb is one of the coolest.

If
you’re lucky, you can even get a nice mushroom cloud with this bomb.

Ingedients: />

1 FULL can of WD-40 (or any compressed flammable substance)

1 tube of rubber
cement

1 lighter (or match)

1 bb gun (can be reused)

1 bb
(can be reused if you’re stupid enough to spend the time to find it)

Directions: />

Put the WD can down on the ground. Cover it with the rubber cement. Or, if

you’re too cheap to use rubber cement, start a fire on and around it (a Chud

variant is
good for this.) Then, light the rubber cement. If you got the

good kind of cement, it
should burn well. Now, get the hell away and shoot

it with the bb gun. See, we told you
it ruled.

Chud:

Chud is a simple long burning high heat
small flame material. It can be

used to replace rubber cement in the WD bomb. Chud is
the gas mixture,

however, several different mixtures exist and are specifically named.
By

the way, this shit is hard to put out. I should know, I once kicked a

mixture of this under someone’s shed.

Ingredients:

2/3 flour

1/3 flammable liquid

Directions:

Put the flour and flammable liquid in a
cup. Stir until the mixture has a

dogh-like texture. You may need to adjust the ratios
of the flour and the

flammable liquid.

Flammable Liquids:

As
stated above, Chud has several variants. The gas mixture (plain Chud) is

recommended
because of its high flammability and low cost. However, in

certain cases Chud may not
be the best mixture. Here is a list of

substitutions for the gas:

Gas –
Chud

Oil – Chug

Anti-freeze – Chuff

Anything else – Chuz />

Works Bomb:

Most everyone has heard of the Works (or
hydrochloric acid) bomb. Well, we

figured we’d reprint it for the sake of those who
don’t know about it. The

Works bomb is just a simple pressure bomb. You put two
materials that

react with each other (in this case, hydrochloric acid and tin foil) in
a

container (in this case, a two liter bottle) and the pressure builds up

until the container makes a really big ‘BOOOOOM.’ Someone I knew did this

in a forest
right next to a little league baseball team while they were

practicing. The bomb
exploded and sounded so loud that the coach (from over

100 yards away) thought it was a
gun shot and had the little league players

lay on the ground for 10 minutes. Pretty
realistic, huh? Well, the problem

is that you don’t tell the bomb when to go off. The
bomb goes off when it

damned well pleases (well actually when there’s so much pressure
in the

container.) So, you may have to do it a few times and try to get the same />

amounts of tin foil and Works in the bottle to get an estmate of the time

it
takes (usually greater than 5 minutes.)

Ingredients:

1 plastic two liter
bottle (gets blown to shreds)

some amount of hydrochloric acid (Works toilet bowl
cleaner)

some amount of tin foil

Directions:

Put the tin foil
in the bottle. Then, pour the Works into the two liter and

get the cap on as quickly as
possible. Don’t be afraid, you have a little

while to run. As I said above, you will
have to play around with the

amounts of tin foil and Works you use. Generally, don’t
fill the bottle

over 1/3 with the combination of both. Don’t stand within 15 feet when
it

goes off. I heard of someone blowing off thier hand by holding one of

these (there are some real dumbasses, aren’t there?)

Liquid Nitrogen
Bomb:

The Liquid Nitrogen bomb is simply a varient of the Works bomb. For those />

that don’t know, liquid nitrogen is that really cold shit (like 74 degrees

Kelvin.) You can get it at most Chemistry labs. The bomb explodes because

as the Liquid
Nitrogen warms up, it gets bigger until there’s enough

pressure to blow up the bottle.
The Liquid Nitrogen bomb is probably the

coolest pressure bomb easily available. />

Ingredients:

1 plastic two liter bottle

a little less than 2
liters of liquid nitrogen

Directions:

Put the liquid nitrogen in the
bottle. Close the top real tight. Run like

hell. It should take about 5-15 minutes for
the bomb to go off.

Dry Ice Bomb:

The Dry Ice bomb is yet
another variation of the Works bomb.

Ingredients:

1 plastic two liter
bottle

some dry ice

some water

Directions:

Put
the dry ice and water into the bottle. Close the top really tight.

Run like hell. It
should take a little while for the bomb to go off.

Molotov Cocktail: />

The Molotov Cocktail is a long range gasoline delivery system. It also

makes
a very nice fire where ever it hits. By the way, the people who

wrote the CyberPunk
2020 RPG game thought Molotovs were so cool, the

combat rules for using them are listed
on page 111 in the CyberPunk 2020

rule book.

Ingredients:

1
glass bottle (MUST be glass)

1 rag (a tampon is better if you can get one)

1 lighter (or match)

some duck tape (the good kind)

some gas (enough to
fill the bottle)

Directions:

Fill the glass bottle with the gasoline.
Then, soak the rag (or tampon) in

gasoline. Fit the rag into the opening in the bottle.
Tape the rag there

with the duck tape (that’s why you need good duck tape.) After you
have

assembled the cocktail, light the rag (or tampon), throw it, and run the />

hell away. See, we told you it ruled.

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come….

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