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I read an article about hunters in Texas buying a chemical at a sporting goods store that is legal.
They bait a field for hogs and have this chemical close, when hogs get around, they shoot the stuff and blow up several hogs.
They say it's a huge explosion with no fire.
Can't recall the name.
Friend of mine in high school made a contact explosive liquid. Keep it cool and everything was fine. We painted the front porch of a abandoned house. Stood back a shot at with a BB gun. Nothing! Lobbed a half a brick up there and it blew us into next week. He made a mental note to leave that crap alone.
 
Friend of mine in high school made a contact explosive liquid. Keep it cool and everything was fine. We painted the front porch of a abandoned house. Stood back a shot at with a BB gun. Nothing! Lobbed a half a brick up there and it blew us into next week. He made a mental note to leave that crap alone.
Railroads used little devices commonly called torpedoes for signaling purposes back in the day. They were a small, maybe 1-1/2 inch square, 1/2 inch high package with two small lead straps on opposite sides. These things were strapped to the top surface of the rail before a flagman returned to his train after it stopped unexpectedly. When a following train ran over this package it went off with a very loud bang signaling the engineer that he should be ready to stop because of a stopped train ahead. This material was detonated just by the pressure of the locomotive running over it.

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Railroads used little devices commonly called torpedoes for signaling purposes back in the day. They were a small, maybe 1-1/2 inch square, 1/2 inch high package with two small lead straps on opposite sides. These things were strapped to the top surface of the rail before a flagman returned to his train after it stopped unexpectedly. When a following train ran over this package it went off with a very loud bang signaling the engineer that he should be ready to stop because of a stopped train ahead. This material was detonated just by the pressure of the locomotive running over it.

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Tri, you are telling your age.
I thought I would be the only one who remember those.
It was rare to find one when we played on the tracks
We would place it where it shouldn't be and run.
 
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