Wonderer67
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Love that! Great memories!!!We would make ‘firecrackers’ from caps
Start by getting a sharp, straight, sewing needle. Next, poke the needle through the powder spot on the cap roll. Continue zig zagging the needle and aligning the powder. When the roll is threaded onto the needle take a single paper match to make a fuse. Put the match head on the ‘column’ of caps and use clear Scotch tape. Add nd wrap it tight around the cap. Carefully pull the needle and don’t let the whole works spring out. Use tape to compress it with the paper end of the match sticking out. That’s the fuse. It makes a firecracker a little stronger than a Black Cat
This is how we got firecrackers in a state they were banned
Careful that you don’t scratch with the pin. You’ll set off a hot flare in your fingers not an explosion
Lots of work to I make a single cap but what do ten year old kids in the ‘60s do all summer
We’d line up 5 or 10 cap rolls and race to see who could hammer them the fastest. This all would go on for a couple hours until we got yelled at to stop
Oh the memories