Stupid things I did as a kid

[Jimbo55 0]

Following on from the DIY disco items thread. It brought back a number of 'stupid stuff I did' as a kid memories.

 

 

When I was in my last years at school I was a trusted 'lab technician' (fools http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/221.gif ) at the Tech I used to attend. I had the priviledge if setting up the lab experiments for the lower school. I had access to all sorts of goodies. Sodium, Lithium, Magnesium, sulpher, etc and I knew how to make black powder.

The idea, make gun powder, contain it, blow it up. Great idea http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/fright.gif

 

Stage 1. So with the help of my class mates we mixed a few batches and tested them in the fume cupboard. Nice satisfing flash.

 

Stage 2. We then put about a tea spoon of the mix in a test tube and put it into clamp so we could heat it over a bunson burner to ignight it by pushing it into the flame with a broom handle (see we were not that stupid keep a safe distance). The resultant WHOOSH sent the stand about 4 feet along the bench.

 

Stage 3. Same set up only put a cork in the tube. Push into flame and leg it under the benches. The resulting bang made our ears ring. We panicked and thought the whole school would hear it. Nobody came. we could not find any of the test tube.

 

Stage 4. Same again. We had run out of 'mix' so we mixed up another one. As we retired to a safe distance. The deputy Head came into the lab. Where we had set up the stand on the teachers desk he was only about 6 feet from the test tube.

We freaked out and told him to duck. I legged it and turned the buson burner out. I still don't know why it did not go off. I can only assume that the mix was wrong

 

Result... Banned from Lab. A months lunch time detention.

 

Why so light? We explained that we were trying to pop the cork from the test tube by heating up the air. He never got to see the powder.

 

In my next Lab class lesson I found a piece of glass embeded in one of the cabinet doors. Everyone was so lucky.

 

This was one of my more minor ones, Any one else?

 

Jimbo

[brianmole 0]

ERM, I lit the candles on the xmas tree once whilst mum & dad were in bed. I was about 4 at the time, and my only memory of the event was of sitting on my mums lap whilst she was calling the fire brigade whilst my otherwise placid dad was madly throwing buckets of water into the living room.

 

I also remember my dad redorating the whole house shortly afterwards. http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/newyear.gif

 

 

[Welsh Audio Man 21 0]

when i were little, i used to like seeing how things work... but my dad had to convince me to take interest in something else after his television, radio, extension leads, lamps, all started to loose parts and not work... http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif

 

i was only 4... http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/rolleyes.gif

[vibemobilediscos 0]

had a bad thing with fire and watching/hearing aersols burn and explode in it.

 

or running around houseing estates around 1am with fog horns and a wednesdy night.

as allways ended anight in a cell... sooo cold.

 

learnd from it and moved on thnkfully lol

[RichardP 0]

Think I was about 7 when I figured out something on my Lego train set - the little connector plug coming from the 3V headlight bricks not only plugged into the lego 2AA battery pack, but was also an ideal mate for a 'figure-of-eight' 240V mains lead used to power our Ferguson radio/tape player.

 

Plugged it in, switched it on and bang the innards of the little headlight brick shot straight across the bedroom making a small hole in the wooden panelling. Glad I wasn't in its path http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/fear.gif

[wizard 0]

My parents mistakenly bought me a woodworking kit for xmas when i was about 5 or 6, they awoke one morning to me sawing the legs off of the living room chairs http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/fear.gif

 

when i was slightly older my mother won one of the first transistor radios in a raffle at work.................... being interested in all things technical I decided to take it to bits to see how it worked. ..... unfortunately lost interest in putting it back together .... so hid all the pieces under her bed...... she was not amused.

 

I have got worse as I get older .... I get bored very quickly http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/tongue.gif

[DJ_Ajay 0]

I'm still doing stupit things, because I am a kid http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/tongue.gif

[Cheezy 0]

Like RichardP and the lego, i was the same age, this time with a Mechano motor. "That will run faster from the mains" Result, huge bang and flash with bits of motor everywhere and a large black mark on the wall!!

 

 

Also at the age of 3 I took apart a 2pin plug! A year before that I took a bulb out of a bedside lamp, switched it on and stuck my fingers in where the bulb was! Bang! Toddler in space! http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/wacko.gif

 

I'm now an electrical engineer! http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/tongue.gif

 

Cheezy

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