@mr.robot.5.9 well, we gotta defend our property somehow
@hamiltonburger45747 сағат бұрын
Brings back great memories! I'm surprised I still have all of my fingers. Remember putting a coffee can over an M80 and it turned it inside out!
@jstdr477414 сағат бұрын
We used to get M-100's
@dougholdem289814 сағат бұрын
In 1968 I attempted to throw a lit M-80 out the window of our 1965 Mustang while seated in the passenger seat. The window was only 1/2 down when I went to throw it my elbow hit the glass and I dropped the lit M-80 in my crotch. I grabbed it, flung it out the window and ducked. It went off about 1 foot out the window. My older brother who was in the drivers seat was pissed off to say the least. I on the other hand was happy to still have Big Jim and the twins still attached.
@krstoner5315 сағат бұрын
Any of you older guys remember the old black Joe firecracker’s back in the late 50’s before the cherry bombs started showing up at your old country stores? Always looked forward to Christmas break and getting a bale of them and a box of cherry bombs later on in the 60’s
@FlorentinoRebuildingCo.564420 сағат бұрын
Young people playing with cherry bombs and m-80's ??? We're going to be alright people......we're going to be alright.
@jimholland159221 сағат бұрын
Nice
@canyoncruzr346223 сағат бұрын
Agawam, Mass in '69. We were 11 year olds that got hold of some M80's. Now that was good times.
@dogsbyfireКүн бұрын
Thanks for a cool trip down memory lane. As much fun as those things were, I am grateful to have my eyes and fingers and wouldn’t want other kids to mess around with them. Just too dangerous. But I appreciate the video!
@jacobsrandomvideochannel4586Күн бұрын
@dogsbyfire No problem man, it was fun showing the newer generations what was commonly available at the old times compared to today's legal stuff
@crayolascentsКүн бұрын
Yeah I remember being a kid in the late 1960's. We had the good stuff.
@georgematthis4196Күн бұрын
Had to know how to ask for M-80s at the fireworks shops in South Carolina. If they thought you knew what you were doing they would sell them to you. Kept them under the counter. We used to play "army" with Cherry Bombs in the plowed over corn fields in the fall. I know I wasn't the only one wandering around not able to hear or see clearly after those episodes. Lucky we weren't hurt....
@rodeleon2875Күн бұрын
you forgot about the m200 aka quarter stick.
@gregwilliams386Күн бұрын
I worked with a kid who made his own M80. He made it stronger than usual and blew the men's room off it's foundation at the local high school. He was caught by the FBI.
@eyefreely9682Күн бұрын
Naw.... Best Fireworks come from Mexico
@jacobsrandomvideochannel4586Күн бұрын
@eyefreely9682 lol yea, especially the Hammer Festival hammers XD, gotta be fun hammering 200 grams of explosives attached to the hammer
@mikewalters3048Күн бұрын
I am a "back in the day" (1960s) firecracker guy. There was the relatively tame Black Cats. The big boys were the cherry bomb, silver salute, and the M-80. We always figured the M-80 was a little more powerful than the other two. To properly compare them, especially in a video where the sound does not properly translate, you need to blow-up three identical model airplanes or cars to see which is most efficient and scatters the parts the farthest.
@allanpolk2681Күн бұрын
Yeah, your definitely from back in the 1960s, because that is EXACTLY what we used to do. While I was in military school in the 60s, one of the cadets lit a cherry bomb and flushed it down the toilet. Problem was, his room was directly over the mess hall and the thing went off and blew a hole the size of your fist in the pipe in the wall, and even blew a six inch hole in the wall. This of course started a minor flood in the mess hall and causing a great plumbing emergency to get the mess hall put back together before the nest meal. The dorm building was an old 1920s era hotel, so the administration blamed it on the age of the plumbing, and never knew the actual cause. GREAT TIMES ! ! !
@mehmetpekgoz56382 күн бұрын
güçlü
@mehmetpekgoz56382 күн бұрын
güzel
@NotchFox2 күн бұрын
As a kid we always had a few cherry bombs, smoke bombs and regular firecrackers. For some reason we never bought m-80's. By far my favorite were always bottle rockets. Shot them out of electrical conduit like bazookas. Had wars with them. Great fun!
@tomcardillo57572 күн бұрын
Pineapple 🍍
@leehranicka36892 күн бұрын
My dad was buying cherry bombs and M-80s by the gross when we passed back through the South to WI in the 60’s. He was WWII demolition. I still have a “bag full” of those CB/M80s - yup, fray the fuse tip, light and RUN!
@chuckharst86762 күн бұрын
Love the m80
@rick-wg4in3 күн бұрын
I'll never forget when a neighbor kid said you could hold a firecracker in your hand, and not get hurt. He said the trick was that you just needed to hold it tightly. I guess he didn't hold it tight enough. His hand and fingers looked like hamburger meat.
@allensauler79603 күн бұрын
Ashcans or M-80’s (???) RULE! ! !
@Ihitthings33 күн бұрын
Yup… that’s about right. The blockbusters were a bit bigger than the m-80’s. Thankfully my friends and I still have our fingers and hands intact
@paulb63044 күн бұрын
Someone get this man a lighter
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45864 күн бұрын
@@paulb6304 And a cigar, jk, anyways gotta "match" the olden times when matches & punks were commonly used even though zippo lighters were available
@ShaneHammons4 күн бұрын
When I was about 8 I found a cherry bomb and thought it was a smoke bomb. We don't have them in our state It came from a neighbor state. So I had it in my left hand and lit it, waiting for it to start to smoke before I threw it. Well you can guess what happened next, I still got my hand but spent the rest of the summer waiting for it to heal. Lost most of the meat in the palm.
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45864 күн бұрын
@ShaneHammons Damn, that's scary
@frankmacleod25654 күн бұрын
ahhhhh, the memories
@davidthomspson97714 күн бұрын
Backin the day we got m-79 detonation simulators from my best friends dad marine corps buddy...to us they were just fireworks. Now you could get a Fed profile on you just for thinking about them.
@Bitterstone38495 күн бұрын
M- 200's. 💪🇺🇸
@NiteOwl4715 күн бұрын
Those M-80s were NO JOKE. We used to get real creative blowing up stuff in the early 70s with them. I seam to remember they were equivalent to an eighth stick of dynamite. How we were able to aquire them as kids I have no recollection, but amazingly I still have both my hands and all ten fingers!! 😆🤣🤣
@joeybagadonuts34715 күн бұрын
Anyone remember something called a "Blockbuster"? It was 1/4 stick of dynamite.....huge and the dream of every kid in 1950's and 60's north Jersey.
@michaelzukowski55413 күн бұрын
Went to NY Chinatown back in 86 bought a gross of em which is 144 boy did we have fun
@joeybagadonuts34713 күн бұрын
@@michaelzukowski5541 You bet! I had one with a fast fuse that almost took my hand off.
@brianmaricle96465 күн бұрын
That's nothing you should see what an unopened can of pork and beans dose in a fire lol
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45865 күн бұрын
@brianmaricle9646 Lmao! I could imagine that, looks like the can had too much beans
@Caje-zf8md6 күн бұрын
A few years ago I came across something that I'd never seen before. They resembled the M-80/silver salute but on a bigger scale measuring 1X2-inches. The body of the explosive was white with stripes and had a wick in the center. We placed one on the end of a 2x4 and it shredded the 2x4. We placed another along side of a wheelbarrow to deflect the detonation away from us and it punched a fist-sized hole right through it. These would definitely take your hand off if you weren't careful.
@danstromness51656 күн бұрын
Cherry bomb flushed down the toilet was almost a right of passage in school.
@garypayne-tl1le6 күн бұрын
I heard that the m80 was a 1/4 stick of dynamite, thus people loosing fingers, thus them being banned
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45866 күн бұрын
@garypayne-tl1le yea, heard terrible stories of people blowing off their hands with one, luckily it wasn't a real quarter stick of nitroglycerin based dynamite, or they will be meeting Jesus shortly.
@robertcheslock96366 күн бұрын
Back in the sixties we played with Torpedoes (rail road-signals), Cherry Bombs and M-80s. They all had as much power as the M-150
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45866 күн бұрын
@robertcheslock9636 Ah yes, fun stuff indeed, too bad ppl misuse them and got them banned (millions of dollars in plumbing damage from flushed down M-80s, mailboxes being destroyed, and playing who could hold an M-80 etc the longest)
@bobnunn65076 күн бұрын
The good old days! Bought at the corner store and had a great time. Today in NJ you cant get the good stuff any more.
@michaelzukowski55413 күн бұрын
Go to Chinatown end of June you'll get all the good stuff u want lol
6 күн бұрын
Not true M80 or Cherry Bomb of the 70's , I seen those things turn hands into hamburger........
@michaelperine27807 күн бұрын
When I was in seventh grade, I would make black powder with 65% potassium nitrate, 25% sulfur, and 10% powdered charcoal. Fuse was regular mailing chord, potassium nitrate, sugar, and water Another fun thing was making hydrogen by running an electric current through a light sulfuric acid solution. My parent rued the day that they bought me the chemistry set.
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45867 күн бұрын
@@michaelperine2780 Fascinating, wish chemistry sets of the past were still around
@russmoore1677 күн бұрын
Cherry bombs were, in fact, more powerful than the M-80s….at least those available in the 1960’s; take this from someone who almost loss 3 fingers from a CB in 1967.
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45867 күн бұрын
@@russmoore167 Oof!
@carlrudd18587 күн бұрын
Silver Salutes were the thing where I grew up.
@juno44947 күн бұрын
I've never seen a Flash Salute, but growing up in the 60s/70s, we had a lot of M-80s and thought they were the most powerful things around, but then I lit up my first cherry bomb on the backyard fence gate. When the smoke cleared, there was only the bottom half of the gate left, and a new king of boom was crowned.
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45867 күн бұрын
@juno4494 Awesome! Never knew a cherry bomb could blow the top half of a fence gate off
@user-dy5gy2rp6h8 күн бұрын
If you flush a M-80🧨 down the toilet....⚡💥 ... believe me ...you will wish you never did that....🛑🙊 EXTREME DAMAGE 💥💦
@user-dy5gy2rp6h8 күн бұрын
From what I heard... the M80 is exactly a Quarter of a stick of Dynamite 🧨🤯 Or 4 - M80s equals One Stick of Dynamite 🧨💥
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45868 күн бұрын
@user-dy5gy2rp6h flash powder is no comparison to high explosives such as dynamite, 3 grams of flash confined on a rocky road will maybe chuck loose rocks 5 ft without making a significant crater on the rocky road, while 3 grams of real nitroglycerin based 50% dynamite will easily blow a hole 4 1/2" wide and 3/4" deep on a rocky road and send rocks flying past 30 ft easily, I think they call M-80s quarter sticks of dynamite because it is loud like a small quarter stick of real dynamite, but it sounds a tad different from real dynamite and lacks the destructive power of high explosives
@888jackflash8 күн бұрын
I miss M-80's. I ALSO miss Blockbusters... but I can see why they are banned. Waaah!
@JohnnySplattWadd8 күн бұрын
Growing up in northeast Los Angeles in the 60's & 70's we had an old Mexican ice cream truck man who also sold Mexican firecrackers but only if he knew you well. Some were triangular in shape and some were 3 inch M-80's and then there was the 6 inch long 1/2 stick of dynamite. They were grey and didn't have the waterproof fuses. We would drop them into pesky neighbors mail slots directly in to the house and disappear like ninja's into the darkness.🧨🧨
@XxfortprosYTxX29 күн бұрын
so 2.5 times stronger than consumer?
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45869 күн бұрын
@XxfortprosYTxX2 probably more than 2.5x stronger than flash, from what I hear, standard Flash powder has around 2,000m/s det velocity while Etn has a det velocity of somewhere around 8,000m/s, making ETN 4x more powerful than standard Flash powder, ETN really likes to throw stuff around as I have figured out by detonating 0.55g of ETN under a medium sized rock on an empty rocky road, it sent surrounding rocks flying past 20 feet away from the detonation and left a small crater as wide as my palm (3 1/2 inch in diameter) that was at least 1/2" deep, the power was similar to what a 2-3 gram flash powder firecracker would have done, the rock which was sitting on top of the ETN was obliterated into smaller chunks which were sent flying 30 feet away from the road, 0.5 grams of flash would only launch the rock on top of it like 3 feet high and surrounding rocks would be sent like 5 inches away or not even budge
@XxfortprosYTxX28 күн бұрын
@jacobsrandomvideochannel4586 I was just judging by weight. I didn't know the exact composition of your flash powder
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45868 күн бұрын
@XxfortprosYTxX2 The flash comp was just store bought firecracker flash, so its probably 7/3 perc/al
@BearValleyPyro9 күн бұрын
Beautiful. What did you use to set the ETN off ? TATP, HMTD, Silver Acetylide? I have made a bunch of that stuff. I have almost 100 grams of it thats a little over a year old. I should just blow a hole in something with it 😂 If you do a good job washing it it will last for years.
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45869 күн бұрын
I initiated the ETN with some Rocket Candy, the etn was wrapped in foil then surrounded with another layer of foil but with Rocket Candy inside surrounding the foil containing the ETN, then a fuse was placed into the Rocket Candy and lastly, the foil is then crimped around the fuse. Also this etn was recrystallized twice
@jordanhess20619 күн бұрын
What did you use as a cap ?
@jacobsrandomvideochannel45869 күн бұрын
@jordanhess2061 the ETN was initiated with the sheer heat of rocket candy with aluminum foil separating the ETN from the Rocket Candy hence "thermal shocked"
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@mr.robot.5.9 well, we gotta defend our property somehow
Brings back great memories! I'm surprised I still have all of my fingers. Remember putting a coffee can over an M80 and it turned it inside out!
We used to get M-100's
In 1968 I attempted to throw a lit M-80 out the window of our 1965 Mustang while seated in the passenger seat. The window was only 1/2 down when I went to throw it my elbow hit the glass and I dropped the lit M-80 in my crotch. I grabbed it, flung it out the window and ducked. It went off about 1 foot out the window. My older brother who was in the drivers seat was pissed off to say the least. I on the other hand was happy to still have Big Jim and the twins still attached.
Any of you older guys remember the old black Joe firecracker’s back in the late 50’s before the cherry bombs started showing up at your old country stores? Always looked forward to Christmas break and getting a bale of them and a box of cherry bombs later on in the 60’s
Young people playing with cherry bombs and m-80's ??? We're going to be alright people......we're going to be alright.
Nice
Agawam, Mass in '69. We were 11 year olds that got hold of some M80's. Now that was good times.
Thanks for a cool trip down memory lane. As much fun as those things were, I am grateful to have my eyes and fingers and wouldn’t want other kids to mess around with them. Just too dangerous. But I appreciate the video!
@dogsbyfire No problem man, it was fun showing the newer generations what was commonly available at the old times compared to today's legal stuff
Yeah I remember being a kid in the late 1960's. We had the good stuff.
Had to know how to ask for M-80s at the fireworks shops in South Carolina. If they thought you knew what you were doing they would sell them to you. Kept them under the counter. We used to play "army" with Cherry Bombs in the plowed over corn fields in the fall. I know I wasn't the only one wandering around not able to hear or see clearly after those episodes. Lucky we weren't hurt....
you forgot about the m200 aka quarter stick.
I worked with a kid who made his own M80. He made it stronger than usual and blew the men's room off it's foundation at the local high school. He was caught by the FBI.
Naw.... Best Fireworks come from Mexico
@eyefreely9682 lol yea, especially the Hammer Festival hammers XD, gotta be fun hammering 200 grams of explosives attached to the hammer
I am a "back in the day" (1960s) firecracker guy. There was the relatively tame Black Cats. The big boys were the cherry bomb, silver salute, and the M-80. We always figured the M-80 was a little more powerful than the other two. To properly compare them, especially in a video where the sound does not properly translate, you need to blow-up three identical model airplanes or cars to see which is most efficient and scatters the parts the farthest.
Yeah, your definitely from back in the 1960s, because that is EXACTLY what we used to do. While I was in military school in the 60s, one of the cadets lit a cherry bomb and flushed it down the toilet. Problem was, his room was directly over the mess hall and the thing went off and blew a hole the size of your fist in the pipe in the wall, and even blew a six inch hole in the wall. This of course started a minor flood in the mess hall and causing a great plumbing emergency to get the mess hall put back together before the nest meal. The dorm building was an old 1920s era hotel, so the administration blamed it on the age of the plumbing, and never knew the actual cause. GREAT TIMES ! ! !
güçlü
güzel
As a kid we always had a few cherry bombs, smoke bombs and regular firecrackers. For some reason we never bought m-80's. By far my favorite were always bottle rockets. Shot them out of electrical conduit like bazookas. Had wars with them. Great fun!
Pineapple 🍍
My dad was buying cherry bombs and M-80s by the gross when we passed back through the South to WI in the 60’s. He was WWII demolition. I still have a “bag full” of those CB/M80s - yup, fray the fuse tip, light and RUN!
Love the m80
I'll never forget when a neighbor kid said you could hold a firecracker in your hand, and not get hurt. He said the trick was that you just needed to hold it tightly. I guess he didn't hold it tight enough. His hand and fingers looked like hamburger meat.
Ashcans or M-80’s (???) RULE! ! !
Yup… that’s about right. The blockbusters were a bit bigger than the m-80’s. Thankfully my friends and I still have our fingers and hands intact
Someone get this man a lighter
@@paulb6304 And a cigar, jk, anyways gotta "match" the olden times when matches & punks were commonly used even though zippo lighters were available
When I was about 8 I found a cherry bomb and thought it was a smoke bomb. We don't have them in our state It came from a neighbor state. So I had it in my left hand and lit it, waiting for it to start to smoke before I threw it. Well you can guess what happened next, I still got my hand but spent the rest of the summer waiting for it to heal. Lost most of the meat in the palm.
@ShaneHammons Damn, that's scary
ahhhhh, the memories
Backin the day we got m-79 detonation simulators from my best friends dad marine corps buddy...to us they were just fireworks. Now you could get a Fed profile on you just for thinking about them.
M- 200's. 💪🇺🇸
Those M-80s were NO JOKE. We used to get real creative blowing up stuff in the early 70s with them. I seam to remember they were equivalent to an eighth stick of dynamite. How we were able to aquire them as kids I have no recollection, but amazingly I still have both my hands and all ten fingers!! 😆🤣🤣
Anyone remember something called a "Blockbuster"? It was 1/4 stick of dynamite.....huge and the dream of every kid in 1950's and 60's north Jersey.
Went to NY Chinatown back in 86 bought a gross of em which is 144 boy did we have fun
@@michaelzukowski5541 You bet! I had one with a fast fuse that almost took my hand off.
That's nothing you should see what an unopened can of pork and beans dose in a fire lol
@brianmaricle9646 Lmao! I could imagine that, looks like the can had too much beans
A few years ago I came across something that I'd never seen before. They resembled the M-80/silver salute but on a bigger scale measuring 1X2-inches. The body of the explosive was white with stripes and had a wick in the center. We placed one on the end of a 2x4 and it shredded the 2x4. We placed another along side of a wheelbarrow to deflect the detonation away from us and it punched a fist-sized hole right through it. These would definitely take your hand off if you weren't careful.
Cherry bomb flushed down the toilet was almost a right of passage in school.
I heard that the m80 was a 1/4 stick of dynamite, thus people loosing fingers, thus them being banned
@garypayne-tl1le yea, heard terrible stories of people blowing off their hands with one, luckily it wasn't a real quarter stick of nitroglycerin based dynamite, or they will be meeting Jesus shortly.
Back in the sixties we played with Torpedoes (rail road-signals), Cherry Bombs and M-80s. They all had as much power as the M-150
@robertcheslock9636 Ah yes, fun stuff indeed, too bad ppl misuse them and got them banned (millions of dollars in plumbing damage from flushed down M-80s, mailboxes being destroyed, and playing who could hold an M-80 etc the longest)
The good old days! Bought at the corner store and had a great time. Today in NJ you cant get the good stuff any more.
Go to Chinatown end of June you'll get all the good stuff u want lol
Not true M80 or Cherry Bomb of the 70's , I seen those things turn hands into hamburger........
When I was in seventh grade, I would make black powder with 65% potassium nitrate, 25% sulfur, and 10% powdered charcoal. Fuse was regular mailing chord, potassium nitrate, sugar, and water Another fun thing was making hydrogen by running an electric current through a light sulfuric acid solution. My parent rued the day that they bought me the chemistry set.
@@michaelperine2780 Fascinating, wish chemistry sets of the past were still around
Cherry bombs were, in fact, more powerful than the M-80s….at least those available in the 1960’s; take this from someone who almost loss 3 fingers from a CB in 1967.
@@russmoore167 Oof!
Silver Salutes were the thing where I grew up.
I've never seen a Flash Salute, but growing up in the 60s/70s, we had a lot of M-80s and thought they were the most powerful things around, but then I lit up my first cherry bomb on the backyard fence gate. When the smoke cleared, there was only the bottom half of the gate left, and a new king of boom was crowned.
@juno4494 Awesome! Never knew a cherry bomb could blow the top half of a fence gate off
If you flush a M-80🧨 down the toilet....⚡💥 ... believe me ...you will wish you never did that....🛑🙊 EXTREME DAMAGE 💥💦
From what I heard... the M80 is exactly a Quarter of a stick of Dynamite 🧨🤯 Or 4 - M80s equals One Stick of Dynamite 🧨💥
@user-dy5gy2rp6h flash powder is no comparison to high explosives such as dynamite, 3 grams of flash confined on a rocky road will maybe chuck loose rocks 5 ft without making a significant crater on the rocky road, while 3 grams of real nitroglycerin based 50% dynamite will easily blow a hole 4 1/2" wide and 3/4" deep on a rocky road and send rocks flying past 30 ft easily, I think they call M-80s quarter sticks of dynamite because it is loud like a small quarter stick of real dynamite, but it sounds a tad different from real dynamite and lacks the destructive power of high explosives
I miss M-80's. I ALSO miss Blockbusters... but I can see why they are banned. Waaah!
Growing up in northeast Los Angeles in the 60's & 70's we had an old Mexican ice cream truck man who also sold Mexican firecrackers but only if he knew you well. Some were triangular in shape and some were 3 inch M-80's and then there was the 6 inch long 1/2 stick of dynamite. They were grey and didn't have the waterproof fuses. We would drop them into pesky neighbors mail slots directly in to the house and disappear like ninja's into the darkness.🧨🧨
so 2.5 times stronger than consumer?
@XxfortprosYTxX2 probably more than 2.5x stronger than flash, from what I hear, standard Flash powder has around 2,000m/s det velocity while Etn has a det velocity of somewhere around 8,000m/s, making ETN 4x more powerful than standard Flash powder, ETN really likes to throw stuff around as I have figured out by detonating 0.55g of ETN under a medium sized rock on an empty rocky road, it sent surrounding rocks flying past 20 feet away from the detonation and left a small crater as wide as my palm (3 1/2 inch in diameter) that was at least 1/2" deep, the power was similar to what a 2-3 gram flash powder firecracker would have done, the rock which was sitting on top of the ETN was obliterated into smaller chunks which were sent flying 30 feet away from the road, 0.5 grams of flash would only launch the rock on top of it like 3 feet high and surrounding rocks would be sent like 5 inches away or not even budge
@jacobsrandomvideochannel4586 I was just judging by weight. I didn't know the exact composition of your flash powder
@XxfortprosYTxX2 The flash comp was just store bought firecracker flash, so its probably 7/3 perc/al
Beautiful. What did you use to set the ETN off ? TATP, HMTD, Silver Acetylide? I have made a bunch of that stuff. I have almost 100 grams of it thats a little over a year old. I should just blow a hole in something with it 😂 If you do a good job washing it it will last for years.
I initiated the ETN with some Rocket Candy, the etn was wrapped in foil then surrounded with another layer of foil but with Rocket Candy inside surrounding the foil containing the ETN, then a fuse was placed into the Rocket Candy and lastly, the foil is then crimped around the fuse. Also this etn was recrystallized twice
What did you use as a cap ?
@jordanhess2061 the ETN was initiated with the sheer heat of rocket candy with aluminum foil separating the ETN from the Rocket Candy hence "thermal shocked"
Oh nice !
Thanks!