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Unread 09-14-2014, 10:10 PM   #11
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The best one, for the show of it, was a small oil can full of equal parts, IIRC, sugar and saltpeter, with contact wires to a broken flash bulb imbedded therein with its filament exposed, and the spout of crimped to hold the wires. The entire device disappeared, and some of the guys in the dining hall reported the entire woods lit up momentarily by the flash...
I read, way back when, in Playboy, that an acceptable version of napalm was 2/3 Duz dishwashing detergent and 1/3 gasoline, in a glass wine bottle, with a Tampon taped on the outside...A home made 'Molotov Cocktail'...Haven't had the urge to try it out yet...
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