We never used a marble, but we'd take a pipe with a cap on one end (kinda half a pipe-bomb). drill a hole in the cap so you could pass the firecracker's fuse thru it. Then you take two firecrackers and push the fuse of one into the end of the other. Then pass the free fuse thru the cap. Firing the first firecracker would propel the second firecracker and ignite it's fuse. With luck and practice you could get the 2nd firecracker to blow-up midair. We called them firecracker cannons.jmra wrote:We were too poor to buy any of those toys. We had to settle for building our own.
I'll never forget the marble guns. Galvanized pipe with an elbow, drill a hole in the top just big enough for a firecracker, roll a marble against the firecracker and tell your buddy to start running.
Those were the days. Of course I never did anything like that, it was the boys across the street. They were really bad.
Today. fireworks are only for professionals. Like this one...
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