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How to Make a Smoke Bomb

Resurrected from the Pretty Bored Archives, here is the ever popular article on how to make a smoke bomb by Wes Clark.

Alright, this isn’t really something that goes “BOOM!” but it’s still my favourite chemical mixture ever. Plus it works well for both military and ‘i want to be a pain in the ass’ uses. It’s the oldest Smoke Bomb Mixture ever.

Ingredients
Salt Peter (more on this later)
Icing Sugar

that’s it! You can add other shit too if you wish to, but this is the essential mixture. Firstly, Salt Peter is an over-the-counter drug like that new Prilosec O.T.C. shit they’re selling. You see, O.T.C. is a fancy acronym meaning, “Over the counter”. I know what you’re thinking - who gives a shit? Tell that to Prilosec.

That means you can buy it anywhere, problem is most of you anarchist retards are kids - and Salt Peter is sold at drug stores specifically for the purpose of making people lose their sex drive. That’s right, Salt Peter is the same crap your parents fed you as a child to stop you from masturbating so fucking much. Makes you feel really gross ; trust me.

So it might seem a little strange when you go in their to buy it and have to explain, “My parents told me to pick it up”. Just say it anyways, I always used to, and it’s hilarious to see them try not to smirk when they believe you’re buying it for yourself and you have no idea what you’re getting in to.

Also it’s more likely they’ll sell it to your geeky chronic masturbating ass if they think that’s what it’s for. Believe me.

Salt Peter is the main ingredient in Gun Powder. It’s highly flammable, but not explosive. It’s not easily ignited by sparks or pressure, but it is very easy to light on fire with a flame. That means it’s not too dangerous to work with on its own.

The next ingredient, Sugar - just burns really dirty. It gives off a thick white smoke, and the more fine your sugar is, the better it will smoke. E.g. Get icing sugar, although you could use any type of sugar you want.

Mix the two 1:1. If you’re going to mix in anything else, make sure you split that with the sugar. e.g. with Salt Peter, Sugar, Crushed Charcoal as an ingredient list - you would mix them respectively at 2:1:1. If that doesn’t make sense, you’re too young to be making smoke bombs. Charcoal gives off a black smoke that is harder to see through, but sugar and salt peter alone give off a smoke very close to CounterStrike’s animated army-smoke-bombs.

These bastards are great for paintball if you want to smoke someone out of a fort, direct their attention away from you (If they think you’re stupid enough to light up a smoke bomb where you are), to mark an area or to obfuscate the infamous prized ‘package’ you need to recover.

Word to the wise: One time I bought a small bottle of salt peter, mixed it 50:50 with icing sugar (giving me twice as much material) and managed to pack 4/5ths of all the crap I made back into the same bottle. Then I drilled a hole in the lid and stuck a small party-sparkler in there as a wick. this wasn’t a good idea ; the only escape for the hot gases was the tiny hole I drilled for the wick. This small bottle must have weighed about 7 pounds, and it shot off like a rocket.

Before you say, “AWESOME!” it wasn’t. It was really dangerous, and I was only stupid enough to do it once. If I had done it wrong it was very possible that I could have made a less-powerful than average pipe-bomb and lost my fucking face lighting it up.

Canister:

My recommendation is, if you want a smoke bomb that looks like a military canister do the following:

Use the bottle the salt peter came in, or for a real tough-steel canister use a pop-can or one of those middle-east juice cans with the super thick steel. You’ll have to cut your own top for it though and find a way to fasten it to the can (tape or solder will just burn away on ignition, but if that’s ok, go ahead)

Drill *many* holes in the top, with a fairly large drill bit (1/4 inch or so).

The best top on a plastic bottle would be if you were to drill almost the entire center out of the top, and put in a circular piece of metal with the holes drilled in to it. It’s more work, but the holes will not melt together on you causing a weird reaction.

Cut a circular piece of paper out to fit within the lid, and cover the holes from the inside once it’s screwed back on. Then when you pack in the salt-peter: sugar mixture you can pack it tight, but leave at least a 1/4 inch or 1/2 inch at the top of AIR. (AIR is very important for this to work, the mixture needs a lot of air to burn properly.

Then shove a party sparkler (the small ones) through the hole you drilled in the centre of the lid, through the paper, right into the smoke bomb mixture.

When you want to light it up, light the sparkler and you can throw it anywhere (except in water) since sparklers burn strong enough to not be put out by wind or bouncing off the ground.

WARNING: Don’t be a total moron and light this indoors either. The mixture burns very hot, and the plastic bottle will melt. If you find some sort of steel canister to place this in, it will turn red hot and no matter what it is in, extremely hot gases (enough to light hardwood floor on fire) will be coming out of the thing. If you want to burn this indoors you might as well just throw a Molotov cocktail at someones face, because you will hurt people and destroy the building.

If you decide to make your little smoke-bomb out of a plastic container, don’t inhale the smoke! You shouldn’t anyways, but be aware of just what you or your buddies will be inhaling. Burning plastic gives you hermaphrodite children, and that sucks.

I take zero responsibility for you making this, I’ve made them and I had fun with them ; but they require real intelligence to make and use safely. If you hurt yourself, you hurt yourself.

Posted: May 11th, 2008 under Anarchy.
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