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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: amertrac on May 24, 2013, 03:24:19 PM
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a 10 inch brass handled file fine grain and when held in the light the teeth gave a spiral effect. maybe for valve guides.
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The round spiral file is a standard pattern.
The copper handle looks like a recycled small gas bottle....
hmm
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When I was a kid, little metal bottles like that were all the rage for making your own rocket. You'd set up a device that punched a hole in the cap end, and it would take off. I think they were filled with carbon dioxide or something similar.
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Correct with CO2. The bottles had many uses. Seltzer water bottles, USN life jackets, BB pistols.
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When I was a kid, little metal bottles like that were all the rage for making your own rocket. You'd set up a device that punched a hole in the cap end, and it would take off. I think they were filled with carbon dioxide or something similar.
We made grenades out of them. Drilled out the cap with a 3/32 bit for the underwater cannon fuse, filled them with black powder and they made a great bang.
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Grenades ??
You would be labeled a terrorist these days. But that's OK ! Try making a mortar with steel pipe pounded into a fire pit and then drop in aerosol cans, great booms too. Schedule 80 if you can get it.