@@0-MACMAC-0even if it’s a condition, you gotta look for all the positives in a negative thing! It’s cooler to be called the “forever young guy” instead of the “low testosterone guy” ngl
If those sparklers are the same as the ones I had as a kid in the 80s that later got banned, it's because you basically couldn't put them out after they lit. They would burn underwater and could even melt plastic underwater. I did that as a kid. I also heard they would burn through flesh and bone if they got stuck on you. I never did that but I did not question it after what I had done with them. The newer sparklers will extinguish pretty easily if you just get them damp. Same thing with smothering them. The old sparklers would just burn into and through anything you tried to smother them with, but the newer ones can be snuffed out pretty easily. Just dropping the newer ones too hard can put them out, but the older ones you could throw around and they would almost always stay lit. Those old sparklers were actually pretty dangerous but everyone just thought of them as the safe fireworks to give to kids.
The old sparklers were Thermite, a compound that the Germans developed for "Elektron" incendiary bombs near the end of WW1. They decided not to use them to destroy London or Paris, as they were about to lose the war and did not want to be tried for what might (?) have been considered a war crime. Instead, they kept this compound a secret that they could use in the next war (WW2). But before WW2, they were a little surprised when they learned that Americans were using it to make sparklers for their children to play with! Although the secret was out, these bombs were very hard to put out, and were extremely effective as incendiaries. 250 2kg (four-pound) "Elektron" bombs would set fire to many more buildings than one 500 kg conventional bomb. The Germans used them heavily in attacks on British cities, and the British and Americans quickly copied them.
All sparklers and fireworks will burn under water and cannot be extinguished. Even modern ones. They all rely on chemical oxidizers, so water will do nothing to stop them burning.
I really love fire works. First time last year. I had July 4th party at my home and my husband’s family and my small family all came. I used youtube to determine the best fireworks. I bought so many of the box fire works, sparklers for the boobies, and fire crackers for the boys. I made sure to get mostly ones you can connect, and my husband made a long platform. It was really fun. It last 20 minutes, and the finale box was incredible. Or cakes as they say. I probably spent too much. But it was really important to me, first time having home, in USA of my own, with veteran husband and immigrant family who loves Trump. Which I also got, the trump cakes with pictures of him looking like rambo on side. Independence day was first time I felt accomplished and lucky. I have only brothers sisters and parents. Small family. But my husband’s side was all there and friends. It was 10 times bigger than our wedding. Seeing peoples cars parked in front lawn. I never experienced such emotion and I still cant believe it.
Be the same as percussion caps and primers ... look like a lot of fun unfortunately they weren't around in my day 1970s... Did you Americans have Guy Fawkes night ? build a huge bonfire 10+ foot high , make a Guy Fawkes out of old work clothes straw , old gumboots and stand him on top, pour diesel fuel around the base then strike a match .. those were fun times as a kid. shopping bag full of crackers , sky rockets , jumping jacks etc !
The silver sparklers do something amazing if you wrap a bundle of them real tight with electrical tape. Have one sticking our farther to act as a fuze. You were right about them being able to burn (alot) faster than the iron ones. Infact when wrapped tight like I mentioned they explode.
I know he's smart enough to take precautions so as to not destroy his own property/risk his own health, but all I can think of when I see those is "Hope you aren't on well water".
-I think- he said he's planning to make an even bigger array of batteries compared to the previous one. I read it somewhere on a comment section EDIT: just found it! It's a reply to a donation "thanks! i'm actually planning on adding many more car batteries to the bank and doing an even crazier vid :D" I can't wait!
Scare up some info on 'Railroad torpedoes'...they featured a metal strap to hold them on the rail. They were intended to signal the driver of problems ahead...had to be clearly audible over the sound of a locomotive.
They still use torpedoes in some places; I saw some on the tracks at the elevated Belmont station in Chicago. They're apparently obsolete in most places because locomotives are soundproof, but the CTA rolling stock very much isn't that.
Yea that's what was done before the dumb people who couldn't look after themselves got a pass and ruined the gene pool. Darwin awards had legit use lol
To be fair, there wasn't a metal shell around them meant to fragment into hundreds of metal shrapnel. They had the impact going on for sure though lmao
@@randomhero123not all grenades are frag grenades and when they are literally touching your body the lack of fragmentation might not change the results all that much.
7:20 "I don't know exactly why these are banned" most professional pyrotechnics channel ever. Silver sparklers aren't *immediately* bad, just dont inhale their toxic gasses.
Me and my friends used to buy the tiny paper ones, cut them open, wrap the contents into a paper towel and make a giant one. The result was basically this but even sketchier.
I used to do that, too, but there was like a 50% change that it would go off while I was collecting the contents... Once I wanted to try making a canon out of them, but even pouring the contents into the canon would set them off...
@@oasntetReally? When I tried unbundling and combining 2 or 3, I usually couldn’t get the contents to go off at all. What was I doing wrong? Or maybe it was a different formulation?
We would wrap 50-200 sparklers in duct tape and leave one sticking up in the middle to be the fuse. It didn't always work but more often than not we'd get a loud bang and explosion of sparkles, we called them sparkler bombs.
Stuff like that gets grandfathered, so you can't make and sell new ones on the open market anymore, but existing stuff which people have is allowed to be kept. Not always how this kind of thing gets handled though, with stuff like actual dynamite they don't let you keep it just because it's old and before regulation (and dynamite has an expiration date, where it'll start getting dangerous and unstable eventually, so you CAN'T just keep it).
@@Killbayne Completely true, the firearm can be transfered after an ATF Form 4 is completed. You must also submit a picture and fingerprints if the buyer is not an FFL/SOT. But if you are a criminal no worries.
>hits an explosive with the blunt end of an axe >points the sharp end at his face "how did this man die from an axe in the face when he was clearly holding it?" "that's the mystery sarge"
I've heard of these torpedoes since I was a kid some 60 years ago, but never seen one. Thanks very much for posting this, I've waited so long to see them.
And these are not even the most powerful the Globe Torpedoes cherry sized silver fuseles ball ones is the best or Cherry Torpedoes ,What you see in the video is Tube torpedo from New Jersey Fireworks ..
Wouldn't it be weird if missing limbs or missing digits were passed on to the next generation? After enough generations, a family bloodline would become just head and torso
The reason the sparklers were banned, which in many places were unbanned, is because you can wrap many of them in tape, like electrical tape, and by increasing the pressure, make a shitty IED.
oh yeah I remember doing this with some people in the neighborhood when I was a kid. damn thing ruptured one end and jetted under a car before blowing up. terrifying, but not that powerful. the old titanium ones would set clothes on fire too though, a cousin got hurt pretty bad once
@draxthedarkreaper That could be a reason, but why is this Tannerite allowed in the USA?? It is much better suited for an IED. (ammonium nitrate+al) But you have to ignite it initially.
Crafting kabooms is easy, but it's also really dangerous if you don't properly know what you're doing, so I get why all kinds of platforms and sites are wary of all kinds of liabilities when it comes to hosting info or demonstrations about making it.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine it all depends on what order of results you are trying to achieve. Most of it is down to acceptable equipment and common sense coupled with a basic understanding of chemistry.......and static discharge
7:07 the reason why they were banned was mostly because they have a steel wire at the core that gets extremely hot and can stay hot so there were people burned or fires started by improperly disposed hot wires. Edit: I live in the US, and to be fair I have not bought fireworks in the last 5 years.
I don't know if this is why they were banned and then allowed to come back later, but you used to be able to tape a few boxes together and it would supposedly go off like a quarter stick of dynamite. Unfortunately I've only been able to play with the modern versions which aren't explosive
3:08 Fun Fact: When you see double trees like that it's usually a forgotten Squirrel/Rat stash. It's much more likely than a pair of stray acorns surviving long enough to both germinate without being buried by something.
I'm now imagining some stealth game adding these as throwable distractions - it sounds like a gunshot came from wherever you chucked it, drawing the attention of guards over there and hopefully away from your location
My grandfather told me that my home-made tazer is trash cause when he was a kid, they had no current limiting features and if its not "turning your arm off" - its not fun They were made different
"One terrifying fact about these things is that many of them were just filled with Arsenic in the form of Realgar or AsS" Never thought I would ever be terrified of ass in my firework
5:46 We had cube-shaped ones (called throw downs for obvious reasons) when I was a kid in Sydney, Australia in the late 70s. But all fireworks were banned in the early 80s because Californian wildfires are just kindergarten versions of Australian bushfires.
@@gorak9000 Filing this one under the "that's bad...................but maaaaaaaaybee....." category. Also, I'm completely convinced that everything aside from the oxygen in Australia tries to kill you all the time.
Don't need fireworks to start bushfires. Enough idiot smokers tossing their spent ciggie out the car windows to do that for us. Australia just bans anything thats fun.
4:26 Importing Eucalyptus trees has been an ecological disaster for California... Meanwhile here in the South letting Kudzu grow without any from of intervention after WW2 has been a different level of disaster... At least we don't catch FIRE every few weeks, sure the stuffs spreading a fast and it would be great if we could deal with it but I'd like it if we could find a use for the stuff instead of just eradicating it... I've grown quite fond of the little piece of Japan that's taken root here.
It's edible, the flowers can be used to make an aromatic jelly or syrup, the young leaves can be fried into chips and the roots can be processed into a type of tofu that is rather expensive in Japan.
all I can imagine is like 3 delinquents on bikes riding around a neighborhood with pockets full of those firecrackers and throwing them at people's shit
In 19th century Europe, such things were sold to cyclists as ‘dog defence hand grenades’. This was due to the fact that industrialisation suddenly made reliable bicycles affordable for normal people and they were now being ridden on European roads en masse. Particularly in France, the country of cyclists, there were constant clashes with dogs in the countryside, who were completely overwhelmed by the new means of human transport. In addition to these ‘giant bangers’, special revolvers for cyclists and even a special cartridge, the ‘5.7 mm Velo dog’, were also developed
In the 80s there was a particular firework (banger) that we'd buy singly. I think it was called a thunderclap or something. It consisted of an initial bang that projected a lump of cement high into the air which then produced a much louder secondary explosion and flash. One kid discovered that putting a glass milk bottle on top of them would result in one of two effects - the bottle blew up with the first bang or, terrifyingly, it would be carried dozens of feet into the air where it then shattered into glass rain. I quickly decided I'd rather stay inside over the Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes) period. 😅
@testname4464 The laws here are much, much stricter now than they were. You can't even buy bangers anymore as all fireworks have to have a display element. Even the loudness of the bang is controlled. That said, some places in the US are extremely strict from what I'm told so I'm sure they are tougher than England!
I got some old Chinese fireworks from my German Opa many many years ago when he was alive. Broke em and made soup can and coffee tin fun things and got yelled at my by Oma for damaging some plant. Love the channel!
if you take a small firecracker and put it with some paper, and hit it with a hammer, it can start the paper on fire. I know this because I learned it when I was a kid. When I didn't have matches or a lighter to set off the firecrackers. I used a hammer.
I hope all the health issues that you had are gone I really like your videos and thank you for sharing the Vintage fireworks good health to you thank you
They still make these but slightly smaller. Basically look like a black cat firecracker without a fuse. I always buy a case of them from the indian reservation around the 4th of july.
"My granpa's trinkets" Trinket: Anhydrous ammonia Dear God... One man's trinkets are another man's means to wipe out a small town with just a few gallons of water.
I've never winced so hard before, watching you sling slot those fuse-less fireworks, my god if you hit the side of the sling shot, just rip your hands!
Torpedoes are still made. They are used in emergency situations to alert train crews to danger ahead. I am not certain on 1st world countries but in 2nd & 3rd world countries like India and countries in Africa and Mexico, they are definitely still used to alert train crews. If some danger is present on the rails, a stalled/stuck vehicle vehicle, or blocked/broken rail, etc., then a designated person will take some Torpedoes far up-rail from the danger and place them on the rail at interval to alert the crew to stop. They will need as much reaction and stopping distance as possible so they need to be set at a minimum distance.
When I was like 8 or 9, I burned the shit out of my thumb with one of those sparklers. I found them and some other fireworks along with a lighter in my backyard the day after the 4th. My uncle had brought a bunch of awesome fireworks to a family get together. Myself my brother and a few cousins basically combed the yard and field behind my house looking for leftover fireworks. I remember the sparklers being hard to light. My cousin was holding the ends of a couple sparklers. I had a lighter in one hand my other hand was cupped around the flame trying to get the ends of the sparklers to light. When suddenly woosh...the sparklers flamed up with a white hot flame and a splash of molten metal. My thumb took the worst of it. A chunk of skin was gone. Some of the flesh had been charred black. My thumb prints wear seared and crispy.
We made similar smoke bombs. We would cut the heads off strike anywhere matches. Then put between 2 metal Coke bottle caps and tape together tightly. Throwing down on a hard surface would create tons of fire and smoke. Also could put the match heads inside aluminum foil with a few rocks. But had to be careful because squeezing it into a ball could set it off.
I used to do similar but it was a penny wrapped really tight in paper capgun caps then a layer of tape. Throw it at the floor and they all go off at once lol
You can make so called 'Armstrong's mixture" with safety-match heads and the red striking material, similar but unrefined version of the kind used in cap gun caps
One thing, you should make sure those car batteries are fully charged and/or bring them inside so they avoid freezing temperatures. If they don't have a high enough voltage in them when winter hits then the water and acid will separate some and it'll freeze causing ice to bulge the batteries and bust up the lead plates inside.
I've been watching Styro for like 15+ some odd years and only recently realized he grew up an hour or so from me. Glad our paths never crossed, I was getting into enough trouble for having fun as it was.
Those fuseless fireworks are just a smaller version of what the railroads use when a train is stranded on the rails a conductor will walk a mile or two down the track and strap a torpedo to the rails to warn approaching trains to stop
3:33 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! that is sooooooooooooooo dangerous. never ever point the axe blade up especially if u gonna hit something that has potential to kick it back like EXPLOSIVES!
That one just had me scream inside. Even though the actual explosive force of these isn't that much, uh. Well, any kind of hammer or axe bounce back isn't great, nevermind when the blade is directed right back at you...
You can still get impact sensitive firecrackers, they are just limited to 0.05g of flash powder. I had one in my pocket once, sat down at the dinner table, and BOOM
In the mid 80’s my brother and I were waiting for our stepdad to come in from being out at sea for months. (Navy). We took two boxes of the snap pops and made one big one. We emptied them all out into a baggie. It made a big difference.
The railroad used torpedoes as signals on the tracks - a train would run over one of them, and the 'bang' would let them know another train is ahead, or whatever....
I grew up firework starved in 50s-60s CA except for "Safe and Sane" ones: Oooo, a fountain, snakes, and sparklers; not even fire crackers. I finally got my hands on the holy grail: a single M-80. To quote Henry Ford II "I had no idea" Every housewife on both sides of the block came out of their house wondering WTF. I played innocent
As far as I know, the old sparklers were banned because of badly burned children's feet due to the steel wire handles thrown on the ground after use. Damned things were almost molten, and would stay hot for a long time.
I've watched your channel for years, you have both inspired me and taught me so much, even though I'm old haha. I can see you have your grandfather's adventurous side and it was great to see you have the same fun with these thing that he once did. I am sure he is proud of you mate. Thanks for everything you do and don't stop.
You can get very close to the original by just lighting 3-4 at the same time. Careful, the more you light right next to each other the faster they burn. 30-40 of them makes for a flare bright enough to light up the entire backyard. 200-300 will light up a small valley for a half second. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
@@testname4464 Reminder that they are BOILING METAL HOT. So if you plan on doing this, make sure the blast radius accounts for flying 2000c liquid metal. So...keep that in mind.
"styropyro launches impact grenades out of a slingshot" is about what i expected i'm not gonna lie
Right!? I know it's not the same Δᵥ as impacting a solid wall, but I would still be too scared to try it haha.
@@Kwauhn.Isosceles triangle???
@@ragmanv420 Uppercase delta, lol
@@ragmanv420Δv means acceleration
@@Kwauhn. But why a subscript v?
2009: Throws one and misses
2024: Throws one and misses
Some things never change
including his looks of youthness!
@@guilhermealveslopesyou must not have watched that video…
@@0-MACMAC-0?
@@sinisterthoughts2896 it’s about an condition he has with his testosterone, but basically he’ll look young for a long time
@@0-MACMAC-0even if it’s a condition, you gotta look for all the positives in a negative thing! It’s cooler to be called the “forever young guy” instead of the “low testosterone guy” ngl
“How did they die?”
“Oh, they died from breathing in too much AsS.”
[Pootis Engage Heavy voice] DOCTOR! I HAVE INHALED THE AsS!
In the angry video game nerd voice.
Lmao
"It smells like AsS in here"
That's the manliest death both ways
If those sparklers are the same as the ones I had as a kid in the 80s that later got banned, it's because you basically couldn't put them out after they lit. They would burn underwater and could even melt plastic underwater. I did that as a kid. I also heard they would burn through flesh and bone if they got stuck on you. I never did that but I did not question it after what I had done with them. The newer sparklers will extinguish pretty easily if you just get them damp.
Same thing with smothering them. The old sparklers would just burn into and through anything you tried to smother them with, but the newer ones can be snuffed out pretty easily. Just dropping the newer ones too hard can put them out, but the older ones you could throw around and they would almost always stay lit.
Those old sparklers were actually pretty dangerous but everyone just thought of them as the safe fireworks to give to kids.
Because of their brightness and how difficult they were to extinguish, they probably had magnesium in them.
The old sparklers were Thermite, a compound that the Germans developed for "Elektron" incendiary bombs near the end of WW1. They decided not to use them to destroy London or Paris, as they were about to lose the war and did not want to be tried for what might (?) have been considered a war crime. Instead, they kept this compound a secret that they could use in the next war (WW2). But before WW2, they were a little surprised when they learned that Americans were using it to make sparklers for their children to play with! Although the secret was out, these bombs were very hard to put out, and were extremely effective as incendiaries. 250 2kg (four-pound) "Elektron" bombs would set fire to many more buildings than one 500 kg conventional bomb. The Germans used them heavily in attacks on British cities, and the British and Americans quickly copied them.
They look like they were probably responsible for some house fires too
All sparklers and fireworks will burn under water and cannot be extinguished. Even modern ones. They all rely on chemical oxidizers, so water will do nothing to stop them burning.
@@BrianRIngramnah he said it was titanium which also burns hot and similarly to magnesium
8:57 Some things never change
😂
8:59 he looks the same also
I really love fire works. First time last year. I had July 4th party at my home and my husband’s family and my small family all came. I used youtube to determine the best fireworks. I bought so many of the box fire works, sparklers for the boobies, and fire crackers for the boys. I made sure to get mostly ones you can connect, and my husband made a long platform. It was really fun. It last 20 minutes, and the finale box was incredible. Or cakes as they say. I probably spent too much. But it was really important to me, first time having home, in USA of my own, with veteran husband and immigrant family who loves Trump. Which I also got, the trump cakes with pictures of him looking like rambo on side. Independence day was first time I felt accomplished and lucky. I have only brothers sisters and parents. Small family. But my husband’s side was all there and friends. It was 10 times bigger than our wedding. Seeing peoples cars parked in front lawn. I never experienced such emotion and I still cant believe it.
And thus began the war with the trees.
Fire comment
Then the Styro nation attacked.
Don't be hasty
You realize the tree-ent's are watching you now right?
Aqua Teen Hunger Force reference?
Pyro hasnt aged a day since his teenage
Right?!
Bro has a literal integer overflow on his T levels
thats exactly what i was thinking!! How does he look and sound the same??
The Age of Styropyro
still missed his throws too lol
I love 9 and a half minute long shorts
I mean, compared to his 30 minute long adventures of madness on his main Channel, this is pretty tame and short
Yeah this is garbage. ‘Sportball was never my thing teehee’
Thumbs down and block. Dude is annoying AF and way too long
@@tyson9419 Who hurt you.
shorts suck when you want long form content from guys like styro
@tbounds4812 yeah I have nothing against long videos, I just found it funny that this is a thing that's clearly not what the name of the channel says
Torpedo formula in these was Antimony trisulfide/potassium chlorate with a small amount of tiny gravel for friction activation.
Yes Special these are Safety Torpedoes or the market call it in 1940 Tube Torpedoes ..
Be the same as percussion caps and primers ... look like a lot of fun unfortunately they weren't around in my day 1970s...
Did you Americans have Guy Fawkes night ? build a huge bonfire 10+ foot high , make a Guy Fawkes out of old work clothes straw , old gumboots and stand him on top, pour diesel fuel around the base then strike a match .. those were fun times as a kid. shopping bag full of crackers , sky rockets , jumping jacks etc !
@@sheepsfoot2no Guy Fawkes night in Canada. We also cannot have fireworks like the states, the ones we get are very tame
@@600wheel Its been like that here since about 1980 i guess my generation were lucky to have them as a kid before they were banned.
The silver sparklers do something amazing if you wrap a bundle of them real tight with electrical tape. Have one sticking our farther to act as a fuze. You were right about them being able to burn (alot) faster than the iron ones. Infact when wrapped tight like I mentioned they explode.
I love the mountain of car batteries in the background.
I know he's smart enough to take precautions so as to not destroy his own property/risk his own health, but all I can think of when I see those is "Hope you aren't on well water".
thats from one of his other videos
-I think- he said he's planning to make an even bigger array of batteries compared to the previous one. I read it somewhere on a comment section
EDIT: just found it! It's a reply to a donation
"thanks! i'm actually planning on adding many more car batteries to the bank and doing an even crazier vid :D"
I can't wait!
I hope he finds a nice ocean to dispose of those batteries
so nice of him to get them all out of the lake
Scare up some info on 'Railroad torpedoes'...they featured a metal strap to hold them on the rail.
They were intended to signal the driver of problems ahead...had to be clearly audible over the sound of a locomotive.
I learned what those were from the chemical formulary books! I'd love to make some lol
They are impact sensitive HE
never set off a whole railroad torpedo but a pea sized piece was enough to make my ears ring for a while
@@styropyroshortschemical formulary part 5?
They still use torpedoes in some places; I saw some on the tracks at the elevated Belmont station in Chicago. They're apparently obsolete in most places because locomotives are soundproof, but the CTA rolling stock very much isn't that.
They rode bikes with impact grenades in their pockets???
Still do in México
Yea that's what was done before the dumb people who couldn't look after themselves got a pass and ruined the gene pool.
Darwin awards had legit use lol
Imagine stacking it and losing a leg instead of just scraping a knee lmao
To be fair, there wasn't a metal shell around them meant to fragment into hundreds of metal shrapnel. They had the impact going on for sure though lmao
@@randomhero123not all grenades are frag grenades and when they are literally touching your body the lack of fragmentation might not change the results all that much.
Hitting an explodey thing with an axe while having the blade facing up had me worried for a moment.
7:20 "I don't know exactly why these are banned" most professional pyrotechnics channel ever.
Silver sparklers aren't *immediately* bad, just dont inhale their toxic gasses.
When he turns 80, he's probably gonna look the same.
Just minus a couple of fingers, maybe an eye….
I think, judging by the hair and love to chemistry, he's going to turn into a more explosive version of Doctor Poliakoff from periodic videos :D
@@Oldtanktapper The eye would be a cybernetic one that shoots lasers. I know it, You know it, We all know it!
@@aziouss2863 A cybernetic eye with a camera and two lasers (one for pointing, one for cutting), which he designed and constructed by himself.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine a death star as a cybewrnetic eye, he engineeer up the model cause it was too weak.
Me and my friends used to buy the tiny paper ones, cut them open, wrap the contents into a paper towel and make a giant one. The result was basically this but even sketchier.
just use the plastic baggy they came in instead of the paper towel
I might have to try this
I used to do that, too, but there was like a 50% change that it would go off while I was collecting the contents... Once I wanted to try making a canon out of them, but even pouring the contents into the canon would set them off...
@@oasntetReally? When I tried unbundling and combining 2 or 3, I usually couldn’t get the contents to go off at all. What was I doing wrong? Or maybe it was a different formulation?
We would wrap 50-200 sparklers in duct tape and leave one sticking up in the middle to be the fuse. It didn't always work but more often than not we'd get a loud bang and explosion of sparkles, we called them sparkler bombs.
Fuckin inherited ancient illegal explosives I can’t bro
Stuff like that gets grandfathered, so you can't make and sell new ones on the open market anymore, but existing stuff which people have is allowed to be kept.
Not always how this kind of thing gets handled though, with stuff like actual dynamite they don't let you keep it just because it's old and before regulation (and dynamite has an expiration date, where it'll start getting dangerous and unstable eventually, so you CAN'T just keep it).
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine kinda like how you can legally buy a machine gun without special permits if the gun was made before the 1986 machine gun ban
@@Killbayne Completely true, the firearm can be transfered after an ATF Form 4 is completed. You must also submit a picture and fingerprints if the buyer is not an FFL/SOT. But if you are a criminal no worries.
>hits an explosive with the blunt end of an axe
>points the sharp end at his face
"how did this man die from an axe in the face when he was clearly holding it?"
"that's the mystery sarge"
I've heard of these torpedoes since I was a kid some 60 years ago, but never seen one.
Thanks very much for posting this, I've waited so long to see them.
And these are not even the most powerful the Globe Torpedoes cherry sized silver fuseles ball ones is the best or Cherry Torpedoes ,What you see in the video is Tube torpedo from New Jersey Fireworks ..
Good job Grandpa didnt fall of his bike with those in his pocket we might not have a styropyro to enjoy
That risk is the way we liked it ... until emergency room physicians got everything banned. It did weed out the dumb though.
Old fireworks were objectively more fun.
Wouldn't it be weird if missing limbs or missing digits were passed on to the next generation? After enough generations, a family bloodline would become just head and torso
If you did that and survived, it clearly didn't weed out the dumb
It isnt a styropyro video unless you can see a jerry can, a microwave, and fireworks all in one shot.
You forgot the car batteries 😂
Inheriting dangerous chemicals... seems to be a common theme with you and Dr & fire
Dr & fire?
Explosions&fire?
@JosGeerink yeah. Oblique reference to the fact that he has a ohd and called nilered Mr red lol.
Runs in the family I guess.
@@Speensinc He finished his dissertation defense? Congrats are in order.
8:00 one is a sparkler while the other is almost a road flair
Some of them have strontium chloride the active ingredient in road flares that makes them burn that bright red hugh
Sparklers all strapped together, burning very hot (making lots of gas quickly)... that expands rapidly...in a confined space perhaps
This… this is why there were banned! Easy access pipe bomb
The reason the sparklers were banned, which in many places were unbanned, is because you can wrap many of them in tape, like electrical tape, and by increasing the pressure, make a shitty IED.
Thanks
oh yeah I remember doing this with some people in the neighborhood when I was a kid. damn thing ruptured one end and jetted under a car before blowing up. terrifying, but not that powerful.
the old titanium ones would set clothes on fire too though, a cousin got hurt pretty bad once
they make good thermite starters
@draxthedarkreaper
That could be a reason, but
why is this Tannerite allowed in the USA??
It is much better suited for an IED. (ammonium nitrate+al)
But you have to ignite it initially.
@@Beutelwolf_1987
Because of what it takes to detonate.
“Now, I could make some bombs and it would actually be really easy, but I don’t think I can show that here”
Well yea. It is.
And he shouldn't lol
@@scrappydoo7887tbf I just wanna see it go off.
Crafting kabooms is easy, but it's also really dangerous if you don't properly know what you're doing, so I get why all kinds of platforms and sites are wary of all kinds of liabilities when it comes to hosting info or demonstrations about making it.
@0neDoomedSpaceMarine it all depends on what order of results you are trying to achieve.
Most of it is down to acceptable equipment and common sense coupled with a basic understanding of chemistry.......and static discharge
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Deal with the static or fly to the attic. 💀
4:07 not beating the mad scientist allegations...
Honestly I don't think he wants to
Sport ball
He's the fun kind of mad scientist.
hououin kyouma
Lol
those gray sparklers are notoriously hard to ignite in my family, which is why we use the ones with paper on them to start the reaction.
A child lining its pockets with shock sensitive explosives and then riding a bike sounds like a recipe for a blown off leg.
7:07 the reason why they were banned was mostly because they have a steel wire at the core that gets extremely hot and can stay hot so there were people burned or fires started by improperly disposed hot wires.
Edit: I live in the US, and to be fair I have not bought fireworks in the last 5 years.
Modern sparklers still have a wire, at least here in Australia
@@GrubbyPaddler yeah we have em here
I remember I grabbed one once after it went out, was not a fun scar to get in my palm
I don't know if this is why they were banned and then allowed to come back later, but you used to be able to tape a few boxes together and it would supposedly go off like a quarter stick of dynamite. Unfortunately I've only been able to play with the modern versions which aren't explosive
you aren’t a missing out on fireworks now. they’re almost all garbage. plus they’re all the same
3:08 Fun Fact:
When you see double trees like that it's usually a forgotten Squirrel/Rat stash.
It's much more likely than a pair of stray acorns surviving long enough to both germinate without being buried by something.
it could also be when the tree was younger it got cut down/broken and suckered forming two stems
More likely is the top dying for a tree with weak apical domibance
2:50 There is a snake in the backround
I thought you were trolling
Lol holy crap i found it! Thought that was gonna take way longer to find
Right and middle of view, crawling through leaves. Good sized fella
@@VapidVulpesWhere snake
snake = light shining thru canopy
Pyro has some insane bodybuilding potential, bros forearms are massive
They actually make the first firework you show but smaller. They're literally called adult snappers and are as loud as a firecracker.
I'm now imagining some stealth game adding these as throwable distractions - it sounds like a gunshot came from wherever you chucked it, drawing the attention of guards over there and hopefully away from your location
My grandfather told me that my home-made tazer is trash cause when he was a kid, they had no current limiting features and if its not "turning your arm off" - its not fun
They were made different
8:29 to be fair the iron one was ignited a couple seconds after the silver one, they lasted almost exactly the same amount of time
I've been watching you for years and I've never seen you laugh this much or have this much fun. Great video.
5:26 Shoots projectile at base, fails to ignite gasoline on top. Says "Nope!"
Ikr I saw that too, he totally missed😂
Hope if he’s ever had sex, he doesn’t have the same technique
kinda like gasoline is a liquid and it dripped on the side and the base too
@michaelrose93… gasoline vapors are heavier than air and very volatile, the area was probably saturated with fumes. I say “nope” or dope to you.
The vapor is still volatile
4:06 the transition into gasoline.. i love this channel
5:53
"One terrifying fact about these things is that many of them were just filled with Arsenic in the form of Realgar or AsS"
Never thought I would ever be terrified of ass in my firework
5:46 We had cube-shaped ones (called throw downs for obvious reasons) when I was a kid in Sydney, Australia in the late 70s. But all fireworks were banned in the early 80s because Californian wildfires are just kindergarten versions of Australian bushfires.
Well, that's why you have so many big fires - no small fires started by fireworks to burn off the underbrush once in a while!
@@gorak9000 Filing this one under the "that's bad...................but maaaaaaaaybee....." category.
Also, I'm completely convinced that everything aside from the oxygen in Australia tries to kill you all the time.
Don't need fireworks to start bushfires. Enough idiot smokers tossing their spent ciggie out the car windows to do that for us. Australia just bans anything thats fun.
@@AsmodeusMictian I mean, fire needs oxygen to burn, so maybe it's still out to get you too.
*launches grenade*
*Misses*
"Tee hee hee"
"banned" brother i just bought boxes of 200 to use as impact fuses.
I got to the silver sparkler part and as soon as it lit I got an ad…. IT MADE IT LOOK LIKE IT BLEW UP IN HIS FACE.
You look exactly like you did 15 years ago lol
4:26 Importing Eucalyptus trees has been an ecological disaster for California... Meanwhile here in the South letting Kudzu grow without any from of intervention after WW2 has been a different level of disaster... At least we don't catch FIRE every few weeks, sure the stuffs spreading a fast and it would be great if we could deal with it but I'd like it if we could find a use for the stuff instead of just eradicating it... I've grown quite fond of the little piece of Japan that's taken root here.
Especially when they flower. It smells so good.
It's edible, the flowers can be used to make an aromatic jelly or syrup, the young leaves can be fried into chips and the roots can be processed into a type of tofu that is rather expensive in Japan.
Just import koalas into California. A LOT 😏
5:00 casually tossing explosives at gasoline next to 100 car batteries... Love it!
all I can imagine is like 3 delinquents on bikes riding around a neighborhood with pockets full of those firecrackers and throwing them at people's shit
In 19th century Europe, such things were sold to cyclists as ‘dog defence hand grenades’. This was due to the fact that industrialisation suddenly made reliable bicycles affordable for normal people and they were now being ridden on European roads en masse. Particularly in France, the country of cyclists, there were constant clashes with dogs in the countryside, who were completely overwhelmed by the new means of human transport. In addition to these ‘giant bangers’, special revolvers for cyclists and even a special cartridge, the ‘5.7 mm Velo dog’, were also developed
In the 80s there was a particular firework (banger) that we'd buy singly. I think it was called a thunderclap or something. It consisted of an initial bang that projected a lump of cement high into the air which then produced a much louder secondary explosion and flash. One kid discovered that putting a glass milk bottle on top of them would result in one of two effects - the bottle blew up with the first bang or, terrifyingly, it would be carried dozens of feet into the air where it then shattered into glass rain. I quickly decided I'd rather stay inside over the Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes) period. 😅
Insane how England has less strict Fireworks laws than some American states
@testname4464 The laws here are much, much stricter now than they were. You can't even buy bangers anymore as all fireworks have to have a display element. Even the loudness of the bang is controlled. That said, some places in the US are extremely strict from what I'm told so I'm sure they are tougher than England!
Air bomb repeater?
@Cornz38 Nope, it was a single ground pop then a loud single air pop. It had a red spike on the bottom and definitely began with a 't'. 😁
@@GothBoyUK the red spikes were a "Standard" fireworks trademark..
I got some old Chinese fireworks from my German Opa many many years ago when he was alive. Broke em and made soup can and coffee tin fun things and got yelled at my by Oma for damaging some plant.
Love the channel!
"Fun things" ah yes
I can't imagine trucks loaded with those going down the road.
Now imagine a rail car full of them. Yeah, there were accidents.
@@r.awilliams9815 "there are no accidents" 😂
the FEDEX and UPS drivers of yesteryear only ever abused a parcel ONCE.
3:33 axe head flys back...
That's what I was concerned about
Yeah I assumed there was no way one of these would have enough force to throw an axe head, but my knee jerk reaction was still "PYRO NO"
when styro says something is sketchy i think it's extremely dangerous
9:18 TROGDOR!?!
He was a dragon man
Burnin-nating Da Peasants!
or maybe he was just a dragon
😂 that took me back
TROGDOR THE BURNINATOR!
When someone asks me what my type is:
Gotta love Science Twunks
@@ETG168 ITS TRUE
Hi 👉 👈
so true
You have pronouns in your name and look about 14.
No. Just no
2:36 "I don't know if this is a good idea." -- if StyroPyro is saying THIS, it's not a good idea!
if you take a small firecracker and put it with some paper, and hit it with a hammer, it can start the paper on fire. I know this because I learned it when I was a kid. When I didn't have matches or a lighter to set off the firecrackers. I used a hammer.
glad to see drake is still alive
I hope all the health issues that you had are gone I really like your videos and thank you for sharing the Vintage fireworks good health to you thank you
Thats so funny to see you from 10 years ago. My man does not age
15, actually
Bro's immortal
@@Flesh_Wizard how else does he survive all this
They still make these but slightly smaller. Basically look like a black cat firecracker without a fuse. I always buy a case of them from the indian reservation around the 4th of july.
"My granpa's trinkets"
Trinket: Anhydrous ammonia
Dear God... One man's trinkets are another man's means to wipe out a small town with just a few gallons of water.
Hell yhea keep up the great content man!
I've never winced so hard before, watching you sling slot those fuse-less fireworks, my god if you hit the side of the sling shot, just rip your hands!
8:19 "the old ones are clearly a lot more fun" sir, you have a very suspicious definition of fun, lmao
Torpedoes are still made. They are used in emergency situations to alert train crews to danger ahead. I am not certain on 1st world countries but in 2nd & 3rd world countries like India and countries in Africa and Mexico, they are definitely still used to alert train crews. If some danger is present on the rails, a stalled/stuck vehicle vehicle, or blocked/broken rail, etc., then a designated person will take some Torpedoes far up-rail from the danger and place them on the rail at interval to alert the crew to stop. They will need as much reaction and stopping distance as possible so they need to be set at a minimum distance.
When I was like 8 or 9, I burned the shit out of my thumb with one of those sparklers. I found them and some other fireworks along with a lighter in my backyard the day after the 4th. My uncle had brought a bunch of awesome fireworks to a family get together. Myself my brother and a few cousins basically combed the yard and field behind my house looking for leftover fireworks. I remember the sparklers being hard to light. My cousin was holding the ends of a couple sparklers. I had a lighter in one hand my other hand was cupped around the flame trying to get the ends of the sparklers to light. When suddenly woosh...the sparklers flamed up with a white hot flame and a splash of molten metal. My thumb took the worst of it. A chunk of skin was gone. Some of the flesh had been charred black. My thumb prints wear seared and crispy.
your channel is the best
We made similar smoke bombs. We would cut the heads off strike anywhere matches. Then put between 2 metal Coke bottle caps and tape together tightly. Throwing down on a hard surface would create tons of fire and smoke. Also could put the match heads inside aluminum foil with a few rocks. But had to be careful because squeezing it into a ball could set it off.
I used to do similar but it was a penny wrapped really tight in paper capgun caps then a layer of tape.
Throw it at the floor and they all go off at once lol
You can make so called 'Armstrong's mixture" with safety-match heads and the red striking material, similar but unrefined version of the kind used in cap gun caps
2:00 Mail order dozens!? Imagine DHL or UPS doing their 'handling' ... that would certainly not cause any problems...
These were shipped in wooden crates by rail. Too many shipping accidents caused them to be banned from rail transport.
One thing, you should make sure those car batteries are fully charged and/or bring them inside so they avoid freezing temperatures. If they don't have a high enough voltage in them when winter hits then the water and acid will separate some and it'll freeze causing ice to bulge the batteries and bust up the lead plates inside.
I'm learning that gasoline is *barely* flammable in liquid form. Dropping sparks on a puddle of liquid gasoline will almost never ignite it.
I've been watching Styro for like 15+ some odd years and only recently realized he grew up an hour or so from me. Glad our paths never crossed, I was getting into enough trouble for having fun as it was.
No plasma microwave?😁
I would of loved to have those snap-pops when I were a kid. Too bad they were banned. But knowing how people and kids now, it's for the best.
There's nothing different about people now. Kids will always do stupid shit with fireworks.
It’s not the kids now that’s the issue, it’s that people couldn’t stop blowing up their hands and using fireworks irresponsibly, they still do that
@@Stickiestboi Shock sensitive explosives are still objectively a bad thing. Even if you're responsible, accidents happen.
@@mrbanana6464 Oh yeah, absolutely, unless handles by professionals, these fireworks were always a hazard
Those fuseless fireworks are just a smaller version of what the railroads use when a train is stranded on the rails a conductor will walk a mile or two down the track and strap a torpedo to the rails to warn approaching trains to stop
Amazing that after so many years they still pop like they should.
Amazing that a guy who owns a slingshot throws and misses *winks*
Thanks, hope you're doing well
3:33 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
that is sooooooooooooooo dangerous. never ever point the axe blade up especially if u gonna hit something that has potential to kick it back like EXPLOSIVES!
That one just had me scream inside. Even though the actual explosive force of these isn't that much, uh. Well, any kind of hammer or axe bounce back isn't great, nevermind when the blade is directed right back at you...
@@SaphireLattice indeed
I have a feeling he did it on purpose
These need to be brought back. I don't care about the safety concerns, give 'em!
They have started selling versions that look like skinny fused ones but are impact sensitive and are surprisingly loud
Given how things are shipped and delivered nowadays. I'd doubt they would arrive.
You can still get impact sensitive firecrackers, they are just limited to 0.05g of flash powder.
I had one in my pocket once, sat down at the dinner table, and BOOM
In the mid 80’s my brother and I were waiting for our stepdad to come in from being out at sea for months. (Navy). We took two boxes of the snap pops and made one big one. We emptied them all out into a baggie. It made a big difference.
Laughing like a manic less goooo (also you finally posted on this channel after a million years for public)
1:03 Did he just throw fireworks into the woods to test them?
What of it? He addressed it in the video.
Where else would he test them? if he did it anywhere else not as secluded he probably would get a few complaints about the noise
America 🇺🇸
Lol
I love your vids so I'm glad to see one in this insanity we live in
"sportsball was never my thing"
i kinda could've guessed from the start of the video
The railroad used torpedoes as signals on the tracks - a train would run over one of them, and the 'bang' would let them know another train is ahead, or whatever....
My anxiety grew everytime he touched his face.
i want to give this guy a crisp high five so bad
Now that's dope, getting ancient fireworks as a gift
imagine having a couple of those in your pocket and catching your hip on the table on the way by
I grew up firework starved in 50s-60s CA except for "Safe and Sane" ones: Oooo, a fountain, snakes, and sparklers; not even fire crackers. I finally got my hands on the holy grail: a single M-80. To quote Henry Ford II "I had no idea" Every housewife on both sides of the block came out of their house wondering WTF. I played innocent
1:43 sounds like a bloody sniper rifle. Lmao
No... It doesn't.. plus any rifle can be a "sniper rifle" because a sniper is a person. Not a type of rifle. Put down the videogames bub
@@PropGuru702bub he’s just trying to make a comparison
@@PropGuru702 Hey. Are you doing okay today?
@@PropGuru702 cope. ;)
@@asillylildude a comparison to something that doesn't exist lol. Ok pal
5:59 AsS 😂
*AsS*
*AsS*
8:58PM (6) 29/11/2024
On the shorts channel?
As far as I know, the old sparklers were banned because of badly burned children's feet due to the steel wire handles thrown on the ground after use. Damned things were almost molten, and would stay hot for a long time.
I've watched your channel for years, you have both inspired me and taught me so much, even though I'm old haha. I can see you have your grandfather's adventurous side and it was great to see you have the same fun with these thing that he once did. I am sure he is proud of you mate. Thanks for everything you do and don't stop.
Damn, mixing both types of sparklers would look so pretty
You can get very close to the original by just lighting 3-4 at the same time.
Careful, the more you light right next to each other the faster they burn.
30-40 of them makes for a flare bright enough to light up the entire backyard.
200-300 will light up a small valley for a half second. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
@@feldamar2 still have a shit ton from 4th of july, good to know...
@@testname4464 Reminder that they are BOILING METAL HOT. So if you plan on doing this, make sure the blast radius accounts for flying 2000c liquid metal. So...keep that in mind.
@@feldamar2 good point, thanks for the heads up