I still have one of these around here somewhere…it smells exactly as you’d imagine.
Edit: Another image for how this thing worked…
One of the coolest toys to have existed.
What about the Slime Pit TM
Hell yeah! I was born like 2 years after this came out so it wasn’t an option for me 😭 I got to experience the other ones through my older cousins though.
Me three guesses are glue dots, weird tape, or something used for fire works.
cap pistol cap rolls.
edit: I held and used them, they were common u til the early 80’s at least as far as I know.
They were still common in the 90s. Not sure about the 00s though
Used to get em at the dollar store, early 2000s
you can still get them. My friend just gave his son his old cap gun and got a bunch of rolls.
- Step 1: Be a kid given a cap gun as a toy
- Step 2: Pull the trigger two or three times
- Step 3: Go find a hammer
- Step 3: Go find a hammer
I used to run my thumbnail across them. My fingertips were constantly black and smell like fireworks/hotdogs.
Pop the whole roll at once.
Light it on fire… or so a friend told me
I left mine on the carpet in my room. My mom came in to vacuum one day and thought it was just some scrap paper.
She was not amused by the 2 inch burnt mark it left on the carpet, or the shock it gave her.
Ah reminds me. My dad did smoke. And as tobacco was taxed differently he had once used one of these small sliding machines to put tobacco into “empty” cigarettes, sold separately.
He had stopped using these and was back to store bought cigarettes when I found his cigarettes and the machine.
I carefully pulled out all the tobacco from one of his Camel filters, and put it back in with the sliding machine - adding the tiniest firecracker I had.
Few days later he was sooooo angry. And the angrier he was the more I had to laugh.
It did explode in his ashtray when he was concentrating at his desk.
Oh fuck, thats was over 40 years ago and I still have to laugh like a madman.
Remembering him fondly, even when he was mad as hell at me the worst that would happen was him shouting.
I absolutely guarantee you he told that story to his friends with a huge smile.
Is that why afterwards they put the explody paper in those plastic revolver rings?
Opening them, inserting all the powder into one. Russian roulette as a kid was a bit of a fucked up thing back then …
I thought that was just a different type, but you might be right. Not sure when each of those products were released.
We used the scrape them on the sidewalk with a rock
Can still smell the burnt sulphur
Look who’s back shitposting!
We missed you, Mickey.
A friend and I had the bright idea to hit a whole roll of those with a hammer. We also were smart enough to know that it should be on something hard, like a garage floor. We also knew that we didn’t want anyone to see us. So, we made sure all the garage doors were good and shut. I swear, it literally blew his hair back, and my ears have been ringing ever since.
See? Scotty doesn’t know…about toy safety and hearing protection! This is why OSHA would be upset!
We did the same thing, but I was the smart dumbass who knew that’s how you lose fingers, so I had us hide behind a board and drop a bowling ball into it. It cracked the fucking ball! My parents were livid
Thanks for doing my intrusive thoughts
Do they not make cap guns anymore?
Nah. Now kids want the real thing. They show off their guns at school and trade bullets.
/darkhumor
Especially all the kids with the pumped-up kicks.
The other kids are the ones with pumped up kicks.
Are you telling me that a happy beat will just make people zone out lyrics? Wild🤣.
I had at least a few and they never fucking fired right like 95% of the time. The clack of the hammer was louder than the damn cap itself.
Later I got one of those that takes an orange revolver style cap set and they were so much more reliable. Except you ran out of ammo in like 3 seconds and getting a parent to go buy more of those expensive ass refill things was nearly impossible.
Cursed fruit of the foot
You can still buy these.
I always wanted to see what would happen if I lit one of these on fire.
It’s fun enough, but not as fun as you would think. Better to use them the right way.
You mean, like this?
To all the “hammer people”. What you do is you fold it lengthwise down the middle (opening each “dot”) and then carefully pack several rolls into a cylinder. Let say the plastic cylinder these things came in. Then use electrical tape and tape it good and tight. Preferably several cylinders. Remember to put in a fuse. A rubber band clipped open will work in lieu of a proper fuse.
These things blows like flash bangers
Yes! I did this so many times as a t(w)een! Good times.
Wrap the strip tightly around a penny and then tape the whole thing is what I used to do. Remarkably potent when tossed on the ground.
I feel like a video of this in action would be classic 2000s internet.
A scene that would have gone viral was when were 12 four of us pooled our money and bought a display box of the rolls.
What commenced was an conveyer belt style production of the things. Being total idiots we had no real idea what we were doing so we taped together several cylinders and while one packed the rest folded. The “packer” used that back end of a fork to get the stuff real tight in the cylinder and since he was sitting with it between his legs in the crotch area he started simulating masturbation with the fork as an attempt to amuse. (Did I mention we were 12 AND idiots?)
What happens was that the friction of cource ignites the damn thing. Luckily it was early in the production so he did not set of much. What happened was teared jeans, some spectacular brucing and a visit to the emergency room. No permanent damage.
The thing is I still work with explosives in a professional capacity and I found that these things are still being sold… P1 pyrotechnic articles, “low hazard” so its still not to late to go viral…
That’s wild and I’m really glad your buddy didn’t lose his real fork!
“Must be used under adult supervision”
Classic disclaimer
Hah… Adult supervision = benign neglect.
And see what I found!
HOT DAMN TIME TO MAKE SOME FLASHBANGS
All I know is that they smelled good.
You mean the sulfur?
Yeah.
You’re gonna love farts.
sulphur from caps. Farts are hydrogen sulfide.
Everyone loves their own brand, but I’ve not really enjoyed them in general.
More for the rest of us!
“Anyone who says they hate farts is choosing to have less joy in their life, but the same amount of farts”
Damn, that hit home.
Did anyone else remember that idiot friend who put several of these behind his teeth and pulled them all out setting several off in quick succession?
This is why we have to pay extra for dental.
I know what they are but I have never seen them in real life nor used them. I had these:
They sold these and the strips next to one another at the dollar store when I was a kid. Born '95
Wow, I remember having a revolver, it was loads of fun as a kid to actually have the shots go off. Probably infuriating to the adults, which may be why I rarely had any.
Naw, the adults were at home. We were outside.
If you remember “playing outside” you must be very old.
The revolver I had constantly burned my hand. Whenever it hit the “bullet”, sparks went straight towards my hand. Still, totally worth the pain.
Can I ask you when you were born? Because I remember using the paper strips when I was really young and then at some point they dissapeared and got replaced by those plastic rings. I was born in 94.
I used both. Am from 93.
similar age. I used both. I think the strips did get harder to find at the dollar store when I got older
I can see why they went to the rings. You could do the whole strip with a thumbnail if you were a young idiot.
you could also get the whole strip with a thumbnail of you just wanted to have some fun
92, Baltics
I grew up with both, the paper ones were nice for “other” destructive purposes. And that you had a ton of shots on a roll.
The rings were nice because they always stayed in alignment. The paper ones would sometimes lose their pacing and the hammer would hit the spaces between the dots.
I remember seeing plastic 12 shot rings too.
During the pandemic, percussion caps for black powder guns were unavailable and I got those types of caps to work marginally well.
