a party popper could be used to denonate
a pingpong full of matchheads, is there and way(s) in which i can pull something on the
'grenade' and toss it out before the party popper is set off....


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party popper-----ll
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pingpong--------(__)

Not unless you used a complex winding spring mechanism, which would completely defeat the purpose of using a party popper...

Just use a fuse.

~Zero the Inestimable

use a fuse ? you need lighter/matches.....
what i wish to achieve is to pull a pin on
the 'grenade' and throw it out....

Wrap some matches around the end of your fuse. Tape on a strikepad.

It works- I use this system all the time, now.

~Zero the Inestimable

Zero, could u be more specific with that method, say, how to put it on a crater maker. where does everything go. a pic. would help.

i think zero is using the method used in the terriost hand book.


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i= the fuse
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just pull of the strike paper and the thing starts

Well, there are a multitude of ways you could do it. However you do, just be sure you have at least five matches touching the end of the fuse.

code:

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\                  Matches
 \_                ========:  
  _|---------------=-=-=-=-=:  Fuse
 /                 ========:
/

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Wrap the whole thing in tape once or twice to make everything stay there.

All you have do to light it is strike the matches on a strikepad. You can get fancy and tape the strikepad directly to the device, but I don't bother. I have a wrist bracelet with a large strikepad attached to it (made it myself) that I just keep under my sleeve and use for this sort of thing.

~Zero the Inestimable

do u know where you could buy a strike pad thats sorta big, instead of using lots of matches box ones?

You could just get a big box of wooden matchs. They have big strikers on the side. Plus youd have extra matchs