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To: Crocodile who wrote (50957)	5/23/2000 1:02:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (3) of 71178

When my pals and I were kids we built ourselves a sparkler cannon..... We scrounged up a thin metal tube about 8 inches long and 2 inches in diameter. We glued a short wooden base to the tube with Elmer's Glue, and plugged one end with a wooden dowel. Through the other end we stuffed the 'cannon' full of sparklers. Regular old grey 4th of July sparklers. We were hoping for a stream of sparkles to come out of the mouth of the cannon. We placed the cannon on the sidewalk out by the street and struck a match... One sparkler poked out farther than the rest, so we lit it and stood back for the show. But we didn't get a shower of sparkles. Instead, the cannon roared like a rocket engine. A solid blast of flame shot 5 or 6 feet out of the little cannon, which was now glowing a brilliant cherry red. We stood there speechless and bugeyed, watching the cannon change colors as it cooled. No one got hurt, amazingly, and since we were out of sight of pesky adults we didn't even get lectured.

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