Improvised Flash Bang

WARNING: For accomplishing this instructable you'll gonna need items that are illegal in USA. So don't even try to buy those kinder surprises at a shady person at the end of a street...

Although, you can buy the plastic containers from them we'll need here on ebay... or elsewhere...

But anyway, if you think you're old enough for dealing with pyrotechnics, make sure it's not one of that thoughts that made you puting a fart pillow onto the teacher's chair last week, or making that prank call to Alice, saying you love her... maybe she has a real fealings for you... you, dick! Anyway, if you have no self consciousness or sence of responsibility, don't even try to give me that high four of your's, after even you'll manage to get some result out of it's instructable.

But if you're an adult and responsible person, I congratulate you: you're an adult and responsible person so you can proceed with this tutorial.

So, whether it's a firebreathing mutant koalas taking over the humanity, or Justin Bieber cloning went horribly wrong, you're fealing cool and chill, because you have marvelous Improvised Tripwire Alarm Siren, so you know exactly, when the enemies are approaching.

But what to do when they're are already near?!

You have to put fear in the very bottom of their soul (or the lack of it if it's the case) by showing them how buffed you are and how terrifingly spiky your armor is. But only in short bursts! Long exposure can dull the neural responce and cause them not being that terrified as you want them to be. You'll gonna need some magnificent IMPROVISED FLASH BANG GRANADES!!!

Step 1:

And to make some, you'll gonna need... THE BOX OF SOME OLD STUFF!!! If you, don't have one, i'm sorry, you're doomed.

Specifically you'll need:

- A match box with matches;

- Plastic Kinder Surpise containers;

- Some amount of aluminium powder;

- Firecrackers with picture of a pirate on them (and if you think it's just a picture of a pirate, you're wrong! It's a reminder for you to buy a pirate hat. Why? Because if you're dumm, the pirate hat is the only thing that matches those eye patches you'll be getting as a birthday presents for the last of your life).

- Electric tape or a duct tape;

- Other improvised stuff;

Step 2:

First of all, take a plastic container and use something suitable to make a hole in a top part of it. The hole must be large enough to hold the firecracker firmly.

Step 3:

Fit the firecracker into the hole and push it all the way down.

Step 4:

Usually that pink matter on the working end of a firecracker is to soft and crumbly to perform reliably enough for igniting the thing with a stricking surface of a box, so I'm adding a pair of half-cut matches to solve the problem.

Step 5:

You can find aluminium powder on ebay. If you don't have internet working during the real life internet meme pandemia, you'll gonna have to file it from soda cans.

Put something like of a tea spoon of powder into the container and close it.

Step 6:

Now, use some suitable material to cut 85-90mm long strips out of it.

I'm using one of those plastic strips that are used for packing boxes and other stuff.

Step 7:

I'm reinforcing the piece with a couple of wraps of electrical tape at one of the ends. It'll serve us when the pull ring will be added.

Step 8:

Cut a striking surface piece from a matchbox and adhere it to the piece of plastic strip. Doublesided tape or a hot glue will do the job.

Step 9:

Punch a hole at the reinforced end of the plastic strip.

Even if it's not plastic in your case... do the same.

Step 10:

Install a pull ring.

Step 11:

Cut another strip 9cm long.

Step 12:

In order for our flash bang granade to work properly providing the flash of light, the plastic shell has to be shredded by the blast into pieces. To assure it happens we have to wrap the container with electrical tape where the seam from two halves is.

I don't remember how many wraps it takes. I believe a was making 3 or 4 of those. But I don't know how strong the tape you're using is and how powerfull your firecrachers, so there's no use from my experience here anyway. You'll have to figure it out for you by experimental tests.

You see, the thing is that with too little wraps of electrical tape the container will just pop open. But with too many of them the blast will burst through the top. As I sayd we need the container to be shredded into pieces.

So I'm making the first wrap with the electrical tape, and with the rest of it I'm also securing the 9cm strip onto the main body of the granade. Pull-out piese is added at the pocess too and is held by the 9cm strip.

Step 13:

Now, a little safety detail. A piece of electrical tape... or whatever you've got there, is added to fix the pull-out piece on the body of the granade. It'll prevent the device from being activated prematurily.

Or make a blob of hot glue to do the same job.

Step 14:

In order to use this device:

1. Detach the safety... preventor... piece;

2. Push firmly ontop of the device with your thumb to press the pull-stripe against the firecracker's... pink active surface... the heads of the mathes... you know what I mean;

3. Pull the pull-stripe to ignite;

4. Throw the device at the drugged asylum monkey... or whatever you have there;

5. Be buffed and armored.

Step 15:

If made proprerly, the granade produces loud bang and a flash of light, which will be enough to startle and disorient for a few moments a person that's not expecting something like that.

Long time ago I made a whole bunch of those granades that were used then at a strikeball game. They all worked. It was great fun. The forest wasn't burnt. I killed 3 men from my own team and went lost in the woods. It was the first and the last time I played strikeball.

So, now, whether it's ocasional comic con went amok after somebody smuggled those weird mushrooms in, or all of those ice-sand-lava-lemonsde shark tornado-earthquake-rainbow-floods movies are turned out to be real, you can show all those vampire vegeterians how to be dazed and confused better than Robert Plant ever did.

This is it for now, thanks for your attention, and sorry for giving you unrealistic expectations: noone can do it better than Robert Plant.

P.S.: I know, that's not a pirate.