I know what they are but I have never seen them in real life nor used them. I had these:
I can still smell them
Submitted 2 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 months ago
The revolver I had constantly burned my hand. Whenever it hit the “bullet”, sparks went straight towards my hand. Still, totally worth the pain.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Naw, the adults were at home. We were outside.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 2 months ago
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.
Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used both. Am from 93.
sulgoth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can see why they went to the rings. You could do the whole strip with a thumbnail if you were a young idiot.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
similar age. I used both. I think the strips did get harder to find at the dollar store when I got older
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
92, Baltics
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They sold these and the strips next to one another at the dollar store when I was a kid. Born '95
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
During the pandemic, percussion caps for black powder guns were unavailable and I got those types of caps to work marginally well.
ScottThePoolBoy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
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
moonburster@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks for doing my intrusive thoughts
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
See? Scotty doesn’t know…about toy safety and hearing protection! This is why OSHA would be upset!
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You can still buy these.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).
curiousaur@reddthat.com 2 months ago
The paper cap guns just need to be maintained. You have to clean out the residue that builds up or the paper won’t cycle smoothly through it.
h3ll3rsh4nks@ani.social 2 months ago
True but it’s also easier to pretend you’re a grizzled noir detective reloading his snub nosed revolver when you use ring caps
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 months ago
NOW you tell me.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The experience I had was that the hammer wasn’t consistently firing the caps. Perhaps I just had a couple of bad guns? Either way, nothing like those reliability issues with ring caps.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All I know is that they smelled good.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Cap gun caps?
deHaga@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Yep. We used to wrap the whole roll around a coin, then cover that up in sellotape and lob them over the fence at school, makes a good bang!
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes! I did this so many times as a t(w)een! Good times.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like a video of this in action would be classic 2000s internet.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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…
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can smell them too.
It was fun to take a hammer and hit the entire roll at once. They actually made quite the noise.
For reference, I was born in 1970 so yeah I grew up with those things.
0x0@infosec.pub 2 months ago
We used to roll them out like trumps red carpet for maduro, grab some coin and just rip all of them in sequence, wonderful smell
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’m still slightly wary of them after (mildly) burning a knuckle attempting a whole strip
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can still smell the burnt sulphur
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Haha, bought a couple of rolls of these recently to show the kids. Can’t believe no-one’s mentioned penny bangers yet. Take a roll, fold in half lengthwise and wrap radially around a penny, tape off the end, then throw it hard against a hard surface.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I always wanted to see what would happen if I lit one of these on fire.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s fun enough, but not as fun as you would think. Better to use them the right way.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
You mean, like this?
Cyclist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can still get the plastic revolver style.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah these rolls were way better though you got a lot more shots too.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
even as a kid I disliked the waste
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 months ago
Look who’s back shitposting!
We missed you, Mickey.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I gave these to my son to play with in a cap *** in 2008 when he was 8. He’s hardly old as shit. But I am.
m4xie@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Did you censor that word or is that an instance rule? To be clear, the word was gun not ass, correct?
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cap gun… this Minneapolis thing has me wanting to never say gun ever again. Just broken about it.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you’re old as shit, then I’m older than shit, but I’m not old so you’re not old either.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No… we’re vintage.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you for making me feel younger (I’m 26). XD
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My childhood was in the 70s and we absolutely loved this caps. Yes we played with them in ***s but also just on the sidewalk with rocks. Did you guys do the rocks method?
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you see these and think, “I have no idea what those are, no cap,” you’re too young to be on the internet, go back to playing Roblox.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Walmart sells these today. Free delivery.
Zink@programming.dev 2 months ago
I remember it well…
The smell of the gunpowder. In the play room.
SirDankbud@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If you know what these are, your knowledge has capped!
JordanZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]Xella@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One of the coolest toys to have existed.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Hey!
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
This is why we have to pay extra for dental.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I had an idiot friend as a kid who set some off by hitting them against a metal gas canister and I ran away 'cause I thought it was going to explode lol
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cursed fruit of the foot
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We used to just lay those strips on the ground and throw rocks at 'em. Good times.
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I played with them few months back. How old am I?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Looks like really shitty sandpappers/insulation tape.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Do they not make cap guns anymore?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah. Now kids want the real thing. They show off their guns at school and trade bullets.
/darkhumor
sundray@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Especially all the kids with the pumped-up kicks.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those were the newer ones.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I shit practically every day, so tell me again how old I am?
barnacul@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Am I on fucking facebook or something? Shitty boomer post
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
Pop the whole roll at once.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Light it on fire… or so a friend told me
Zomg@piefed.world 2 months ago
We used the scrape them on the sidewalk with a rock
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used to run my thumbnail across them. My fingertips were constantly black and smell like fireworks/hotdogs.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Image
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Is that why afterwards they put the explody paper in those plastic revolver rings?
greenbit@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Opening them, inserting all the powder into one. Russian roulette as a kid was a bit of a fucked up thing back then …
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I thought that was just a different type, but you might be right. Not sure when each of those products were released.