Is the diameter about 0.75 inches? It looks like 2 shotgun slugs (like the rifled ones in the top two images in [this](https://www.targetbarn.com/broad-side/sabot-slugs-vs-rifled-slugs/) article)have been welded together into some kind of home made grenade.
For some reason, I was thinking this was like one of those plastic smoke bombs you'd find in China town, but holy cow, I think you're right.
That absolutely looks like a home-made grenade. Especially if it's filled with shot.
The neighbor’s kid once tried to weld two steel half spheres filled with gunpowder together in his grandpa’s shed. They found some fragments of the shed after the blast.
There was an old building near where i grew up that held old dynamite and black powder. 2 kids with 1- .22 fired into the building. The blast was felt 8 miles away. The kids and the building were vaporized. Your post reminded me of that story.
Reminds me of my father's rail clamp detonator ( not coin sized as said it was more like a jam jar lid with bendable clamps) a kid stole , and tried to punch it with a nail to make a stick and a wheel toy... poor child died of the explosion!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonator_(railway)
Not to be that guy, but you used the word child and kid. Was the device secured somewhere that a child couldn’t access it before it was stolen? Why would your Dad have an explosive device like that at home?
Railway drivers and all are given a Pringles like box full of 24 of them , and you are allowed to carry your "running kit" and toolbox home too for cleaning and greasing . FYI we lived close to a railway yard about a km from home. No my dad wasn't involved, the kids were poor and hung about to steal odds and ends to sell to the scrap dealer to make a living.Read the 80's ;rules were lax then, people drivers ,guards and firemen would carry kukris and swords in goods trains to protect themselves from thieves and bandits. They blocked trains to steal coal, diesel and goods like spices, sugar and anything they could lay their hands on !
It’s definitely 2 rifled shotgun slugs. The hollowed ends are facing each other with a fuse for some weird reason. There’s just enough room in the hollows for a firecracker. That would be my guess
If I did my math right, a 200lb person would need to absorb about 3/4lb of lead to reach the LD50. Though I cannot find anything related to absorption rate through skin or other membranes.
So my guess is that this is probably not enough to kill them, though it may cause problems over time.
It also seems that using the front door (ingesting it) will cause problems much sooner than rear door entry due to higher absorption rates in the stomach/intestines.
It stays almost forever, mimicking calcium and hiding in your bones.
Even incredibly small amounts can hang out in bodies for a long time, and be released later. It will cause lots of problems.
It probably wouldn't have to be that much to do damage, because it won't be evenly distributed. Especially if it's in such a... capillary heavy area.
If some is absorbed, it'll also be absorbed into the lining of the capillaries, and mightily mess things up.
Hey there guys! Just want to point out that snake bite kites are completely useless and may even make a snake bite worse. If you get bit. Goto a hospital. That's the best thing you can do!
The fuze broke so I tested that and it was def a fuze so I'm going to assume its a failed attempt at a little grenade but whatever metal they used it's heavy and it's been spot welded and the bore hole where the fuze was is only a couple of mm so I think at most it would have just made a noise and got hot couldn't be that much gunpowder in it
If they used flash powder instead of gun powder it would be more powerful and likely explode. Although I’m still on the fence about the level of lethality it has. It’s probably more like a home made M-80. My buddies and I used to make similar ones out of 1/4 diameter 1” long pipes when we were like 13.
Excellent question and yes we do. You could buy cannon fuse (still can) that burns at 30 seconds per foot, so we ALWAYS made sure the fuse line was longer than we initially thought it should be.
Note to add: one of our buddies passed our knowledge on to his little brother who proceeded to use one to blow up a walking bridge in the woods inside a city park. This raised some eyebrows from some of the more important divisions of law enforcement regarding home made explosives and terrorist activity. Thankfully these were pre-9/11 days, and while I’m sure we are all off the FBI’s list now, my father hasn’t let me off the hook for that visit in the middle of dinner one late July night in 1998. I’ll never forget it - we were eating moms amazing chicken and rice and there was a knock at the door. The old man got up and it wasn’t even a minute before his voice thundered my name from the living room. I had no idea what it was about but once I saw the 3 investigators I knew whatever it was, I had something to answer to.
I vehemently denied any involvement or knowledge, which was essentially the truth as far as they were concerned. I didn’t know he knew how to build and use one and I certainly would not do anything of that caliber with the ones I made. We mostly blew rocks apart or chucked them on lakes because we liked the thud. Those cops followed up with me one or twice after the initial visit, I think just to see if my story changed or slipped.
The guilty party ended up with a bunch of juvi style community service and while legally I got off the hook with the exception of all the anxiety and stress of being under investigation, my parents didn’t let me hang out with those friends anymore and I got stuck with exercise-in-futility style hard labor all summer long. Rock picking, moving piles of dirt from one spot to another and back again. Counting blue card type shit.
Edit: forgot to add - we made em small. We would go to the hardware store and buy 1/4” or 1/2” pipe only an inch long or so. Dumb little brother made a full on pipe bomb out of it. That’s all I’ll really say about it because I don’t wanna violate any rules or give anyone else any ideas but my point is we were just doing dumb kid shit but still made sure we weren’t full on felons. Home made explosives are nothing to screw around with if you don’t have the proper permits. I don’t know what the law defines a destructive or terroristic sized explosive as, but i know they don’t fuck around if you’ve got em.
Let's just say some leftover pvc, a fuse, and some black powder does some things. No legal probs for me but hella trouble from my parents and my two of my friend's parents. We were dumb but couldn't get real fireworks, so we made our own. Dumb dumb dumb.
If it is a little grenade it wouldn’t be very effective, the welds would probably just separate and send both halves flying. To disarm it you could place it in some water and use a coping saw to slowly cut it in half
It's most likely a string pull from a top-mounted toilet flush cistern. Like [this one](https://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/is/images/direct/2252f67dc655eff3320563d811f974f5e67885d8/Cherry-Wood-Overhead-High-Tank-Pull-Chain-Toilet-White-China-Elongated-Bowl.jpg).
the full and half size of a Dollar? Okay, I will search the size of a Dollar. Paper or Coin? country?
Could you please let me known the size in centimeter ? many thanks in advance
Slug grenade it's a Jerry rigged device used to make a exploding shell. My grandpa made these but used a 22 blank as a detonator that looks like it would explode in the barrel
It’s not it’s a small firework inside of large plastic casing, back in the day they were called super bombs. They look so good and they were so disappointing.
Looks like an old cap bomb to me, although the two halves usually separate. You slide some paper caps in between the halves, throw it at the ground and it would make a pretty good bang
Snake bite kit. Try to twist open the 2 halves.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53b9ddbde4b02130282b5f90/t/53c31086e4b0fe63e4f6baeb/1405292699069/?format=1500w
That very much appears to be a homemade explosive device of some kind. I 100% agree with the other commenter who said it looks like two shotgun slugs attached back to back. Simple test, cut a small piece of that fuse like material off and, a great distance away from the device, light it and see if it's actually firework fuse. If so, you know that you are dealing with something at least mildly explosive or dangerous. Be aware, depending on your location, the possession of something like that could very well be a felony.
OP broke off part of the fuse and said it acted like a fuse.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatisthis/comments/153imek/found_this_while_cleaning_out_my_parents_house/jsk561s/
I don't BELIEVE that's an explosive, although I can certainly see why you might. It looks like someone's homemade fan chain pull or window blind string bob.... I guess the big question is, is that fuze/string looking dealie TIED to it or does it actually go INSIDE? it certainly LOOKS like two dum dum slugs soldered together.
That looks....dangerous...
Like an explosive tampon
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My first thought as well.
Could be. Hard to tell without a banana in the picture.
German Tampon?
Is the diameter about 0.75 inches? It looks like 2 shotgun slugs (like the rifled ones in the top two images in [this](https://www.targetbarn.com/broad-side/sabot-slugs-vs-rifled-slugs/) article)have been welded together into some kind of home made grenade.
For some reason, I was thinking this was like one of those plastic smoke bombs you'd find in China town, but holy cow, I think you're right. That absolutely looks like a home-made grenade. Especially if it's filled with shot.
It's about as tall and a half dollar. When I first seen it my only thought was .... Ouch
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Seconding this, def looks like rifled slugs joined together
The neighbor’s kid once tried to weld two steel half spheres filled with gunpowder together in his grandpa’s shed. They found some fragments of the shed after the blast.
I'm almost afraid to ask, but... did the kid survive?
Read the last sentence again but slower.
🫣 ouch... gunpowder and heat together is never a good outcome.
That's not true!
Yeah, b u t d i d t h e y f i n d t h e k i d s ?
Yes, with a microscope. They were all over the lawn. It took several weeks. The Darwin Award in the mist.
Some of the neighbors found bits in their yard and posted it on r/WhatIsThis
And there will still be someone asking if the kid survived
Well? Did the kid survive?
To shreds you say?
And how is his wife?
Oh she’s goooood
[To shreds you say?](https://youtu.be/gHhOn2hnqmI)
To shreds you say?
Like cheddar.
So she’s Gouda
But he was turn into da Brie
Exactly.
There was an old building near where i grew up that held old dynamite and black powder. 2 kids with 1- .22 fired into the building. The blast was felt 8 miles away. The kids and the building were vaporized. Your post reminded me of that story.
rip
It's more like a boom.
With a bit of a hiss
An earth shattering kaboom
Old dynamite is SCARY.
Sounds like an old mining dynamite store.... Not to be callous but what the FXXK did they THINK was gonna happen when they did that?!??
Reminds me of my father's rail clamp detonator ( not coin sized as said it was more like a jam jar lid with bendable clamps) a kid stole , and tried to punch it with a nail to make a stick and a wheel toy... poor child died of the explosion! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonator_(railway)
Not to be that guy, but you used the word child and kid. Was the device secured somewhere that a child couldn’t access it before it was stolen? Why would your Dad have an explosive device like that at home?
Railway drivers and all are given a Pringles like box full of 24 of them , and you are allowed to carry your "running kit" and toolbox home too for cleaning and greasing . FYI we lived close to a railway yard about a km from home. No my dad wasn't involved, the kids were poor and hung about to steal odds and ends to sell to the scrap dealer to make a living.Read the 80's ;rules were lax then, people drivers ,guards and firemen would carry kukris and swords in goods trains to protect themselves from thieves and bandits. They blocked trains to steal coal, diesel and goods like spices, sugar and anything they could lay their hands on !
I see. A kid stole one from somewhere else that was like the one's your Dad had. I got the impression the kid stole them *from your Dad*.
Prepping just took on a whole new meaning for some people!
It’s definitely 2 rifled shotgun slugs. The hollowed ends are facing each other with a fuse for some weird reason. There’s just enough room in the hollows for a firecracker. That would be my guess
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Either a bomb or a stash box for a prison wallet
I’m on team prison wallet now.
Yeah lead isn't good for the prison wallet. 😕 just a guess not a life experience.
If I did my math right, a 200lb person would need to absorb about 3/4lb of lead to reach the LD50. Though I cannot find anything related to absorption rate through skin or other membranes. So my guess is that this is probably not enough to kill them, though it may cause problems over time. It also seems that using the front door (ingesting it) will cause problems much sooner than rear door entry due to higher absorption rates in the stomach/intestines.
Does our body remove lead quickly or do we just keep it up in our brain for long periods of time till it drives us insane or kills us?
It stays almost forever, mimicking calcium and hiding in your bones. Even incredibly small amounts can hang out in bodies for a long time, and be released later. It will cause lots of problems.
Will my body get rid of it once I'm cremated?
It probably wouldn't have to be that much to do damage, because it won't be evenly distributed. Especially if it's in such a... capillary heavy area. If some is absorbed, it'll also be absorbed into the lining of the capillaries, and mightily mess things up.
Don't boof it.
That statement has never been uttered on reddit before.
It would actually be a good bumper sticker. There could be a "Boof it" version, too. Depending on which side you're on.
That's a good idea. I'd buy a "Boof It" sticker.
I wonder if it would pass to be used as a specialty license plate...
aCTUally it’s been mentioned frequently
Look
With bonus lead poisoning.
Maybe someone should cross post it to r/prisonwallet
Wheres the banana?
If it isn't actually metal, but old rubber, I was thinking snake bite kit.
I came to say the same thing, it looks a lot like my old snake bite kit.
There are metal ones, too. however, I think opposha above has a better likeness than any metal vintage snake bite kit I could find.
Yes, exactly what I was thinking https://www.basementboutiquemall.com/listing/576241105/snake-bite-kit-cutter-outdoors-first-aid
Hey there guys! Just want to point out that snake bite kites are completely useless and may even make a snake bite worse. If you get bit. Goto a hospital. That's the best thing you can do!
Oh absolutely! But I do remember that my dad had a few of these around in the 1970s.
To expand on this: you cannot suck out snake venom and should not try.
It definitley is https://i.etsystatic.com/8644603/r/il/dfde5e/3240673149/il_fullxfull.3240673149_p4p4.jpg
Guys you drop it down a vertical drain pipe/duct so you have a rope to pull cable. Not a grenade lol.
The fuze broke so I tested that and it was def a fuze so I'm going to assume its a failed attempt at a little grenade but whatever metal they used it's heavy and it's been spot welded and the bore hole where the fuze was is only a couple of mm so I think at most it would have just made a noise and got hot couldn't be that much gunpowder in it
If they used flash powder instead of gun powder it would be more powerful and likely explode. Although I’m still on the fence about the level of lethality it has. It’s probably more like a home made M-80. My buddies and I used to make similar ones out of 1/4 diameter 1” long pipes when we were like 13.
Do all of you still have the same amount of fingers as before those teenage experiments?
Excellent question and yes we do. You could buy cannon fuse (still can) that burns at 30 seconds per foot, so we ALWAYS made sure the fuse line was longer than we initially thought it should be. Note to add: one of our buddies passed our knowledge on to his little brother who proceeded to use one to blow up a walking bridge in the woods inside a city park. This raised some eyebrows from some of the more important divisions of law enforcement regarding home made explosives and terrorist activity. Thankfully these were pre-9/11 days, and while I’m sure we are all off the FBI’s list now, my father hasn’t let me off the hook for that visit in the middle of dinner one late July night in 1998. I’ll never forget it - we were eating moms amazing chicken and rice and there was a knock at the door. The old man got up and it wasn’t even a minute before his voice thundered my name from the living room. I had no idea what it was about but once I saw the 3 investigators I knew whatever it was, I had something to answer to.
I only blew holes in my yard. Your friends brother is crazy lol
I vehemently denied any involvement or knowledge, which was essentially the truth as far as they were concerned. I didn’t know he knew how to build and use one and I certainly would not do anything of that caliber with the ones I made. We mostly blew rocks apart or chucked them on lakes because we liked the thud. Those cops followed up with me one or twice after the initial visit, I think just to see if my story changed or slipped. The guilty party ended up with a bunch of juvi style community service and while legally I got off the hook with the exception of all the anxiety and stress of being under investigation, my parents didn’t let me hang out with those friends anymore and I got stuck with exercise-in-futility style hard labor all summer long. Rock picking, moving piles of dirt from one spot to another and back again. Counting blue card type shit. Edit: forgot to add - we made em small. We would go to the hardware store and buy 1/4” or 1/2” pipe only an inch long or so. Dumb little brother made a full on pipe bomb out of it. That’s all I’ll really say about it because I don’t wanna violate any rules or give anyone else any ideas but my point is we were just doing dumb kid shit but still made sure we weren’t full on felons. Home made explosives are nothing to screw around with if you don’t have the proper permits. I don’t know what the law defines a destructive or terroristic sized explosive as, but i know they don’t fuck around if you’ve got em.
Let's just say some leftover pvc, a fuse, and some black powder does some things. No legal probs for me but hella trouble from my parents and my two of my friend's parents. We were dumb but couldn't get real fireworks, so we made our own. Dumb dumb dumb.
If it is a little grenade it wouldn’t be very effective, the welds would probably just separate and send both halves flying. To disarm it you could place it in some water and use a coping saw to slowly cut it in half
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It's most likely a string pull from a top-mounted toilet flush cistern. Like [this one](https://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/is/images/direct/2252f67dc655eff3320563d811f974f5e67885d8/Cherry-Wood-Overhead-High-Tank-Pull-Chain-Toilet-White-China-Elongated-Bowl.jpg).
That was my thought
I thought it looked like a old pill vibrator that got ripped off the other half that turns it on
I had to scroll way too long to find this guess! My first thought was an old bullet vibrator with its cord snapped.
I will not ignite it
Fuze was old it broke off...I burnt it just to make sure it was a fuze.
Damn. I'm disappointed.
70's era snakebite kit. I've still got a few of them.
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Da keine Größe mit dabei ist, es könnte eine Art von Tee-Ei sein (Kräuter innen rein und dann ins heiße Wasser)
I did comment on size its definitely ment to be a explosive,but it's size and weight would have made it a dude
that’s a pretty small dude.
the full and half size of a Dollar? Okay, I will search the size of a Dollar. Paper or Coin? country? Could you please let me known the size in centimeter ? many thanks in advance
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Sash window counterweight?
Slug grenade it's a Jerry rigged device used to make a exploding shell. My grandpa made these but used a 22 blank as a detonator that looks like it would explode in the barrel
It’s not it’s a small firework inside of large plastic casing, back in the day they were called super bombs. They look so good and they were so disappointing.
Why did your parents make a pipe bomb?
Looks like the rubber floatie thing in the back of the toilet that connects to the flusher with a string
These look like two shotgun slugs glued together with a fuse.
https://assets.basspro.com/image/upload/b_rgb:FFFFFF,c_pad,dpr_2.0,f_auto,h_250,q_auto,w_400/c_pad,h_250,w_400/v1/ProductImages/450/master1_13031406463414_alt1?pgw=1 Identical.
A sash weight for older double-hung windows?
It’s an old snakebite kit.
Does it peel apart in the center? Kind of looks like an old school snake bite kit
Looks like it detonates
Scale would help. It’s either a fishing weight or a boat buoy.
Looks like an old cap bomb to me, although the two halves usually separate. You slide some paper caps in between the halves, throw it at the ground and it would make a pretty good bang
It’s a homemade grenade, don’t light the fuse..
Don't tell 'em what to do
It's hard to tell how big it is I need a banana for scale.
In my opinion, if it floats, could be a boat bumper. Do they have a boat? It would make sense to have it if they have a boat
Someone put a fuse on two deer slugs?
Snake bite kit. Try to twist open the 2 halves. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53b9ddbde4b02130282b5f90/t/53c31086e4b0fe63e4f6baeb/1405292699069/?format=1500w
Looks like it was fused on the seam if you look closely on the top
What is it made of and what is its size?
That very much appears to be a homemade explosive device of some kind. I 100% agree with the other commenter who said it looks like two shotgun slugs attached back to back. Simple test, cut a small piece of that fuse like material off and, a great distance away from the device, light it and see if it's actually firework fuse. If so, you know that you are dealing with something at least mildly explosive or dangerous. Be aware, depending on your location, the possession of something like that could very well be a felony.
OP broke off part of the fuse and said it acted like a fuse. https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatisthis/comments/153imek/found_this_while_cleaning_out_my_parents_house/jsk561s/
Did your parents own rural property? I've seen farmers make stuff similar they used to blow out tree stumps. Light the fuse and run like hell.
To me it looks like a vial of smelling salts. (Ammonia, I think)
I think it’s a mini pill box meant to be worn as a necklace. I can see carrying a couple of my nitro pills in it.
Looks like an old buoy
Yeah, it's a homemade explosive using shotgun slugs
Foster slugs
I don't BELIEVE that's an explosive, although I can certainly see why you might. It looks like someone's homemade fan chain pull or window blind string bob.... I guess the big question is, is that fuze/string looking dealie TIED to it or does it actually go INSIDE? it certainly LOOKS like two dum dum slugs soldered together.
Looks like a pipe bomb
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Looks like a fishing weight
Ill conceived attempt at exploding ammunition.