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Mother of all Smoke Bombs : A 4 pound smoke bomb in a piece of 3" PVC pipe. It took about 2 hours to make, and consists of powdered sugar and potassium nitrate (salt peter). It's kinda tricky to make because you have to melt the two together, and if it gets too hot it goes off. It took about 10 batches and 90 minutes to make this one, in an 8" frying pan over a portable propane stove (not recommended, use an electric hot plate and do it outside!). I made one batch about 3 times what I normally do and that turned out to be too much to handle, and I accidentally set it off. This is about 5 times bigger than any smoke bomb I've ever made! More pictures to come when I set it off.

Mother of all Smoke Bombs

A 4 pound smoke bomb in a piece of 3" PVC pipe. It took about 2 hours to make, and consists of powdered sugar and potassium nitrate (salt peter). It's kinda tricky to make because you have to melt the two together, and if it gets too hot it goes off. It took about 10 batches and 90 minutes to make this one, in an 8" frying pan over a p ...

Updated: Nov 10, 2005 10:28am PST