Ping Pong Ball

You should see it after some of the kricket matchs, there a team or two that when the fans show up, they leave behind a good two tons of trash. It's also not a bad park for stargazing late at night too. My meets used the space just above 20 yards into the park from that small parkinglot on the mountain side of the park, last time I saw it the lot was still there in 97.

I REALLY have to get my butt back there. Considering that Hawaii was such a huge part of my life back then, I'm surprised I haven't made it back. Last time was Sept 1985.

But if/when I do make it back I'm sure as hell won't be running any marathons there, that's for sure. Knees too bad from playing puck :(

Wow, I'm going to have to visit my parents house and look for some old pics. I remember getting my picture taken with Jack Lord and few others on the set of Hawaii 5-0. God, I was like 7 or so. I know my parents still have a couple of old paintings that Jack painted from way back then.

You know something, it probably was YOU I saw flying rockets there! Hell, that's how I got my start flying rockets a couple of years after that.

Ted Novak TRA#5512 IEAS#75

It could have been, I started flying rockets right after I moved there in

At one time I was the NAR State Deprt. head for Hawaii, and when a new guy came in to run the parks department, he totaly banned model rocketry. So I have a meeting with the Mayor, the CC, and then me and the HonoRocs put on a big demo at the park for the Parts guy, the mayor,CC, the very last flight was a Estes Maxi-burte V2 with an FSI F100 engine for power. We got to fly our mod rockets there again after that. The Honorocs put on 1 meet a year, and I hosted another two myself and did all my normal flying there.

Thanks everyone, for the responses. I had no idea they were so "lightable". I always thought ping pong balls were made of plastic, and that it was just about using the melted plastic like a resin to hold the flammable additive together... a binder of sorts... seemed kind of a funny thing to use.

Now it makes sense.

Cheers!

~ Duane Phillips.

Be careful who you tell, or the BATF may start regulating our balls.

(Ping pong balls, I mean....)

Doesn't the smokeless powder contain nitroglycerin as well?

"Charles P Lamb" wrote in news:IdudnVu8Tev9yIXYnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Ummm,

They are not so lightable. I used straight PP lacquer and you get nary a spark out of them. The modern balls have combustion inhibitors.

The thing with using these is that they are a great base to ADD stuff to like thermite, powdered metals, smokeless powder (that's one I've never heard of) powdered sparklers and get great results with minimal effort.

A nice task to work on in the dead of winter. You can safely test them too with a reasonable indoor area like a garage.

------------------- Yeah, sure...do that...with the emphasis on DEAD. Just another example of how, if the powers that be take all of our 'legally manufactured' items away from us, we will find a way to kill ourselves off one at a time trying stupid stuff we heard about that 'might' work, just cause someone said it will.

I hope you are a hermit, have no family, and live WAAAY out in the country so you don't blow anyone else up when your garage blows a substantial crater into the earth.

Kevin

Have to disagree with you one this one. People have been (and continue to) tinker with chemical concoctions that go pop, bang, or boom for thousands of years. There are hundreds of 'tried and true' formulas that are routinely employed by rocketeers, pyrotechnicians, and backyard geeks across the country.

Now, I'll agree that if someone rushes in blindly, refuses to utilize proper saftey equipment or practices, and believes themselves to be invulnerable, they might well blow themselves up, posion themselves, or burn the house down... but that's simply Darwin in action, and has nothing to do with any level of regulation. But it is through tinkering, experimentation, and repurposing that gains in knowledge are made. Limiting activities to those items that are commerically available or "legally manufactured" means no gains, no new knowledge.

Kevin OClassen

"Against stupidity, the [very] Gods themselves contend in vain." Fredrich von Schiller

And that's EXACTLY what the JBGTs are encouraging. All I can hope is that WHEN it happens, they get dragged thru the muck for causing it like FEMA just did.