Wtf was in those grenades all those years?

[BrickHaus]

I'm cleaning up my hoarder hole this weekend, and I just went to move this grenade that has to be old enough to vote. I got this in a lot about 16 years ago, and it was semi dried out then squishy, but shriveled. I hung it on my wall and haven't looked st it since.

Today I picked it up and it was rock hard and felt like it had aggregate inside. I had to cut it open.


It looks like powdered laundry detergent and asbestos.. or fiber glass. Figured you would find it interesting

[Fossilhead]

😆

[coyote]

The ones that went "boom" had baking soda and vinegar in them.

Lockdown called them "douchebangs".

[Painthappy]

Now that's a science experiment!

[Ecapnation]

I recall the Tippmann ones using milk powder for some reason

[The Hobbit]

I recall the Tippmann ones using milk powder for some reason

That looks like the old tippmann ones from back in the day.

[$L!mBo]

looks like it works way better like this

[Psycho91]

You had to throw these like a major league pitcher and hoped they went off, iv thrown some point blank at trees and all they did was bounce off, they were essentially a rubber tube filled with paint and sealed off with bbs, the bbs would rust and the paint would dry around them and they were hard as hell to get them to go off at that point, or they would explode as soon as you threw it and you'd get your self out lol

[Snowpuff]

Still good as new