Title: MacReady's SIMPLE explosives, need this file for the rest. R.J. Date: 2/7/88 Time: 11:47 am R. J. MacReady's pyrotechnic experiments. File #1. Written January 15th, 1988. Have fun! These devices aren't of the chemical nature, so they should be hard for anyone to build. They are also the kinds of devices which can be improved by simply making them bigger. Simple mine: This is where it all started. The simple land mine is used in other MacReady devices. The device itself isn't complicated, but takes patience to make it work well. Materials: Film Cannister (or Folger's Coffee can if you wanna blow away the block) Packs of matches (17 fill a film cannister). Patience. First, take the lid of the cannister or can, etc. and cut a square hole in the lid the width of the striking strip on a book of matches (about 5mm). Next, cut 4 striker strips off the matchbooks. With these you must make a "box". You might want to leave an extra millimeter of cardboard on the edge of the strips, and bend them so you can glue the edges of each strip together. Because it's hard to glue just edges together. Form the box around a pencil or something, so you can have support when gluing it. Make sure the whole inside of the box is the brimstone side of the strips. What it will look like when it's made is a 3cm long hollow box, with the ends open. You then push this box halfway through the lid with the hole in it. Now cut the joint edges of the box only on the top side of the lid, so you can fold these sides down to the lid, to hold it better. It now will look like a lid, will a cross of cardboard on the top side, and on the underside, the rest of the box is sticking out. Next cut your match heads off and fill the cannister. Then, take 2 or 3 matches, tape them together tightly, and insert them Carefully in the "box" from the top side of the lid. MAKE SURE they fit snuggly, otherwise they'll slip about and won't strike the insides of the box and therefore light everything else. Finally, put the lid on, and tape the son a bitch up as much as possible, over the lid as well. Bury the whole thing in the ground so just the "button" (the 2 or 3 matches, which are about half way into the box) are sticking above ground. And when someone steps on it, BOOM! Of course with a film cannister, the explosion isn't too big, but if you had a Godamn coffee can, you could blow someones foot off. Or a 2 litre pop bottle, using the cap in place of the lid!! Look for other files dealing with this subject, written by R. J. MacReady. P.S. Leave messages in Scavenger Hunts Anarchy message sections!