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Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: MattAnonymous on June 08, 2004, 10:27:07 PM
Not to sound psycho, but I've seen so many shows and movies where a bomb is defused.  It appears to me that someone with a decent amount of knowledge of electronics could easily cut the power.  Just wondering.
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: phillip on June 08, 2004, 10:37:11 PM
Sure...just cut the red wire...and hope the bomb builder wasn't color blind ;)

Phillip
Title: eenie meenie
Post by: petemoore on June 08, 2004, 10:45:32 PM
eenie, meenie, miney, Moe's.
 Wait a minute, Moe's not here...when'll they ever institute a common color coding for these devices...sheeezz, who engineered THIS Thing , anyway/What's YOUR favorite color?
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Kilby on June 08, 2004, 10:54:25 PM
Personally I would use the real world solution of "disruption".
Either a small explosion (close to the device) or a shotgun blast where the preferred method until about 10 years ago.

Nowadays they tend to use a very high pressure water jet to try and shatter the suspected bomb.

Of course I would also be using one of those fancy dandy robots (called wheelbarrows by the guys who use them) as I am also too smart to get close to one of those things intentionally. Though I have been too close for my liking on more than one occasion (through accident not design) :(

Rob...
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Peter Snowberg on June 09, 2004, 01:51:03 AM
As long as you could see a cap with two wires coming out it would be pretty easy to do, but I would tend to run in the opposite direction without touching it unless I had to diffuse it to escape.  

Take care,
-Peter
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Fret Wire on June 09, 2004, 02:01:42 AM
First, read debugging FAQ at GEO.....no..that's not it....

Got it!  Send in Boy George and Michael Jackson, with hard hats and Radio Shack wire cutters :twisted:

KA-BOOOOM!!!! :shock:
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Paul Perry (Frostwave) on June 09, 2004, 02:09:38 AM
I've got news for anyone getting their bomb defusing knowledge from movies.. there isn't usually a big LED clock showing the countdown  :D
Title: These days
Post by: petemoore on June 09, 2004, 02:26:55 AM
If you want something blown up, you blow it up :evil:  What's use would a long timer that could be disabled be?
 Only good use is for a silly suspense angle in movies and TV exploits.
Title: Re: These days
Post by: Brian Marshall on June 09, 2004, 02:38:11 AM
Quote from: petemooreIf you want something blown up, you blow it up :evil:  What's use would a long timer that could be disabled be?
 Only good use is for a silly suspense angle in movies and TV exploits.

ive made lots of bombs....

sometimes i wonder why im still alive.

It is funny to go to the hardware store, and buy three 4 inch threaded pipes, 6 endcaps, a block of parafin wax, and a drill bit.  Damn these days they would shoot you on the spot.

we stole gun powder from my dad who at one point was in to reloading ammo, but had long forgotten it.  the thing that was really scarry was the gun powder was a few years old, and in theory could have been a little unstable.

we got 50 feet of cannon fuse from the army surplus store, and actually told the guy what we were using it for the next time we saw him.

He laughed.

those bombs were easy to difuse..... pull the fuse :D

now if it were an electronic bomb, maybe.... could i get a scheamtic???????  Please?????

ahhhhhhhh (BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM)
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: aron on June 09, 2004, 03:30:58 AM
Everyone knows the answer to this one. You see it in the movies.

There's a red and blue (or other color), choose the red, no, the blue, yes the red and SWEAT!!!!

Then cut the red. :roll:
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: crawler486 on June 09, 2004, 03:46:09 AM
Aron's Stompbox Forum is now being marked by the feds.
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Hal on June 09, 2004, 10:38:46 AM
quick!  We need a bucket brigade to put out the fire!  e-mail steve stat!

Oh-no!  Out of them?

AAAHHHHHH!!
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Bill Bergman on June 09, 2004, 10:43:10 AM
Shoot the person wearing it.
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Fret Wire on June 09, 2004, 10:54:04 AM
Pray that Mike Fuller didn't build it.....because then, all the circuitry would be covered in goop so no one could clone the bomb. News flash...epoxy shrapnel rained down over a 30 mile radius as police detonated the Fullbomb 90'.
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Torchy on June 09, 2004, 11:01:22 AM
Dear Mike

  Please supply me with the schematic to your FullBomb 90, as my dog has poured his beer thru the input jack. The beer has not only removed the pcb traces but also removed the component values, so the scematic should contain these. Whilst trying to defuse (damn) rebuild the FullBomb I also need advice on tube bisassing, type of caps and gain matching to erm return it to its original condition.

  Yours
     The Bomb Squad
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Fret Wire on June 09, 2004, 11:03:00 AM
:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: davebungo on June 09, 2004, 11:09:52 AM
How long have you got?
Title: By
Post by: petemoore on June 09, 2004, 11:29:01 AM
Bycycle tubing, gunpowder from disassembled firecrackers, a big first fuse, with a cigarette fuse/timer.
 I consider myself to have extreme luck, as I'm able to type this with my fingers.
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Rich G. on June 09, 2004, 01:48:23 PM
Since this is OT, I'll add to the chaos with a true story from my home town last week... keep in mind I live in the town where the pizza delivery bomber struck last year.

A suspicious black bag was found near the town reservior where a man had been lurking.  Police were called in, then Hazmat and the Bomb Squad.  The area was secured and traffic diverted.  The Bomb Squad in full protective gear moves in.  They investigate the bag.  In the bag was the underwear of some guy who had crapped his pants and was trying to hide them.  His keys were also in the bag by mistake.  They apprehended the perp and arrested him for tresspassing.
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Fret Wire on June 09, 2004, 01:53:14 PM
Now that would be some nasty shrapnel :cry:  :cry:
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: MattAnonymous on June 09, 2004, 02:41:01 PM
Quote from: Fret WireNow that would be some nasty shrapnel :cry:  :cry:
I believe you mean crapnel :wink:
Thanks guys, I sorta got an answer I guess.  Answer:  Bombs are dangerous, avoid them at all costs :!:
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: gez on June 09, 2004, 02:48:04 PM
Rich, I made a 'bomb' like that when I was ten on some beach in Cornwall.  Managed to bundle things up (swimming trunks) and took a whole sling-shot full down to the sea for disposal.  I was so pleased with myself that nobody had caught on as I (slowly) waded in, only to find, as I looked down, the back of my legs caked in the stuff... :oops:
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Fret Wire on June 09, 2004, 02:50:45 PM
Seriously, You always hear about the "bomb making books" (Poor Man's James Bond, Anarchist's Cookbook, etc.). What you don't hear about, is how many people have been maimed, injured, or killed just trying to make the "projects". There's the "kid" in all of us that wants to "blow something up" for fun, but incindiary devices are even worse than firearms or power tools, in that if you don't treat them with the utmost respect, you'll pay dearly, perhaps with your life.
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: punkaled on June 09, 2004, 06:40:11 PM
yeah, in fact i remeber reading somewhere that the guys who origanally wrote the anarchists cookbook had never themselves actually tried any of the things in the book.
Just glancing at some of the things in the book, you would have to be nuts to try em (or stupid), like "how to make plastic explosive" on your stove at home, hmm, cooking plastic explosive on my stove? no thanks.
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: niftydog on June 09, 2004, 07:04:21 PM
cutting the power is all well and good... as long as the power isn't holding a NC relay OPEN!

There's plenty of ways to fool a potential bomb defuser.  I don't think I'll be trying it anytime soon, despite my electronics knowledge!

Oldy, but a goody;

(http://niftydog.actewagl.net.au/bomb%5B1%5D.jpg)
Title: OT How many of you guys could defuse a bomb?
Post by: Gilles C on June 10, 2004, 08:10:10 AM
You remind me of a time when I was taking a lot of pictures of my brother-in-law and his band when he was playing Genesis and the likes.

I was on the stage in front of him, trying to stay low profile.

While trying to get a nice shot, I kind of almost laid on my back in front of him.

I then noticed he was doing signs with his right hand, trying to tell something to the light(effect)man... I was laying on a metal box with some magnesium in it, and 2 wires to ignite the magnesium  :oops:

If I remember well, the following song was "Turn it on again", and there was some pyro at the beginning of the song...

Ah... souvenirs  8)