The Anarchist Cookbook (75 page)

mark of bell systems) to open locks or disarm alarms. Most use three or four digits. To

figure out the code, wipe the key-pad free from all fingerprints by using a rag soaked in

rubbing alcohol. After the keypad has been used just apply finger print dust and all four

digits will be marked. now all you have to do is figure out the order. If you want to have

some fun with a keypad, try pressing the * and # at the same time. Many units use this as

a panic button. This will bring the owner and the cops running and ever-one will have a good

time. Never try to remove these panels from the wall, as they have built-in tamper

switches.

On the subject of holdups, most places (including supermarkets, liquor stores, etc.) have

what is known as a money clip. These little nasties are placed at the bottom of a money

drawer and when the last few bills are with-drawn a switch closes and sets the alarm off.

That's why when you make your withdrawal it's best to help yourself so you can check for

these little nasties. If you find them, merely insert ones underneath the pile of twenties,

and then pull out the twenties, leaving the one-dollar bill behind to prevent the circuit

from closing.

SOFT DRINK CAN BOMB

AN ARTICLE FROM THE BOOK:

THE POOR MAN'S JAMES BOND BY KURT SAXON

This is an anti-personnel bomb meant for milling crowds. The bottom of a soft drink can is

half cut out and bent back. A giant firecracker or other explosive is put in and surrounded

with nuts and bolts or rocks. The fuse is then armed with a chemical delay in a plastic

drinking straw.

After first making sure there are no children nearby, the acid or glycerine is put into the

straw and the can is set down by a tree or wall where it will not be knocked over. The

delay should give you three to five minutes. It will then have a shattering effect on

passersby.

It is hardly likely that anyone would pick up and drink from someone else's soft drink can.

but if such a crude person should try to drink from your bomb he would break a nasty

habit fast!

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!* ! ! "!

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! ! ! !<- BIG FIRECRACKER

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! ! ! <- NUTS & BOLTS

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Pyro Book II

by Capt Hack and Grey Wolf

TIME DELAYED CHEMICAL FUSE

Put 1 teaspoon full of potassium permanganate in a tin can.

Add a few drops of glycerine.

Wait 3-4 min.

Get the hell out. The stuff will smoke, then burst into flames.

Potassium permanganate stains like iodine but worse [it's purple]. The reaction will spatter

a bit so it can be messy and it doesn't matter if the amounts are uneven [i.e. 1 part to 3

parts]

EXPLOSIVES AND INCENDIARIES by THE RESEARCHER

INTRODUCTION:

The trouble with text books on chemistry and explosives is the attitude with which they

are written. They don't say, "Now I know you would like to blow holy hell out of something

just for the fun of it so here is how to whip up something in your kitchen to do it". They

tell you how Dupont does it or how the ancient Chinese did it but not how you can do it

with the resources and materials available to you.

Even army manuals on field expedient explosives are almost useless because they are just

outlines written with the understanding that an instructor is going to fill in the blanks. It

is a fun game to search out the materials that can be put together to make something go

"boom". You can find what you need in grocery stores, hardware stores, and farm supplies.

An interesting point to remember is that it is much easier to make a big e explosion than a

small one. It is very difficult for a home experimenter to make a firecracker, but a bomb

capable of blowing the walls out of a building is easy.

HOW TO MAKE ROCKET FUEL

This is easy to make and fun to play with. Mix equal parts by volume Potassium or Sodium

Nitrate and granulated sugar. Pour a big spoonful of this into a pile. Stick a piece of

blackmatch fuse into it; light; and step back. This is also a very hot incendiary. A little

imagination will suggest a lot of experiments for this.

ANOTHER ROCKET FUEL

Mix equal parts by volume of zinc dust and sulfur. Watch out if you experiment with this.

It goes off in a sudden flash. It is not a powerful explosive, but is violent stuff even when

not confined because of its fast burning rate.

As I continue from this point some of the ingredients are going to be harder to get

without going through a chemical supply. I try to avoid this. I happen to know that B.

Prieser Scientific (local to my area) has been instructed by the police to send them the

names of anyone buying chemicals in certain combinations. For example, if a person were to

buy Sulfuric acid, Nitric acid and Toluene (the makings for TNT) in one order the police

would be notified. I will do the best I can to tell you how to make the things you need

from commonly available materials, but I don't want to leave out something really good

because you might have to scrounge for an ingredient. I am guessing you would prefer it

that way.

HOW TO MAKE AN EXPLOSIVE FROM COMMON MATCHES

Pinch the head near the bottom with a pair of wire cutters to break it up; then use the

edges of the cutters to scrape off the loose material. It gets easy with practice. You can

do this while watching TV and collect enough for a bomb without dying of boredom.

Once you have a good batch of it, you can load it into a pipe instead of black powder. Be

careful not to get any in the threads, and wipe off any that gets on the end of the pipe.

Never try to use this stuff for rocket fuel. A science teacher was killed that way.

Just for fun while I'm on the subject of matches, did you know that you can strike a

safety match on a window pane? Hold a paper match between your thumb and first finger.

With your second finger, press the head firmly against a large window. Very quickly, rub

the match down the pane about 2 feet while maintaining the pressure. The friction will

generate enough heat to light the match.

Another fun trick is the match rocket. Tightly wrap the top half of a paper match with

foil. Set it in the top of a pop bottle at a 45 ø angle. Hold a lighted match under the head

until it ignites. If you got it right, the match will zip up and hit the ceiling.

I just remembered the match guns I used to make when I was a kid. These are made from

a bicycle spoke. At one end of the spoke is a piece that screws off. Take it off and screw

it on backwards. You now have a piece of stiff wire with a small hollow tube on one end.

Pack the material from a couple of wooden safety matches into the tube. Force the stem

of a match into the hole. It should fit very tightly. Hold a lighted match under the tube

until it gets hot enough to ignite the powder. It goes off with a bang.

HOW TO MAKE CONCENTRATED SULFURIC ACID FROM BATTERY ACID

Go to an auto supply store and ask for "a small battery acid". This should only cost a few

dollars. What you will get is about a gallon of dilute sulfuric acid. Put a pint of this into a

heat resistant glass container. The glass pitchers used for making coffee are perfect. Do

not use a metal container.

Use an extension cord to set up a hotplate out doors. Boil the acid until white fumes

appear. As soon as you see the white fumes, turn off the hot plate and let the acid cool.

Pour the now concentrated acid into a glass container. The container must have a glass

stopper or plastic cap -- no metal. It must be air tight. Otherwise, the acid will quickly

absorb moisture from the air and become diluted. Want to know how to make a time bomb

that doesn't tick and has no wires or batteries? Hold on to your acid and follow me into

the next installment.

HOW TO MAKE A CHEMICAL TIME DELAY FUSE:

To get an understanding of how this is going to work, mix up equal parts by volume

Potassium chlorate and granulated sugar. Pour a spoonful of the mixture in a small pile and

make a depression in the top with the end of a spoon. Using a medicine dropper, place one

drop of concentrated sulfuric acid in the depression and step back.

It will snap and crackle a few times and then burst into vigorous flames. To make the fuse,

cut about 2 inches off a plastic drinking straw. Tamp a small piece of cotton in one end. On

top of this put about an inch of the clorate/sugar mixture.

Now lightly tamp in about a quarter inch of either glass wool or asbestos fibers. Secure

this with the open end up and drop in 3 or 4 drops of sulfuric acid. After a few minutes

the acid will soak through the fibers and ignite the mixture.

The time delay can be controlled by the amount of fiber used and by varying how tightly it

is packed. Don't use cotton for this. The acid will react with cotton and become weakened

in the process. By punching a hole in the side of the straw, a piece of blackmatch or other

fuse can be inserted and used to set off the device of your choice.

Potassium chlorate was very popular with the radical underground. It can be used to make

a wide variety of explosives and incendiaries, some of them extremely dangerous to handle.

The radicals lost several people that way. But, don't worry. I am not going to try to

protect you from yourself. I have decided to tell all. I will have more to say about

Potassium chlorate, but for now, let's look at a couple of interesting electric fuses.

PEROXYACETONE

PEROXYACETONE IS EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE AND HAS BEEN REPORTED TO BE

SHOCK SENSITIVE

MATERIALS:



4 mL Acetone



4 mL 30% Hydrogen Peroxide

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4 drops Conc. Hydrochloric Acid

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150 mm Test Tube

Add 4 mL acetone and 4 mL hydrogen peroxide to the test tube. Then add 4 drops

concentrated hydrochloric acid. In 10-20 minutes a white solid should begin to appear. If

no change is observed, warm the test tube in a water bath at 40øC. Allow the reaction to

continue for two hours. Swirl the slurry and filter it. Leave out on filter paper to dry for

at least two hours. To ignite, light a candle tied to a meter stick and light it (while staying

at least a meter away).

I would like to give credit to a book by shakashari entitled "Chemical demonstrations" for

a few of the precise amounts of chemicals in some experiments.

THE CHEMIST'S CORNER #2:

HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS, BY ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX/MPG

This article deals with instructions on how to do some interesting experiments with

common household chemicals. Some may or may not work depending on the concentration of

certain chemicals in different areas and brands. I would suggest that the person doing

these experiments have some knowledge of chemistry, especially for the more dangerous

experiments.

I am not responsible for any injury or damage caused by people using this information. It is

provided for use by people knowledgeable in chemistry who are interested in such

experiments and can safely handle such experiments.

I. A LIST OF HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS AND THEIR COMPOSITION

VINEGAR: 3-5% ACETIC ACID BAKING SODA: SODIUM BICARBONATE

DRAIN CLEANERS: SODIUM HYDROXIDE SANI-FLUSH: 75% SODIUM BISULFATE

AMMONIA WATER: AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE CITRUS FRUIT: CITRIC ACID

TABLE SALT: SODIUM CHLORIDE SUGAR: SUCROSE

MILK OF MAGNESIA: MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE TINCTURE OF IODINE: 4% IODINE

RUBBING ALCOHOL: 70% OR 99% (DEPENDS ON BRAND) ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL (DO

NOT DRINK!)

GENERATING CHLORINE GAS

This is slightly more dangerous than the other two experiments, so you should know what

you're doing before you try this...

Ever wonder why ammonia bottles always say 'do not mix with chlorine bleach', and visa-

versa? That's because if you mix ammonia water with Ajax or something like it, it will give

off chlorine gas. To capture it, get a large bottle and put Ajax in the bottom. Then pour

some ammonia down into the bottle. Since the chlorine is heavier than air, it will stay down

in there unless you use large amounts of either Ajax or ammonia (don't!).

CHLORINE + TURPENTINE

Take a small cloth or rag and soak it in turpentine. Quickly drop it into the bottle of

chlorine. It should give off a lot of black smoke and probably start burning...

GENERATING HYDROGEN GAS

To generate hydrogen, all you need is an acid and a metal that will react with that acid.

Try vinegar (acetic acid) with zinc, aluminum, magnesium, etc. You can collect hydrogen in

something if you note that it is lighter than air.... light a small amount and it burns with a

small *pop*.

Another way of creating hydrogen is by the electrolysis of water. This involve separating

water (H2O) into hydrogen and oxygen by an electric current. To do this, you need a 6-12

volt battery (or a DC transformer), two test tubes, a large bowl, two carbon electrodes