White tip matches

I remember shootign them out of a BB gun and having them light up when they hit something
 

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I can buy these at the grocery story.
 
They sort of just exploded when thy hit something and if that something could burn they some times started a fire
 
Thanks, I did a Google search and the only strike anywhere made are the green ones which I know not to buy. I've been using those long neck lighters but they always seem to quit with half the fluid still in them.
 
You could also light them with you thumb nail if you hit the tip of the match just right with your thumb nail
 
I've done it many times. I'd say something else one can do with them but then some one would claim I am making a bomb.
 
They stopped making the white tip Diamond matches they were replaced the "Greenlight ones in Russ from MN post. I use them daily seem to work well. Was told the white tipped ones were discontinued due bad guys using them in drug making . I purchase the Diamond strike anywhere matches a local food store, in my store they are next to strike on box matches , looks the same box except for wording be alert when picking them up, BTDT !
 
I don't know if they are "legal". Probably not, but I'm in Illinois. I have several boxes stored away. I must say - the "strike anywhere" matches of today are NOT like the "strike anywhere" matches of yesterday. I distinctly remember dad swiping a match across his butt and lighting it in the early 50's. It might have been a trick, and if it was I fell for it. Try that with the matches of today. You'll be sorely disappointed.
 
Once in a while the little white chip would come off when doing that. In the worst cases it would break off, light and jamb under the thumb nail. Ouch!
 
About same age that I used the matches in my BB gun, I also discovered what was in black gun powder. And that I could get all the ingredients at the local drug store and/or grocery store. Made a few 'bangs' like that. Thank goodness that was in the 50s. Just great fun then, jail now.
 
Yep sulfur slat peter and charcoal and you had gun powder if you knew the 15% 10% ad 75% and which is which
 

None of the matches we can buy today are comparable to what we used to have. I have several boxes of the "strike anywhere" matches. If I'm lucky, the third match I try MIGHT actually light by striking it on the box. Striking it anywhere else always results in a broken match.
 
I got a bunch of boxes of them.
Most won't strike on anything.
We call them "Strike Nowhere" matches.
Richard in NW SC
 

Hello Old. You just used one of the words that probably got you on a watch list at Langley. I heard after 9-11 that the internet spies at the FIB and CIdiotA do searches for the use of that and other similar words. It's one of those words you don't say out loud when you go through a TStupidA checkpoint at an airport. I'll bet they don't even allow matches on a plane anymore.
 
As a kid, we would wrap small piece of aluminum foil on tip of kitchen match and then put candle under the foil. Matches would take off like rockets. Stupid, yet fun.
 
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I can buy these at the grocery story.

I can buy these same matches in Stater Brothers Markets here in California. I have two boxes of them and don't think I've ever used one. They're probably over ten years old.

Yes! they still work.
 
we would cut the heads off a bunch and place them between 2 pop bottle caps and tape them together. then you throw them on the ground hard , they
would light and make a dandy smoke display .
 
I'm not to worried about something like that since at one time I had top secret cypto clearance which is a very high clearance plus I have never said that the oath I took has expired which it hasn't
 
We used to put them in a crack in a board so they stuck out. Then try to light them with a .22. It can be done but not every shot!
 
(quoted from post at 04:10:51 01/16/21) You could also light them with you thumb nail if you hit the tip of the match just right with your thumb nail

Back when I was a kid in the 40s and 50s there were lots of old timers that did that all the time.......they also "rolled their own".
 
I was an electronics tec. on a U.S. SSBN sub the SSBN633. To do that you had to have a very high top secret clearance which I had.
 
Yes old stuff now. The computers I repaired where as big as the refrigerator that is behind me. Both the SSBN633 and the JFK both or which I was on have long since be cutting up
 
(quoted from post at 18:45:55 01/16/21) Hunter S Thompson used to do that with some pistol he had.

My daughter (12 years old at the time) was a big fan of his. Stopped at the bar he hung out at. Then she wanted to talk to him. Drove to his house and she went to the door. His wife said he didn't want to talk to people and she left.
 
We used to light them on your zipper. The new green ones are not very good. I just use a MAP torch now much easier.
 

Seen a case of strike anywhere matches get dropped from a height . There was a poof of smoke and the case felt rather warm. We carried the case out to the loading dock and let it sit for a few hours .
When opening the case of matches which was approx the size of a box that work boots are shipped in.
We found the case compartmentalized with fire resistant fibre boards/paper . One chamber had ignited and appox 1/2 a dozen boxes of matches had ignited and burned. The fire did not spread to the other compartments.
 

Guess I missed all that fun with matches when I was a kid . Didn't know all this stuff. When I was 7 years old I played with matches in the garage closet and it started a fire. Luckily a neighbor saw the smoke and called the fire department who put it out with only minor damage to the closet in the garage. Learned my lesson and quit playing with matches. I forget if I had my hide tanned with a belt or not.
 
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Guess I missed all that fun with matches when I was a kid . Didn't know all this stuff. When I was 7 years old I played with matches in the garage closet and it started a fire. Luckily a neighbor saw the smoke and called the fire department who put it out with only minor damage to the closet in the garage. Learned my lesson and quit playing with matches. I forget if I had my hide tanned with a belt or not.

When I was a kid, we made match shooters. We would take a large empty thread spool and put a wide heavy rubber band length so it covered the hole only on one end then wrap rubber bands around the spool to hold that one in place. We'd stick a match through the open end and pull it back by the rubber band and let go to shoot it at any hard surface to light it up.

Being a kid in my days was fun and mostly we never got hurt doing crazy stuff or burned anything down.
 
These were a lot of fun, I would throw them like a dart onto the sidewalk, pop and it lit up just about every time ! .22 hand pump pellet pistol, same thing on a brick wall. Fingernail, zipper, tooth, and so on, yes you had best be aware of the chard that sometimes flew off. They definitely changed the "ther - mite" material, not as volatile and now the darned things break in half before they even light up. Even the strike on box seem to break more than not. The dot matriz sand paper on the box is terrible compared to the straight solid band they always used. Maybe the dot matrix striking surface lowers the cost for them, sure don't work like they did years ago. Just like new safety fuel cans, kind of a joke.
 

I had a friend in 4th grade who had a box of .22 bullets. We would sit down on the sidewalk, lay a .22 down and hit the rim end with a hammer. They went off but we didn't know where. Then we would throw a few in a burning trash barrel. Would here the pop, pop, pop but never heard any bullets hitting the side of the barrel or go through it. One of those dumb things I wouldn't recommend to anyone. Had some friends in western KS who played war with real .22 rifles. That ended when one ended up a paraplegic. They were all of a German heritage so maybe they played war different than the rest of us.
 

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