Why would you buy an expensive one for this purpose?

Article headline: Malaysian cops looking for seller of red alarm clocks

Picture in article directly under headline:


Fail.

I read that as "attaches them to their boobs"

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Thank you.

I feel better now.

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What an alarm clock may look like.

A RED alarm clock, no less.

Rich Cream: The devices were made from simple materials, including a PVC pipe, an alarm clock, ball bearings, wires and batteries. The cost of one such device is about RM20 (S$8).


I'll make that bomb for $7.00!

I'll take two, please.

Sock Ruh Tease: Does that clock say OBAWA in the middle?!

It's all Obawa's fault!

cantsleep: Grables'Daughter: Rich Cream: The devices were made from simple materials, including a PVC pipe, an alarm clock, ball bearings, wires and batteries. The cost of one such device is about RM20 (S$8).


I'll make that bomb for $7.00!

I'll take two, please.

You just made a watch list.

That's okay, I like to be watched.

Sock Ruh Tease: Does that clock say OBAWA in the middle?!

Hey, as Presidents go, Obama is DA BOMB, yo

Dracolich: You set the amount of time until it goes off and you reroute the power for the beeping noise to your ignition.

Or just buy a delay-on-make relay. They're like $2 and come with easy-to-access terminals so you don't have to try to peel off the surface-mount piezo driver. And you can drive whatever voltage/current through it you like, so you don't need to guess and hope that the timer's circuitry will supply the power you need.

A kitchen timer would probably work, I'm just saying, there are readily available parts for this sort of electronics design. That you could buy by the thousands without suspicion. Why hassle with disassembling something else?

/ Obviously this does not apply to MacGyver-like situations

Dracolich: Electric beeping kitchen timers are great. You set the amount of time until it goes off and you reroute the power for the beeping noise to your ignition. The voltage for the beeping needs to be much higher for you to hear it, so it already has to have a little capacitor built in. Coincidentally, that higher voltage is also desirable if you wish to create a spark. It doesn't have to be used for a bomb, but it's ridiculous how much synergy there really is.

Use of word "synergy". Five yard penalty.

In the Don Johnson movie The Hot Spot (1990) (with a very sexy Jennifer Connelly), he used a few of them as incendiary device timers.

And Virginia Madsen. How did I not see this movie?

But classy!

This isn't too portable but you could probably pack a lot of explosives in it...