How the hell could you make a lamp with a 20 mm?

joshzsmith: How the hell could you make a lamp with a 20 mm?

Easily with some holes. Lamps aren't rocket science.

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He loves lamp

joshzsmith
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The way the old guy did it, it only lights up once tho'.

Boatmech: joshzsmith
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The way the old guy did it, it only lights up once tho'.

That's a pretty nifty looking lamp, but I thought a 20 mm would be a bit smaller. Was thinking about the length of a hand.

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He's nearly old enough to be killed by a WWII shell during WWII.

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The way the old guy did it, it only lights up once tho'.

That's a pretty nifty looking lamp, but I thought a 20 mm would be a bit smaller. Was thinking about the length of a hand.

Yeah a 2cm wide shell isn't exactly lamp sized. A nightlight perhaps?

GIS for "groin lamp" turned up this future classic.

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The way the old guy did it, it only lights up once tho'.

That's a pretty nifty looking lamp, but I thought a 20 mm would be a bit smaller. Was thinking about the length of a hand.

20mm only tells you the width of the round it self, not the width or length of the casing. The article doesn't bother to mention which particular type of 20mm ammo and indeed there may not be enough left to make it immediately identifiable. They do say they think it was left over from WW2 but they don't say from what country so that doesn't narrow it down much. We could be talking anything from a 20x72 to a 20x138.

Given that this was in the US my best guess is a 20x110mm since those were used by the US Navy. From the fact that he went to a hospital in an ambulance rather than to the morgue in buckets I'm guessing it was an armor piercing round rather than a high explosive one.

doglover: joshzsmith: How the hell could you make a lamp with a 20 mm?

Easily with some holes. Lamps aren't rocket science.

A 20mm shell is only slightly larger than a .50 BMG, which are ~13mm.

Forgot the picture.

Lamp: N. A device for giving light.

Technically he did make a lamp, and I am happy for him.

/Follow YOUR dream . . .

I used to have a lamp made from a training mortar, key point being it was filled with sand not explosives.

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Use one of these for the element?
/not finding the right pic, but these are close.

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I've actually had to tell people to not do this..once it was a pineapple grenade.

Just came to say that a 20mm isn't artillery.
It's the equivalent of calling a single firework a "bomb."

Damn reporters.

"I can hear the .22LR firing! Iiiiiincomiiiiiiiiiiiing!" *ducks and covers*

Hacker_X: rather than to the morgue in buckets

I lol'd at this.

So, success?

Boatmech: joshzsmith
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The way the old guy did it, it only lights up once tho'.

Looks like a 75MM to me.

Hacker_X: joshzsmith: Boatmech: joshzsmith
From the fact that he went to a hospital in an ambulance rather than to the morgue in buckets I'm guessing it was an armor piercing round rather than a high explosive one.

The retard drilled into a round with powder still in it. He ignited the gunpowder, not the projectile.

How to tell: Look at the primer. If there is not an indentation in it then you are probably holding a LIVE auto-cannon round.

This story reminds me of this guy.

Calling Mr Darwin, Mr Darwin to the white courtesy phone.

cajunns: i see that Darwin is active again,and here i thought he was dead

Darwin is dead. This guy somehow is not.

Chief_ Danz153A: Just came to say that a 20mm isn't artillery.
It's the equivalent of calling a single firework a "bomb."

Damn reporters.

"I can hear the .22LR firing! Iiiiiincomiiiiiiiiiiiing!" *ducks and covers*

Well, kinda. 20mm is often regarded as part of a group of ordnance in the catagory of "AAA" - Anti Aircraft Artillery.

I think that lamp up above is pretty cool looking. Being a recoiless rifle case, they didn't even have to drill the holes!

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The way the old guy did it, it only lights up once tho'.

sjcousins: joshzsmith: Boatmech: joshzsmith
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The way the old guy did it, it only lights up once tho'.

That's a pretty nifty looking lamp, but I thought a 20 mm would be a bit smaller. Was thinking about the length of a hand.

Yeah a 2cm wide shell isn't exactly lamp sized. A nightlight perhaps?

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More like a special gift for his wife.

Darwin: I missed him by this much.

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He's 73, a III and there's probably a IV and V, so no Darwin Award in all likelihood.

Deathfrogg:
More like a special gift for his wife.

You farking beat me to the dildo/vibrator joke... Well played, dick

"underaspreadingchestnuttree" PING! "thevillagesmithystands" PING! "thesmithamightymanishe" PING! "withlargeandsinewy...hands?" BOOM!

blockbuster bombs don't go off unless you hit them juuuuust right

He's nearly old enough to be killed by a WWII shell during WWII.

Math is hard.

Yeah, he *is* old enough to have been killed by a WW2 shell during WW2.

/unless "math is hard" is implying that only soldiers could be killed by artillery
//20mm artillery? Was that for invading Lilliput?

Turbo Cojones: Hacker_X: joshzsmith: Boatmech: joshzsmith
From the fact that he went to a hospital in an ambulance rather than to the morgue in buckets I'm guessing it was an armor piercing round rather than a high explosive one.

The retard drilled into a round with powder still in it. He ignited the gunpowder, not the projectile.

How to tell: Look at the primer. If there is not an indentation in it then you are probably holding a LIVE auto-cannon round.

We don't know where he drilled into the thing. If he managed to set off all the powder (with or without the help of the primer) and it had been a HE round I'm sure he would have found a way for that to go off too. The guy obviously wasn't a munitions expert or he wouldn't have been drilling into a live round.

I hope the kid that tried this same thing in my uncle's woodshop class, calls my uncle up and thank him for stopping his stupidity. The kid snuck the round into class because he didn't have his own drill at home.

Find a retired woodshop teacher and you will have a day of stupid stories that will keep you lol-ing for years.