Make a Smoke Bomb out of Ping Pong Balls
This article will show you how to make a cheap smoke bomb out of ping pong balls in just a few minutes. Be warned that ping pong smoke bombs emit toxic fumes that should only be burned outside away from people and pets.
Steps
Using Many Balls
- Buy some ping pong balls, you will need at least two for each bomb.
- Use a knife to cut one of the balls to shreds. If you use more shreds, then your smoke will last longer.
- Cut a small hole in the other ball big enough to put the pieces from the first ball in.
- Wrap it in a few layers of foil but leave the hole open. Make additional small holes on the sides so the smoke will go in all directions.
- If you have a fuse put that in the hole; if not then then drop an unlit match in instead.
- Read the tips and the warnings below before lighting it.
Using One Ball
- As above, Buy a ping pong ball. for this, you only need one ball.
- Wrap the ball in tin foil, but leave a chimney from the top, leading to the ball, and have it big enough so you could reach down and touch it with your finger. a good way to do this is wrap the ball, and use the foil at the top to wrap around your finger
- Pour some match heads into the ball and twist the tin foil.
- Heat the bottom of the bomb, near the ball until you hear a hiss, and it begins smoking.
- Get away, the smoke smells bad and will make you smell bad, and it's toxic.
Tips
- For method 2: If you do not get away from the gas, it will leave you smelling like the gas, which smells very bad.
- It turns out that burning ping pong balls produce a flammable gas and if you put lit matches in it, the fire will light the gas. So it might make flames shoot out of the hole. Good idea: Don't put match heads all the way in the hole.
- The smoke bomb, is not to be used as a weapon, it's a waste of ping pong balls.
Warnings
- Do not inhale the smoke, it is POISONOUS and might make you faint and get sick.
- If you do try to make the flame, make sure you have hose or fire extinguisher ready.
- And last of all do not use one of these in a small space it will make it stink for weeks and it emits a poisonous gas.
- Don't burn yourself!
- Do this outside away from people, pets, or anything flammable.
