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Information on pipe bombs should not be available on the net. Too many nuts out there wanting to destroy something. let's not make it easy for them. 68.53.152.16 01:44, 19 September 2003 (UTC)
21:52, 27 December 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.77.199.79 ( talk)
My mother always kinda laughs over this fuss about learning bomb stuff on the Internet - the mixing, handling, and use of simple low explosives were part of her high school chemistry book in the late '50s! 142.177.19.218 04:36, 14 April 2004 (UTC)
"The manufacture of a pipe bomb is a serious criminal offence, even if experimentation is the only intent."
This needs to be clarified. In which countries is it a serious criminal offence? I can't believe it's a crime everywhere. (very few things are) Theresa Knott (Tart, knees hot) 01:17, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
For U.S. law on bombs see Destructive device. -- Naaman Brown ( talk) 09:34, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Thought you might like a point of view from a Bomb Technicians' perspective.... In my humble opinion, you should have the term 'pipe bomb' included in your dictionary. Pipe bombs can and do injure many, killing some. The ease with which they are constructed, and the potential for injury make them frequently appear in news articles. Therefore, defining the term is a reasonable action for those who may be unfamiliar. Detailed descriptions, method of assembly, uses, are NOT reasonable. YES, they are described in sickening detail at many other websites. The key here is that those websites are not know for their veracity. Wiki is. Therefore, design data presented here adds credibility. It is not necessary to elucidate on this topic, simply to present it for what it is. In the US, recent legislation makes it a criminal offense to teach others how to build explosive devices. The potential for negative publicity is great. Or, consider this. What happens if a child builds a device based off of design information contained here, subsequently injuring himself or others? I am against the inhibition of information, but I feel that some information is best presented by certain sources. An encyclopedia / dictionary isn't the place for bomb-building info. -Shawn Shawn Hughes 19:18, 11 December 2004 (UTC)
Three Things: 1. Wikipedia is not censored. 2. Natural selection is a beautiful thing. 3. Security thought obscurity never worked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.163.236 ( talk) 11:24, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
"The use of match heads and black powder as filler is to be avoided" I don´t like the sound of that sentence ... 83.248.143.171 03:59, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Salina Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield tells KSAL News that an item that resembled a pipe bomb was discovered at around 11:30 in the morning in the south end of Sunset Park by a City of Salina employee. Officers blocked off all entrances to the park, and evacuated several homes in the area. The Fort Riley Bomb Disposal Team responded to the scene, as did federal ATF agents, along with an ambulance from the Salina Fire Department. The bomb squad from Fort Riley arrived by mid-afternoon. They ended up remotely detonating three different charges before they disabled the bomb at around 4:30. There were no injuries. Mansfield says that the area is now being treated as a crime scene, and Salina Police have started an investigation. 68.103.129.157 02:53, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Steel pipe and PVC pipe aren't the only raw materials available for fashioning I.E.D.'s. Those large 1000 count pill bottles used together with smaller pill bottles have good 'bangability' when the smaller of the two is charged, fused, and inserted into the larger one surrounded with an effective 'packing'[sand, body filler, etc.]. Body filler or fiberglass [the stronger of the two] is a more creative approach to the I.E.D. because of the infinite design possibilities of your sculpture. Say the classic spherical black cannon ball with fuse at the top. Or maybe a likeness of your ex-girlfriend. If your gonna have a bang, might as well be a little creative with it, eh?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.144.201.78 ( talk) 04:36, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
"Premature detonation is a hazard of attempting to construct any homemade bomb, and the materials and methods used with pipe bombs make unintentional detonation incidents common, usually resulting in serious injury or death to the assembler." this is just FUD and should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kermit2 ( talk • contribs) 00:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
There is a series of four FBI pipe bomb photos here that would aid the article. If you have the time, please add them to the article. Suntag ( talk) 01:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
But in other references they are still considered pipe bombs, so if this statement is true, then what are bombs made from PVC pipe considered then? 122.53.244.251 ( talk) 03:38, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I mean, come on! Someone watching Deep Blue Sea could easily identify what the characters are rigging up. Someone playing Left 4 Dead could easily tell what one of their weapons is. Couldn't these trivia be mentioned in their respective articles, with a link somewhere to pipe bomb? If someone wants to know where pipe bombs have been found in pop culture, couldn't they just click "What links here" in the sidebar? Palladmial ( talk) 20:15, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Other sources say the device hurled from the Tsarnaev escape SUV was a pressure cooker bomb, not a pipe bomb; this needs to be confirmed with better sources, perhaps after trial materials have been made public. -- Beland ( talk) 17:42, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
They can also fail if the pipe is fully sealed and the chemical reaction triggered, but the total pressure buildup from the chemicals is insufficient to exceed the casing strength; such a bomb is a dud, but still potentially dangerous if handled, since an external shock could trigger rupture of the statically pressurized casing.
I've just reverted CodaThePortalMaster's removal of "spud guns" from the long-standing text "...pipe bombs are much more dangerous than alternatives, such as dry ice bombs or spud guns...".
His summary questioned: "...how spud guns have any relation to any type of bomb" - but the relationship is simply that they are similarly potentially dangerous devices with "a long tradition of recreational use for amusement or mischief with no intention to cause injury". Snori ( talk) 07:41, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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After "However, they have also been used by Irish republican paramilitaries and by anti-drugs vigilante group Republican Action Against Drugs" I suggest to add: ", and it was IRA technicians who perfected pipe bombs designs to the point of transforming them into hand grenades of undoubtedly artisanal construction but equipped with all the features typical of industrially produced grenades (mechanical fuzes with spring loaded strikers, safety pins, fly off levers, etc)[Here citation to: IRA Improvised Hand Grenade Designs ( https://web.archive.org/web/20240211145151/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/IRA_Improvised_Hand_Grenade_Designs.pdf)]" SeForPreciso ( talk) 20:51, 11 February 2024 (UTC)