in my misspent youth we made zip guns from radio antennae. it took multiple firings to bulge them, even unsupported on the breech end.
there is more to this failure than is being explained.


the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~