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Re: clay glandes
Reply #15 - Mar 19th, 2006 at 5:11am
 
Steven,
The fire starting glandes where only used very seldom, as far as we can work out, and may have been pebbles rather than clay in some cases.
If you fire your clay glandes, they become stronger, but will also stay pottery after they fall apart and take ages to recycle into nature again. Not a problem in many cases but something to consider if you sling in a environment where litter is prohibited.

But the main reason to use clay or sand glandes is that you do not need fire or a pottery oven to make them.
I do not know about you, but living in an apartment or townhouse it is hard to make a fire nowadays to fire clay.

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Reply #16 - Mar 19th, 2006 at 9:51am
 
Like I said, I use sculptor's clay, and I just roll the glande, shape it, and throw it in the oven on a sheet of aluminum foil until it gets hot and starts to turn purple. Toss it in the freezer to flash cool it, and then throw with it. Very simple. Very tough, too. I've never had a glande break on me despite impacts with concrete, trees, lightpoles, etc... I've even thrown one down at the ground as hard as I could with my hand, and it just bounced off with little more than a small chip taken out of where it impacted the street.
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Reply #17 - Mar 19th, 2006 at 10:18am
 
Thats tough clay!

If you have ever had those little easter eggs (the ones with the creamy gunk inside) its quite fun. When i get a good swing they splatter on everything within about 2 yds. I wouldn't reccomend going crazy though because it can be expensive... i just by 2 or 3 and sling em at the side of the house for a quick laugh.... and it actually cleans pretty quick if you have to. It also works better if you take the foil off and have it at room temperature... im thinking about experimenting with heating it just a bit to make the chocolate break easier... but i dont wanna mess up my sling with gooey chocolate...

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Reply #18 - Mar 19th, 2006 at 8:08pm
 
I once slung a rotten tomato, and ended up spraying a friend by accident.
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Reply #19 - Mar 19th, 2006 at 8:10pm
 
okay... umm.... DISGUSTING!

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Reply #20 - Mar 19th, 2006 at 10:37pm
 
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I once slung a rotten tomato, and ended up spraying a friend by accident.



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Reply #21 - Mar 19th, 2006 at 10:57pm
 
Suppose he's got a pointed stick. Grin
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Reply #22 - Mar 19th, 2006 at 11:20pm
 
I don't think we're quite ready for pointed and wooden objects quite yet Smiley
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Reply #23 - Mar 20th, 2006 at 4:24am
 
I made clay glandes, and in pretty much the same shape as Siguy - roll, pinch the ends.

They were slightly more than one-use when baked, and I mixed in ground straw to try and give them some more strength. But my experiments ended when I got my mold for christmas, now I stick to lead.

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Re: clay glandes
Reply #24 - Mar 20th, 2006 at 10:43am
 
Hmm, I wonder how much damage clay glandes would do. I don't have anything to work with, but I certainly wouldn't want to get hit with the fired clay that they use for ceramics. Hitting soft earth, those would be reusable.
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Reply #25 - Mar 20th, 2006 at 11:20am
 
I know from knocking one of mine against my head (that's how I test the hardness. If it hurts MY head, then it will break anyone else's.) that even at low velocity, I would NOT want to get hit with one. And to add to it, they tend to bounce when they hit something, which increases the chances they will hit something else. All of the sudden, a sling battle could turn into a painful pinball game.
And as for the defence against fruit, well, I'm an alumnus of that school, and I've moved on to the graduate lvl studies of defence WITH fruit.
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Reply #26 - Mar 20th, 2006 at 11:43am
 
The ones that I have tried just basically exploded when they hit. Lots of dust everywhere. I imagine that lots of these coming down would create quite a dust cloud. Also, if you put in pebble, you get shrapnel.
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