Received this email from a happy PuttyHead, Chance Helmuth. I thought you all might like to try his suggestion and let me know if it works better for you:
"I'm not sure this is the right email for putty
tricks, but I just came up with an idea for a better way to make a big
bang with with putty, and I have gotten better results compared with
the pop in the "make putty snap, crackle and pop" section of the tricks
section. I get an almost terrifyingly loud BANG quite consistently with
this technique.
Step 1:roll the putty into a fairly even ball
Step 2:press your thumb halfway through
Step 3:make it bigger by finger-thumb pressing the walls
Step 4:hold the mouth of the bowl-shaped putty up to your mouth, and blow one mouth full of air inside
Step
5:put the mouth of the now balloon shaped putty up to your eye, and
look for any thin areas, signaled by light showing through the putty.
If there are any big ones, go to step 1.
Step 6: assuming there were
little or no lightspots, seal the end andwrap your hands around the
sealedd end, halfay up the bubble and squeeze hard.
Step 7:Enjoy, and repeat. :)"
