My apologies...R99 made a post in reference to your last post...
The bomb is complete. I posted an update but nobody responded over a week ago..
No problem - thanks... wow! your bomb looks like - a bomb! 
Two rows of four just like Tina said. It looks bigger, taller, than I imagined ?
Are these flares? (or rolls of coins ... laughing) ? Where's all the wires Tina saw, and the wire Cooper held in his fingers ...? Blasting cap?
The sticks are made of wood dowels and wrapped with construction paper. it wasn't easy getting the two stacks together. it's not constructed as you would usually see stacks of dynamite. seven sticks would be easier to manage when bundling them. the battery is made from a shipping tube and is functional. I coated the top with hot wax and the label was found online and printed to size. wires inside are linked to a small battery pack. the blasting cap is between the battery and dynamite....the briefcase is only two inches deep when open
I will post a pic with all the wires that I believe he used.
You went to a lot of work!
Just to refresh, here's the bomb testimony:
(7:55pm pst) NWA - [MSPFO asked for stewardess best recollection of exact content of HJ briefcase. She got on radio and gave the following basic information:]
_ Eight red sticks, about 6” x1” in left corner of brief case. “Look like big
firecrackers.” Two rows of sticks. Four on top of four.
_ Wire attached to dynamite with red insulation.
_ Battery “like flashlight battery but about 6” high and as big around as my
arm”.
_ Red sticks are about the color “of my uniform”.
7:57 pm t1 [ Mucklow describes bomb to Gnd Control …]
MSP: Have stewardess describe to you the brief case contents. Understand red dynamite sticks wire and battery
305: Mucklow: In briefcase left corner had 8 sticks of dynamite about 6 inches
long and 1 inch in diameter. Two rows of them then a wire out of there.
Then a battery like, a flashlight battery only as thick as my arm and 8
inches long.
MSP: Roger.
Interview 11-30 Mucklow:Her best recollection is that it was while he told her he wanted no “funny stuff” that he partially opened the briefcase more and he permitted her to see the contents (of the case).
She recalls the contents of the case as approximately eight cylindrical objects about six to eight inches long with four of the items being placed on top of the others and banded together with tape. She also recalls some covered and uncovered wiring running from the cylindrical objects to a dry cell type battery which had terminals on one end. She could not recall if the wires were connected to the terminals. The battery was described as approximately eight inches long and about two and one-half in diameter. She states that she had the impression seeing the contents that it could be dynamite; however, she is unfamiliar with the (exact) appearance of dynamite and could only describe it as stated above, adding that it (the sticks) were a “reddish rusty color”.
Mucklow recalled that during the flight from Portland to Seattle, all passengers were moved at least three rows forward from the back row where the hijacker was seated. At one time the subject stated that the bomb he had was electrically fused and he certainly hoped the crew would not generate any electrical currents which would trigger it!
Interview of Mucklow 12/1-2 at her home in PA:Mucklow sat next to the man and shortly thereafter he opened a black cheap appearing imitation leather attache case and showed her a device, with eight red cylindars and a wire running from the cylindars toward a large 6x8x2” battery. The wire had a red plastic coating on it except for the last inch which was bare and the man was holding between his fingers. He told (me) it was an electronic device and suggested the aircraft radio be used as little as possible. He then said ‘he didn’t think radio transmissions would bother it, but he wanted the crew warned’ .
Wiring:- Wire attached to dynamite with red insulation ...
- She also recalls some covered and uncovered wiring running from the cylindrical objects to a dry cell type battery which had terminals on one end. She could not recall if the wires were connected to the terminals.
- At one time the subject stated that the bomb he had was electrically fused and he certainly hoped the crew would not generate any electrical currents which would trigger it!
- and a wire running from the cylinders toward a large 6x8x2” battery. The wire had a red plastic coating on it except for the last inch which was bare and the man was holding between his fingers. He told (me) it was an electronic device and suggested the aircraft radio be used as little as possible. He then said ‘he didn’t think radio transmissions would bother it, but he wanted the crew warned’ .
