[TheForge] [OT] Pyro-boom (Re: Thanks for the info...)

Sat May 31 09:45:00 2003

    A couple of years ago 2 guys in Toledo were going somewhere with a
garbage bag
of oxy/act in the back of the pickup truck. I don't think their
intententions were ever
discovered. In any event they never made it to wherever they were going
before the
bag exploded. Darn near destroyed the truck. They escaped with their lives
fortunately.

Bob Willman
The Eagle's Anvil
Bowling Green, Ohio
WB8NQW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 23:46
Subject: [TheForge] [OT] Pyro-boom (Re: Thanks for the info...)


>
> Pyro Boy quoth:
>
> > Imagine a 150' long piece of 5 mil anitstatic plastic bag roll (we
> > make smaller bags from the large roll of tube with a heat sealer) Then
> > imagine some idiot and all his buddies, and 3 full 235 CF sets of
> > oxy/acet tanks, and a mixing valve preset to the perfect
> > mix...........
>
> Um, have you *done* this?  Why didn' I hear?
>
> "Antistatic plastic", eh?
>
> I once touched off a small party balloon full of no particular ratio
> of oxy/acet with a 4' piece of rod heated one end.  Exceeded
> expectations by an order of magnitude.  Rattled distant
> windows. Deafened me for awhile.  Before trying a second one, I got to
> thinking about static electricity.  Hmm....  I have 9.8 fingers,
> decided to keep it that way.
>
> Is there a way to guarantee that a party baloon will remain
> static-free for a predictable period of time?
>
> I've also thought, in my more irritated moments, that a clear trash
> bag, filled with oxy/acet, with a peeled flash bulb inside, hung high
> in the old apple tree by the road and connected to the house with some
> lamp cord would offer a remarkable surprise to the deer jackers who,
> in the dark of an autumn night, check the tree for deer nibbling the
> drops.  And then I thought, "Do I need deaf, blind, frightened, armed
> drunks staggering around in my pasture?"
>
> - Mike
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada
>
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> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/
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