[TheForge] Kaboom

[Richardson, Grover]

Welding supply shop nearby used to have pictures of the results, grin.

>From Mini-Grover-ville

> On Feb 24, 2014, at 8:11 PM, "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> 
> Most every of the old welding supply shops had stories of run-away pressure tanks
> that flew 2 blocks and leveled a block wall.
> I knew some guys who swore that as kids they'd sneak into construction sites
> and take a sledge to the valves to watch them fly or spin around furiously.
> One guy said that if you sit on them before they can gain momentum,
> they could be controlled...I didn't ask if he'd suffered frost bite of the ass.
> 
> On Feb 24, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
> 
>> Wondered...thanks Jim.
>> Perhaps we can get them to try again ,
>> and do it right this time!
> 
> When I was in high school, late 50s, it was reported that several
> unsecured oxy tanks fell off a truck in the edge of downtown, (at
> least) one of them snapping off the valve.  The resulting rocket(s)
> demolished a store front and damaged parked cars. No report of people
> hurt or killed.
> 
> I didn't see it so it's just a yarn now but I did later see the
> boarded-up store front for what that's worth.
> 
> And a friend who used to work on the arctic oil rigs off Alaska circa
> 1970 had an oxy yarn, too.  Having sighted (what they were sure was) a
> Russian submarine lurking nearby, they rigged up a piece of well pipe
> as a barrel, inserted an oxy tank valve down, did some WAG
> calculations of mass and thrust.  Then one guy tooled up in whatever
> they could come up with in full body protective gear and whacked the
> valve off the tank with a sledgehammer.  Claimed to have hit the sub,
> resulting in a great and clearly audible BONGing noise, after which
> the sub quietly slunk away, persaumably in embarassment.
> 
> I have no idea if this is true, a lie or a lie so well know in the oil
> rig trade that it's part of The Lore.
> 
> FWIW,
> - Mike
> 
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