Please respond to biofuel@yahoogroups.com To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com cc: (bcc: Joseph Martelle/US/GM/GMC) Subject: Re: [biofuel] OT Oxy-Acetylene BANG. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Lots of fun! I used to blow up old soda pop cans with an oxy-acetylene > torch and toilet paper as the wick. Very loud! :-) Joe. >Worked at a refractory brick manufacturing plant, (45lb pitch bonded >calcined dolomite for use in Basic Oxygen Steelmaking Vessels.) The workers >used to do a similar thing with soccer ball sized plastic bags. >Great dust shaker but the cardboard wick soaked in kero had me worried >safety wise. Not wanting to spoil their fun (and to get in on the act >myself) made up detonators out of match heads packed around a single strand >of fine iron wire. These were attatched to one end of a long twin strand >cord and sealed inside the bag of oxy-acetylene. The fork lift came in >handy as both a source of battery power and a sufety shield. >Even convinced the manager that letting a few larger ones of these of in the >kiln building would be a good way of shaking the dust out of the place. >After a while the small plastic bags got a bit ho hum. So we went larger. >56lb plastic liners from concrete style paper bags were employed to great >effect. >We ended up with a good demonstration of the power of fuel and oxygen.> >A heavy duty lidless 44 gallon drum (55g US) was stuffed with two of these >bags and inverted over two bricks. >The resulting bank and flames were very impressive (the local airforce base >got the blame for sonic booms that night). Being dark we couldn't see what >happened to the drum. Shortly there was a clatter and then a thump. >Exploring by torchlight revealed the base of the drum which had been blown >out and now resembled a chinamans hat, nearby was the body of the drum, >split at the seam and wrapped completely around itself. >Just as well that wire was a long one. >regards Paul. COOL! :-) Joe --------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/zoU8wD/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
