Friend in High /School was teaching himself to weld on a drum that had some gasoline in it. Let’s just say, he didn’t graduate, and it was a closed casket.
More Darwin Award candidates.
Here’s hoping they never get anywhere near REAL ordnance!
When I was in high school, I filled a 30 gal. drum with oxy/acetalyne. Set off with spark plug in small bung. Didn’t go boom. Was a roar. People come from over a mile away to see what the hell. Country living at its finest!
Back in the day I saw a video showing the difference between and explosion and a detonation. Highspeed camera on a balloon filled with propane and you could watch the pieces of the balloon in the frames. Add oxygen to the propane and all you saw was flash. It was quick!
An explosion faster then the speed of sound is the definition of a detonation.
We did a cubic foot of hydrogen in a balloon tethered to the middle of the football field (for Chemistry class)
They don’t do it any more. Pity.
Glad your still with us Texson
When I was a kid, many many moons ago, one of my Uncles owned a business that he was allowed to have an in ground 250 gallon gasoline tank on his property. My cousins used to take a five gallon pail, fill it about half full, slop some over the side and a trail of about 20 feet, then cover it with ten gallon pail. Those ten gallon pails used to shoot up quit a distance.
Idiots. Would have been much funnier if that drum traveled a few feet more and went right through the windshield of the minivan.
Was this event preceded by the mandatory exclamation of “Hey y’all, watch this!”?
Quick way to make a burn barrel…
Oxy/acetylene mix in a trashbag. If my buddy had gotten the mix “right” it would’ve been a memorable night. Thankfully all it did was quietly fireball instead of what could’ve happened.
Good thing y’all didn’t know stoichiometric ratio back then!!
Friend in High /School was teaching himself to weld on a drum that had some gasoline in it. Let’s just say, he didn’t graduate, and it was a closed casket.
More Darwin Award candidates.
Here’s hoping they never get anywhere near REAL ordnance!
When I was in high school, I filled a 30 gal. drum with oxy/acetalyne. Set off with spark plug in small bung. Didn’t go boom. Was a roar. People come from over a mile away to see what the hell. Country living at its finest!
Back in the day I saw a video showing the difference between and explosion and a detonation. Highspeed camera on a balloon filled with propane and you could watch the pieces of the balloon in the frames. Add oxygen to the propane and all you saw was flash. It was quick!
An explosion faster then the speed of sound is the definition of a detonation.
We did a cubic foot of hydrogen in a balloon tethered to the middle of the football field (for Chemistry class)
They don’t do it any more. Pity.
Glad your still with us Texson
When I was a kid, many many moons ago, one of my Uncles owned a business that he was allowed to have an in ground 250 gallon gasoline tank on his property. My cousins used to take a five gallon pail, fill it about half full, slop some over the side and a trail of about 20 feet, then cover it with ten gallon pail. Those ten gallon pails used to shoot up quit a distance.
Idiots. Would have been much funnier if that drum traveled a few feet more and went right through the windshield of the minivan.
Was this event preceded by the mandatory exclamation of “Hey y’all, watch this!”?
Quick way to make a burn barrel…
Oxy/acetylene mix in a trashbag. If my buddy had gotten the mix “right” it would’ve been a memorable night. Thankfully all it did was quietly fireball instead of what could’ve happened.
Good thing y’all didn’t know stoichiometric ratio back then!!