Anybody here want to admit to doing something like this (glancing in the direction of "past" delinquents, you know who you are)?
Haha! Idiots! Good illustration of combustible vs flammable....
Stuff happens really quick. The guy with the fuel jug is pouring when the flash occurs. Seconds later he's nowhere to be seen and the jug is sitting on the ground. He then finally (foolishly) returns to grab it and get it away from the flames.
There's a lot more that could have happened there that didn't. They're lucky the only casualty was Bubba's shorts!
My favorite prank actually came about as an adult. I had a place way out in the sticks where we had to burn our own household garbage, Everybody had a proverbial "burn barrel". I found out (quite by accident) that a plastic two liter pop bottle that had a trace amount of gasoline in it and the lid screwed tight could become a tremendous flash when it got hot enough if it was buried deep in the burning trash. My neighbors and I use to pride ourselves by hiding these "bombs" in each other's barrels.
We had to quit when one exploded and blew the side out of the rusty barrel resulting in a grass fire and a visit from the local volunteer fire department...
A full can of "aqua net" hair spray has much the same effect.
Reading this thread, and the pre mature fall nip (aftermath of huricane Irma) brings excitement to my soul.
Anybody ever heard of "tannerite"?
N
Nate The Surveyor, post: 446552, member: 291 wrote: ...Anybody ever heard of "tannerite"? N
Isn't the word 'tannerite' taught in spelling bees for elementary schools in Arkansas?
paden cash, post: 446563, member: 20 wrote: Isn't the word 'tannerite' taught in spelling bees for elementary schools in Arkansas?
They're required to write a report on the report.
What clowns. Should've known better!:oops: Sort of thing I'd have done in my youthful years.:)
Thankfully they survived.
If anyone has played with powdered aluminium and magnesium you'd know how well it goes poof.
We had a pretty extensive chemistry lab at home and I'd undertake 'experiments' on all manner of things.
Aluminium ignited with a strip of magnesium ribbon burns fiercely,and would light up the night sky like nothing else.
One such 'experiment' didn't go off so bright spark here drove the boots into my concoction.
Boom. I've never seen since such a display.
The aluminium wafted into the air and it's ignition lit up the nearby hill and bush about 180 metres away like broad daylight.
Have you ever shot a 44 gallon drum full of water with a 303?
That was interesting.
It went up in the air, jumped off its pedestal and dumped itself onto the ground, never to rise again. Not sure how I explained that to Dad?
It was our water supply for the chemistry lab.
I saw a sniper demonstration at an air force base in the early 1960s where from about 400+ yards away from the crowded stands they shot a can of fuel with a tracer load.
There was loud boom and then ball of fire scorched an area about the size a baseball field and went way up in the sky.
A fool I know likes to put an inch or two of gas in a glass beer bottle and set it by a fire.
When it reaches the right temperature it makes a loud "foomp" and a ball of flames will shoot a hundred feet or so straight up.
:skull:
Don't think I could do this at the apartment but, it looks like fun.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 446552, member: 291 wrote: A full can of "aqua net" hair spray has much the same effect.
Reading this thread, and the pre mature fall nip (aftermath of huricane Irma) brings excitement to my soul.
Anybody ever heard of "tannerite"?
N
Tannerite=too much fun to be legal
R.J. Schneider, post: 446635, member: 409 wrote: Don't think I could do this at the apartment but, it looks like fun.
Maybe behind the stairs?
😉
N
Long time ago, when I was 18, started at a local community college. My brother and I rented a trailer to live in. It had a gas range/stove. The oven was hard to light, they didn't auto-light back then. One morning got up and wanted to bake some biscuits for breakfast. Tried several times couldn't get it to light. When my patience runs out I do stupid things. Patience lot shorter back then than now but I still need to watch it. Anyway, I decided to light that sucker up. Waded up a bunch of newspaper, turned on the gas with the door closed, set the newspaper on fire, opened the door and thru it in. NOT GOOD!! BIG BOOM, blew me into the side wall, blew the top off the stove, singed my hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. Other than a little bruised and singed not really hurt. Stove was still not going, no biscuits, never tried to light the oven again.
paden cash, post: 446549, member: 20 wrote: Stuff happens really quick. The guy with the fuel jug is pouring when the flash occurs. Seconds later he's nowhere to be seen and the jug is sitting on the ground. He then finally (foolishly) returns to grab it and get it away from the flames.
There's a lot more that could have happened there that didn't. They're lucky the only casualty was Bubba's shorts!
My favorite prank actually came about as an adult. I had a place way out in the sticks where we had to burn our own household garbage, Everybody had a proverbial "burn barrel". I found out (quite by accident) that a plastic two liter pop bottle that had a trace amount of gasoline in it and the lid screwed tight could become a tremendous flash when it got hot enough if it was buried deep in the burning trash. My neighbors and I use to pride ourselves by hiding these "bombs" in each other's barrels.
We had to quit when one exploded and blew the side out of the rusty barrel resulting in a grass fire and a visit from the local volunteer fire department...
Cleaning up old farmstead and clearing some trees. You need to call the fire marshal. Guy came out to see what what I was going to burn before they gave permission. He showed me how to start a pile of trees on fire. You may think to use gas or diesel. OK, what really works is mixed half gas and half diesel. Drench it on the pile where you want to start the fire. Stand back and throw something on fire into it. It really starts a fire, almost explosive.
I usually start fires with those starter logs made from bits of wood glued together or wads of newspaper balls.
In my school days I knew little about battery safety.
Camped out the scrub, no power, and the torch died so emptied the batteries into the fire.
One came flying back past me a few minutes later.
A lesson never forgotten.
paden cash, post: 446563, member: 20 wrote: Isn't the word 'tannerite' taught in spelling bees for elementary schools in Arkansas?
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Clearly they were amateurs.
I could go into detail about how to inexpensively launch a truck tire mounted on a wheel so far into the sky that it disappears from sight, but it isn't anywhere near safe and I would not want to give anybody any ideas. Gasoline was not involved...lots of beer - yes.
How far into the sky is that? Say a 38" dia. black tire on a clear day. It's probably the most impressive volatile fun I have ever had.
Of course you always have to go bigger and better.
Fortunately for me, I was not involved in that part.
It ended in a friend receiving very severe injuries that were nearly fatal.
Very costly lesson.
Tannerite has an equal potential for costly lessons when used to make things fly in little pieces at high velocity. .
In a couple of years those guys will win the Darwin Award. :p
I've always liked this one:
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