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Now I need a beer. That was waaaaay too close.
The fridge shot back.
Saw that yesterday.
The smartest thing he did was shoot from behind a substantial tree.
He needed a BIGGER tree.
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By watching the timer on the video and guessing at the distance to the fridge I came up a rough guess that the door sped past him at somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 to 150 mph.,,or roughly 200 fps. That's way too fast for a fridge door to be flying around without filing a flight plan.
"Hold my beer while I change my britches..." 😉
I'm guessing there was more than just coolant in that fridge.
Mapman, post: 431644, member: 6096 wrote: I'm guessing there was more than just coolant in that fridge.
"Tannerite" is usually one of the words used in 3rd. grade spelling bees down here in OK. What's hilarious is fireworks are generally illegal here...but not explosives. Go figure.
After watching that video, I got up to get a cup of coffee and it took three paces to completely remove my chair from my backside.
Mapman, post: 431644, member: 6096 wrote: I'm guessing there was more than just coolant in that fridge.
There was: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4583078/Video-shows-exploding-fridge-door-nearly-killing-shooter.html
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Dang - that video gives me an idea...turn the fridge 90?ø and set up a target for the door to hit!
We routinely hear tremendous explosions in rural areas and that's what it is.
Police scanner also routinely has calls for "explosion reported".
Very safe explosive until you start stuffing it into things that can turn into projectiles.
imaudigger, post: 431683, member: 7286 wrote: Dang - that video gives me an idea...turn the fridge 90?ø and set up a target for the door to hit!
We routinely hear tremendous explosions in rural areas and that's what it is.
Police scanner also routinely has calls for "explosion reported".Very safe explosive until you start stuffing it into things that can turn into projectiles.
In my early adulthood I kept residence in a fairly remote area...nobody cared much what you did on your own place. Before the invention of Tannerite we usually opted to place a 3 or 5 gal LP tank on top of brush fire and nail it with a good deer rifle. Lots of times it just took off like a rocket, the gas would come out so fast it didn't have time to blow up. But when you did rupture the tank good it was a sight, especially at night. 100 yards away is a good place to start...
Explosions are cool.
Shrapnel is not.
paden cash, post: 431703, member: 20 wrote: In my early adulthood I kept residence in a fairly remote area...nobody cared much what you did on your own place. Before the invention of Tannerite we usually opted to place a 3 or 5 gal LP tank on top of brush fire and nail it with a good deer rifle. Lots of times it just took off like a rocket, the gas would come out so fast it didn't have time to blow up. But when you did rupture the tank good it was a sight, especially at night. 100 yards away is a good place to start...
I won't (can't) go into too many stories about explosives.
One summer, back when I was still in Level 1 training (before Tannerite was invented), I had this 20 gallon fuel tank out of a truck I was scrapping. It was full of old gas - what to do with it?
As usual, idle minds come up with some good ideas...lets take it out and blow it up. That promoted about an hour of discussion (with my fellow trainees) about how to get the most effect from the fuel that was in the tank.
We settled on taking it out to a very rural area and lighting something on fire nearby and shooting the tank with a high caliber rifle (from a safe distance of course). We took it out to a large clearing, which had a small pad that was cut into the gently sloping hillside. The tank was set on the ground (with much difficulty) and an oily rag was stuffed into the cut-off fuel filler neck and lit.
We drove off about 60 yards and set up over the hood of the truck with our deer rifles.
Bam! First shot....nothing happened.
Ha you missed - my turn. Bam! Nothing happened. What the heck?!
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Little did we notice that we had indeed hit the tank and fuel was gushing out all of the holes, then flowing down the hillside in a narrow rut.
We of course stopped and discussed how we could alter the situation to better facilitate an explosion.
It was about that time that the flaming rag fell out of the fuel filler neck and lit the spilled fuel.
No explosion, but we were treated to a 50' long wall of flames. Pitch black smoke was pouring out of the tip of the flames.
The gushing fuel continued..... Soon there was a very large cloud of black smoke climbing into the sky (mind you this was summer time).
Nothing we could do but watch it burn and worry about the fire department showing up.
paden cash, post: 431703, member: 20 wrote: In my early adulthood I kept residence in a fairly remote area...nobody cared much what you did on your own place. Before the invention of Tannerite we usually opted to place a 3 or 5 gal LP tank on top of brush fire and nail it with a good deer rifle. Lots of times it just took off like a rocket, the gas would come out so fast it didn't have time to blow up. But when you did rupture the tank good it was a sight, especially at night.
Jesus H. Christ on a bicycle, and all this time I thought I was crazy "In my early adulthood", Paden, you win. 😉
FL/GA PLS., post: 431737, member: 379 wrote: Jesus H. Christ on a bicycle, and all this time I thought I was crazy "In my early adulthood", Paden, you win. 😉
Another "I dunno, what do you wanna do?" fun Saturday night thing to do in the "country" is place a small amount of gasoline (very small, like > 1/8 cup) in an empty plastic soda pop bottle with the lid securely tightened and throw it in your neighbor's 'trash burning' barrel. Watching your neighbor burn his trash can be very entertaining. By the time the plastic gets melted the pressure inside can be great. The ensuing blast has been known to knock the side out of a rusted burn barrel.
I've also seen a full circle 15' fire ring go straight up to heaven. It's hard to keep a straight face while your neighbor tells you the story that his wife's empty hair spray can exploded in the trash.....;)
ps - I've noticed in the last twenty years there are a lot of poly-carts for trash out in the rural areas. Burning your household trash may be a thing of the past in some locales.....gawd, is nothing sacred?
In my teens a friend and I were exploring and old trash dump way on the back side of our farm. This was in the days when you could still get cherry bombs and silver salutes. We found what I assume was an old light fixture. It had an aluminum dish about 18 inches in diameter and a "lens" of +/* 1/2 inch thick glass with a +/* 4 inch diameter hole in the middle. HEY lets blow it up with these silver salutes. We set it out at the edge of a field dropped in 4 salutes taped together lit the fuse and ran to a ditch beside the field. We were lying flat when the "bomb" went off. BOOOOOM!!!! All went well until a triangle of that glass came down and stuck in my back. Thank goodness it only went in about 1/2 inch, but it did bleed a while. Jump in the Flint River with my clothes on to get some of the blood off before my mother could scalp me. It's a wonder I lived to adulthood. You'll notice I didn't say until I grew up, I never have.
Andy
The "exchange" as we referred to the nearest trash dump was the source of potential disaster for many a young lad. A group of us discovered several big carton boxes of aerosol cans of some sort of furniture polish stuff had be added to the "exchange" offerings. We decided to see what would happen if you held a can in one hand and a pocket knife in the other and then slammed the knife into the can. A tremendous geyser would erupt while the can was freezing your hand on a hot August afternoon. Horrible things could have happened, but didn't. We were all on bicycles and over a mile from the nearest house and several miles from one of our own houses.
I saw (never did it myself, I swear) guys in the dorm spray deodorant with a flammable propellant on the plaster ceiling and light it to see the pretty flames dance. It burned itself out without catching anything else, at least the time I saw it. You could also just light the spray from the can and project a flame several feet.
Further back, I once took the frame of a 4 inch diameter fan motor, with the rotor removed, and put a black cat firecracker in the hole where the shaft would have exited. Fortunately I understood the meaning of locating oneself "perpendicular to the axis", because it blew the halves of the housing about 50 feet in each directions.
I belong to a local gun club and they have a sign up "NO TANNERIRITE". Now I know why.
Bill93, post: 431838, member: 87 wrote: (never did it myself, I swear)
Oh, of course not. 😉
