Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/embed/FG1LGKieTxY?rel=0 Video freezes for a few seconds mid-way, but will restart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooch Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Amazed that anyone would stand and watch, especially the guy who parks up behind to watch. I'd have been out of the car and running! - just look at those bottles launching at the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsechris Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Darwin at work..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Staggering isn't it. Even some professionals occasionally miss calculate how far shrapnell can travel, but gas bottles are even worse, as under the right conditions they're not just bombs, but missiles as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 Amazed that anyone would stand and watch, especially the guy who parks up behind to watch. I'd have been out of the car and running! - just look at those bottles launching at the end. Quite! One of them took off like a Saturn 5! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Podmore Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Wouldn't have stayed as close as that filming.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 The stupid is strong with some of those people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooch Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 If you want to see some spectacular explosions, look up 'Bleve' on You Tube. The firefighters I've known count this as probably the most dangerous sort of fire there is. (Bleve = Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion). Some LPG rail trucks going up look like WW3! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 Ah yes Mike, I experienced one of those on a very small scale a rather long time ago in the chemistry lab of the National College of Rubber technology. An experiment I was carrying out - from a sheet of instructions given to me by the lecturer - had me pouring acetone into boiling water. Bad enough you might say if you knew, as I didn't, that acetone boils at 56 degrees C and has a flash point of -20 degrees C. The water was boiling in a glass beaker over a Bunsen burner! WOOOOOF! Cue panic from me and my companions on the bench next to me. Well, my excuse was I was an engineer not a chemist and they ought have vetted the data sheets before handing them out willy-nilly. Luckily it went up so spectacularly that very little of the acetone actually made it into the beaker and the vapour plume burned off very rapidly indeed. The next week's experiment was to dissolve silicone polymer in hydrofluoric acid in a glass beaker. Now not a lot dissolves glass but HF is one such solvent... If you value your lunch do NOT Google HF burns images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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