When in the military back in the late 60's we used to take condoms,
and filll em up with acetylene, tie a string to them, and manuver them
over a zippo lighter that was burning, and watch the black ball of
smoke and yellowish flame.....Used to make a pretty decent bang, but
not all that loud, or not anywhere near as neat as when we added O2 to
one condom.....We were in a typical lean to type structure, bored and
working nightshift. The structure served as a shop of sorts, with
hanging florescent lights.......it knocked the 5 of us on our ass and
the concusion knocked out some of the lights as well....Awesome flash
bang......It was not long until higher ups thought the base had
incomming rounds so it sort of got an unexpected situation started....

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:59:36 -0500, "wallster"
wrote:
I was watching Discovery channel's "American Chopper" last night. In the
past, I've read threads about the disregard of welding helmets while tack
welding, eye protection while grinding, etc. Last night they out did there
lack of safety by filling a balloon with acetylene, setting it on the
ground, pouring gas to it and lighting it. No disclaimer regarding safety
either. Hopefully some yougster won't think that was cool and try it at
home. The fact that filling a balloon with acetylene is really dangerous
(static electricity and kaboom... off with those fingers, hand, face...)
then lighting gasolene (indoors too!) WOW!, makes jackass look like brain
surgery.
I posted a warning on the the shows forum board.
Did anyone else see this show?

walt


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