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Doug White

Ignoramus27891 wrote in
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On 2010-01-28, William Wixon wrote:

"Dave__67" wrote in message
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I prefer a 50 gal trashbag full of acetylene and oxygen.

Nuclear purple flash, a bang that'll echo for 10 seconds (at least in
the hudson valley), surprisingly little destructive power, and no
evidence except tiny bits of melted plastic.

I was thinking, buy 3-4 helium balloons, tie one balloon full of O/A
to them, add a fuse, light the fuse and let it fly up in the air
before exploding. Kids might like it.

We used to fill taped up dry cleaning bags with methane for list, and
then hang and oxy-acetylene bag under it. For fusing, we used cannon
fuse & "detheramlizer" fuse. Thsi was like havy cotton cord, that would
char at about 1/4" a minute. It was used to retrieve model gliders bu
releasing the horizontal tail stabilizer after a period of time.

They would get very high up befoe there was a good flash & boom form the
O-A, followed by an orange firebal from the methane. No blown out
windows, and we all still have (most) of our hearing.

Do not try this at home, etc.

Doug White