In message , Stephen Mawson
writes

OK to lob a can on a bonfire then?:-)


--
Adam

I've seen it done (with a can of spray paint)
The can shot out of the fire like a rocket.

I think a can of easy start might be interesting.
Or a propane cylinder.


If you watch videos of fires on the news, something normally "blows" on
LPG cylinders and you get a jet of flame, insufficient to turn it into a
rocket, and the cylinder itself doesn't explode. It *might* be that the
same happened in this case and that it was the containment provided by
the woodburner, probably the windows or the lid, which "blew".

Not true. Many years ago I witnessed, at a distance of a bout a 1/2 mile,
a fire at a Propane gas store. Numerous gas bottles at times were blown
high into the air.

If that was the fire in Croydon in the 1970s, I saw it too but from
Wimbledon perhaps six miles away. Spectacular.

I think not a store, unless there was more than spectacularity at the
time. I worked on the 20th floor of Lunar House (top ten floors weren't
the immigration dept., sorry Harry and co.) from 1976-79, a few hundred
yards from West Croydon station. A freight train with 12 or so tanker
carriages in a siding ignited and caused most interesting fireworks.
Several of us young un's watched through the window, ignoring
loudspeaker warnings not to do so.
--
Nick (=----)