On 14 Oct 2005 16:03:40 -0700, "TwoGuns"
wrote:

Whump.
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When I was a stupid teen a friend of mine and I had the brilliant idea
of filling a 30 gallon trash bag we had placed in an empty 55 gallon
drum with Oxy/AC .
We stuffed the trunk of a 1946 Ford Business Coupe with trashbags
inflated with oxyacetylene, and sparked it.
What was so stupid about the whole thing, yours and ours, was what a
static charge would have done to use while handling the inflated bags.
The car was destroyed, utterly.
A nieghbor who lived near the gravel pit where the Ford met its demise
was urinating at the time. At Zero, the sound and concussion made him
jump to the extent that he described the bathroom wall as "Looking
like a siesmograph".
The two liter bottles are a more reasonable size.
I had a nephew who wanted to demonstrate jet propulsion for school.
We pinned four little cardboard wheels to a 2-l Pepsi bottle, put in a
few drops of acetone, and rolled the bottel so the acetone was spread
on the walls, then lit ii with a lighter. There was a *FWOOSH* and a
blue flame, and the thing took off down the hallway, really booking.
He was afraid to bring it to school though.
Nowadats, I suppose the Secret Police would have given us twenty years
in some Gulag.