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#137874 - 06/27/08 02:19 AM Re: Fire jar. [Re: Blast]
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Young idle minds. With a little bit of metal shop thrown in...
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#137880 - 06/27/08 03:10 AM Re: Fire jar. [Re: OldBaldGuy]
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Now blast...Thanks for giving me something to do next time i'm at my cousins metal shop!! (:
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#137896 - 06/27/08 10:53 AM Re: Fire jar. [Re: climberslacker]
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heh heh heh *BOOM* heh heh heh... Fire! Fire! Heh heh....
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#137935 - 06/27/08 04:28 PM Re: Fire jar. [Re: OldBaldGuy]
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A friend indicates that garbage bag full of acetylene, detonated at night, can attract the attention of sheriff's deputies from a real long distance. Said friend is from Texas, and has a graduate degree in hard sciences...who do we know like that?

It appears that calcium carbide cannons are still available to the general public: http://www.cannon-mania.com/bigbang.htm

Calcium carbide reacts with water to from acetylene, useful for ripening fruit, powering a miner's lamp, and desulfurizing iron (?), and quoting wikipedia, "it is still used in the Netherlands and Belgium for a traditional custom called Carbidschieten (Shooting Carbide). To create an explosion, carbide and water are put in a milk churn with a lid. Ignition is usually done with a torch. Some villages in the Netherlands fire multiple milk churns in a row as a New Year's Eve tradition. The old tradition comes from the old pagan religion to chase off spirits."


I'm getting some for my BOB.
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#137972 - 06/28/08 12:32 AM Re: Fire jar. [Re: nursemike]
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I can see it now. I am sitting on my back porch one minute after midnight, sipping a toddy, and suddenly a falling milk churn falls on my bald noggin, knocking me silly...
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#137974 - 06/28/08 12:38 AM Re: Fire jar. [Re: OldBaldGuy]
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OBG.... I literally started cracking up!!! Yeah, so when we meet up when the shtf, we should have tons of fun!! (:
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#137979 - 06/28/08 01:41 AM Re: Fire jar. [Re: climberslacker]
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Life is always fun!!!
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