[Vwdiesel] Was Broken Bleeder Valves - now acetylene lore

[Razvan Florea]

Here in Romania the kids play very often with acetylene cannon, especially
in the winter. I'd never used them though. When I was a little boy a
neighbor blew off two fingers of his right arm. I did use an acetylene lamp
on fishing trips. My grandfather has an acetylene torch. It's a tank where
the calcium carbide is dissolving in water forming acetylene which is mixed
with O2 in the torch.



So my point is: Be very careful with ACETYLENE - it is very destructive in
the wrong hands!



Razvan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Harmon Seaver" <hseaver at cybershamanix.com>
To: "Vwdiesel" <vwdiesel at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Was Broken Bleeder Valves - now acetylene lore


>    Have you ever made an acetylene cannon? Sometimes called a spudgun?
Pretty
> neat. My son and a guy he worked with were playing with these. Then they
made
> some "balloons" out of garbage bags filled with oxy/acetylene and set them
> off. Very loud. 8-)
>
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