Oxy petrol cutting

[dumper]

2 minutes ago, difflock said:

I saw a reference recently to an Austrian Fire Service document detailing how to shoot Acety cyls with a rifle, presumably better to deal with a jet of burning gas, than an exploding Acety cylinder.

Strange but apparently true!

Acetylene can explode if you drop the cylinder

[difflock]

6 minutes ago, dumper said:

Acetylene can explode if you drop the cylinder

Ah knowed that!

I have never worked with Acetylene, but once spent quite a while larning all aboot it on the interweds, I suspect if it had been invented recently, it would NEVER have EVER gotten approved the way it was way back then, fascinating dangerous tempremental stuff that it is.

But I really really want to shoot up a full cyl to see if the Austrians are right!

The .303 will FMJ ammo should do grand.

Edited February 1, 2021 by difflock

[Paddy1000111]

I had a friend who worked in a garage. His party trick was to fill a black bin bag with acetylene and a touch of oxy and then make a fuse out of an oily rag. Used to float away and go off with a boom equivalent to an rpg 

[htb]

11 minutes ago, dumper said:

Acetylene can explode if you drop the cylinder

Only welding bottle removals company would not carry in their lorry, when moved from Suffolk to Huntly, came up on back seat of range rover.

[skc101fc]

I had a friend who worked in a garage. His party trick was to fill a black bin bag with acetylene and a touch of oxy and then make a fuse out of an oily rag. Used to float away and go off with a boom equivalent to an rpg 

Isn't acetylene denser than air, therefore don't float/rise or am I wrong?

 

Got 2 acet cylinders here so looking forward to some bangs [emoji12]

[Paddy1000111]

8 minutes ago, skc101fc said:

Isn't acetylene denser than air, therefore don't float/rise or am I wrong?

 

Got 2 acet cylinders here so looking forward to some bangs

Maybe it wasn't that then? I remember him putting gas from a torch in a bag and the f***** floating off 😂

[skc101fc]

Ready to give it a try anyway. Love flames and bangs !!

[Paddy1000111]

Just looked it up and acetylene has a specific gravity of 0.9 (air is 1) so it definitely floats and it must have been acetylene! 

[skc101fc]

Just googled it, it is less dense than air, so up it goes

[Paddy1000111]