Posted: 1/13/2003 4:13:21 PM EDT
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Responded to an explosion the other day. This guy left a small aerosol can of MINWAX Polyurethene spray on a spce heater and left for a short while. Can heated up, released vapor, ignited and BOOM! Knocked his new garage of the freakin foundation! Luckily, no fire and no injuries. Watch those spray cans people. [img]http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/69460f7f/bc/explosion/explosion+1.jpg?bcBX2I.ANlP4U9Tr [/img] [img]http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/69460f7f/bc/explosion/explosion+2.jpg?bcBX2I.AJqIrb_SI [/img] |
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When I was growing up I worked in my father's pharmacy. There was an incinerator in the back of the store. Part of my job was breaking down cardboard boxes and anything else that would burn. Into the incenerator it would go. This incenerator was a large block and masonry affair with a couple cast iron doors, each one must have weighted 100 pounds. One day "somebody" accidentally put some aerosol cans in with the carboard (I think maybe some hair spray cans). When the cans blew up the explosion blew one of the doors open so hard it swung around and knocked a hole in a lathe and plaster wall. Man those cans really blew up. I wonder who put them in there [rolleyes] |
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You see the problem here is one of global warming. Global warming caused the bunny huggers to ban the use of Clohro Flouro Carbons like freon. These were in non flamable propellants used in areosol items. With the destruction of the ozone areosol companies switched to propane for thier propellant. It's a canned air fuel bomb just waiting for the air and ignition source. This is why hair spray burns and kids get burned at birthday parties when they shoot thier cans of silly string too close to the candles on the cake. |