LPG
likes thicc birds
I need to stay out of these conversations!!!
Confessions from the fuckwits
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Squidfayce
Eats Squid
fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
Squidfayce
Eats Squid
back in the 90's it was not uncommon for kids to blow shit up for fun. Cmon.
LPG
likes thicc birds
Haha, it's a variation of my name/initials. I've got technical knowledge in some areas but the extent of LPG in this is using it to heat bloody big gears and similar to shrink them on shafts.
Squidfayce
Eats Squid
My first fire training session was conducted by a guy who ran the fire response department at Sydney airport in the 70s or 80s. He had two 45kg gas bottles connected together with a single copper pipe sticking out. He would open up the valves and walk away and throw a lit cigarette into the gas stream. Boooooom and the fire was massive. Shooting out into the open away from us. Then he would talk to us about other stuff. The whole time everyone is looking at this massive flame. After a couple of minutes he said that, gesturing to the flames, that is nothing to be concerned about and walked over and turned off the valves. Then relit it the same way. He said that is only a problem if it is fueling another fire or there is heat reflected onto the bottles. If you cannot get to the valves and it is just burning in the air let it burn out. He then asked a few of us to extinguish the flames with various extinguisers. Each time one worked he lit it again. Finally after a few guys tried water extinguishers he said so water can't put out a gas flame? Most agreed. He then turned on the hydrant mains and smashed it with the fire hose. Yep it went out. Then he had the smallest demo foam system I have ever seen. He showed us what the foam can do. Hooked that to a 9L water extinguisher and put out the fire. Really impressive. Sadly that particular stuff was deemed too nasty.
In the time I was there his record was hundreds of fires lit, one real and very nasty fire extinguised with no injuries.
In the time I was there his record was hundreds of fires lit, one real and very nasty fire extinguised with no injuries.
Squidfayce
Eats Squid
thats even worse lol. At least using some sparklers they would have had time to get away
nathanm
Eats Squid
I too did a fire course 20 years ago. Similar demo with gas but the one I really loved was a cup full of water tipped onto a cooking Oil Fire in a pot.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Flow-Rider
Burner
We had a gas forklift refuelling station catch on fire next door, the tank didn't breakup into pieces, but it shot the inspection hatch to the tank like a missile. The tanks have to be a certain thickness so that they can withstand the heat, not sure if it was designed for the hatch to release the pressure. Health and safety and the fire people went and done an examination of it after it exploded.
Flow-Rider
Burner
They're fairly safe if you follow all the safety procedures, people become complacent and ignorant, then trouble follows.
Isildur
The Real Pedant
Ha, my comment was very tongue in cheek, perhaps I should have said "new and exciting" ways to burn off my pads
And my slicko experiment is documented somehwere in the annals of this very thread.In all seriousness though, the BBQ isn't my preferred pad heater - the taste of pad material isn't great with steak!
cammas
Seamstress
I love when people don’t believe you when you tell them that sugar is flammable especially when they are busted hiding behind the silo smoking, which is where it’s most dangerous, nothing like a sugar or flour dust fire. Did a fire warden course years ago where the instructor had a small tank with flour and a naked flame, puffed in a bit of air to unsettle the flour and whoosh up in flames, sugar is no different but some people will never believe it.
fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
ForkinGreat
Knows his Brassica oleracea
Molten sugar is responsible for some nasty burns.
Sugar dust exploding is some next-level shit.
