Re: The Mad Scientists Club- formerly Re: [FWD] Whoops! Wrong stealth pic in previous post!

From: Pat Flannery (flanner_at_daktel.com)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 03:25:04 -0500

David Lesher wrote:

>
>But the smoke is creeping in under the door. So he takes a K bottle
>[the official term for the cylinder Pat mentioned] and sets in on
>the counter, aimed at the block. He figures he'll shear off the
>valve with a hatchet, the tank will punch its way out through the
>block, and he escapes.
>
>BUT.. he is no fool. He knows that he may well go deaf from the
>noise of the 3000+psi gas escaping, and the cylinder can go any way
>IT wants... so he delays, and attacks the glass block with the hammer
>and screwdriver. He finally manages to punch a small hole through...
>

We had a case in Jamestown about 1960 where a full acetylene tank
slipped of a welding gas truck on main street, sheared it's top off on
impact with the street, and ended up going a couple of city blocks at
very high velocity as the gas escaped until it finally ending up going
through the front window of a diner, much to the surprise of the
noontime patrons. Luckily no one was injured or killed IIRC

>
>The rest of the building staff is standing across the road waiting
>for the building to clear of smoke when they see something waving....
>
>When PP entered the cell in Scott Air Packs and saw the cylinder and
>the hammer, and listened to what he'd planned.....
>

If the building at the airport caught fire, it was my intention to open
all the helium cylinders before leaving so that they wouldn't explode
while the firemen were trying to put out the fire, and at the same time
the helium gas would fill the building and might help extinguish the fire.
One of the strangest pieces of video I ever saw was a fire in a aluminum
baseball bat factory, which caused the bats to rupture and head through
the windows of the building like RPG-7 rockets.

Pat

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