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Re: My new toy is on the way.
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2025, 12:42:00 AM »
I saw a video of a rail-car implosion. SCIENCE! That would be awesome to see in person. The 55 gallon drum must have been too. Around here, making excessive noise is illegal (no fun aloud ;)) so shooting the can cannon is a vacation tine activity.

I still have some camo tape left and my CCU is setting here, so it will likely get some tape before long. Not the forend I don't think, but the receiver tube. Maybe a strip on top of the rail too. I already did the forearm of my VRF14 not-a-shotgun. I'll try to remember to post pics when I have it back together.
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Re: My new toy is on the way.
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2025, 11:29:43 AM »
For my children's TV show's The Professor segment we did implode one.  The scream is genuine surprise by one of the cast, because it takes a while for the vacuum to build up.
I'll save you the full lenght, 5 minute setup portion, though co-starring with The Professor is Construction Charlie (me).


https://vimeo.com/1070385032?share=copy#t=0
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Re: My new toy is on the way.
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2025, 10:09:35 PM »
Some years ago out of Lafayette, LA, a coiled tubing company had an incident with a liquid nitrogen transport tank.  Liquid nitrogen is used to provide lift in old wells to clean them out, etc.  Anyway it's pumped through a heater and then down the well through a big coil of tubing.  Whilst unloading the transport the crane operator at the dock somehow dropped it in the water....which covered up the relief valve which vents nitrogen as the tank warms up.  The relief valve is a very normal thing as the transports always vent some nitrogen...however in this particular instance water got into the piping and froze as a solid block of ice in the vent piping to atmosphere.  About 2 AM the tank exploded and leveled a big industrial building..very violent and very fortunate no one was working that night as anyone within the fenced area would have been killed. 
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Re: My new toy is on the way.
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2025, 08:39:16 AM »
:o  Extremes of pressure and temperature are nothing to treat casually. Here's a video of a rail tanker imploding. I wonder how much vacuum it was pulling? The last 6 seconds of music is Sirius by The Alan Parsons Project.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkC_oi0ksuw
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