I Almost Burned My House Down
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title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">because I r not smart</div> Now laugh at me.
Or do you want a story first?
I was bored, I had a bad of sparklers left over from the 4th, and sparklers suck, so I emptied the powder out of one into a film canister, mixed it up, and somehow, I won't say how, but know it has to do with me being stupid, a spark got into the powder.
A jet of sparks shot up from my desk, lasting maybey 5 seconds, and them y room was filled with somke, and it was fun, and I went on IRC and complained about it. They laughed at me in there as well.
Well, I opened my window, that didn't do anything, so eventually, I left my room via the window, removed the battery from the smoke alarm outside my room. I currently have my swamp cooler on and my bedroom door open, as well as all the windows in the house in hopes of airing it out.
God, I hope my room doesn't smell of smoke for a very long time...
Remember kiddies, don't play with fire, especially not when combined with gun powder...
Or do you want a story first?
I was bored, I had a bad of sparklers left over from the 4th, and sparklers suck, so I emptied the powder out of one into a film canister, mixed it up, and somehow, I won't say how, but know it has to do with me being stupid, a spark got into the powder.
A jet of sparks shot up from my desk, lasting maybey 5 seconds, and them y room was filled with somke, and it was fun, and I went on IRC and complained about it. They laughed at me in there as well.
Well, I opened my window, that didn't do anything, so eventually, I left my room via the window, removed the battery from the smoke alarm outside my room. I currently have my swamp cooler on and my bedroom door open, as well as all the windows in the house in hopes of airing it out.
God, I hope my room doesn't smell of smoke for a very long time...
Remember kiddies, don't play with fire, especially not when combined with gun powder...
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I once had a pot full of home-made experimental smoke powder bubbling over a fire. It got so hot that it burnt of its own accord. There was about a kilogram of material in there. It fired a column of purple glowing smoke two meters into the air. It smoked out my (large) back yard so badly that you couldn't see a meter in front of you. It also got my next-door-neighbour's house pretty badly too.
A little furry cactus that had been 30cm away from the pot was blackened and charred on one side from the radiated heat.
Totally awesome.
--Scythe--
You won't say how the spark got in? Coz I'm intrigued. Having a quick *** maybe?
F-A-G ITS A CIGARETTE FOR GAWDS SAKES.
Be careful, your neighbor might be spying on you, and voila Patriot Act on the door!
Did you know you can make nitro on a stove top?
Well aparently my friend didn't know that you were not suposed to either (flame is to unstable).
he managed to not blow up his oven, just his kitchen table.
yah, don't play with nitro
Oopsie.
I once mixed KNO3 (saltpeter) with Sugar 50/50 in a water solution (heat it a little to get as much saltpeter as possible in, then pour the same measure sugar in (wheigt it before) since sugar dissolves to a much greater rate in water than saltpeter.
If you now drench paper towels or cotton stuff in this and let it dry these stuff gets very explosive if burnt.
Now since both stuffs are very cheap i amde a quite large bowl of them and couldn´t use all of it for my smokebombs/explosives. So i let the rest dry in. This makes some really nice, little hygroscopic crystals. I had around 300gr of these crystals.
So i treid if they burnt on their own.
Well i broke one of the smaller ones out (1cm /o ) laid it on a little aluminium foil and lighted it with a pocket lighter. It was a little difficult, but one the reaction started it burned very fast in a magenta flame, spewing liquid saltpetersalt wich was burning all over the place.
The aluminium foil melted, since that stuff really got hot.
So i got a small bullion iron i had lieing around and tried a larger crystal (3cm).
I have to say, this worked to well. It spewed one of these little flameballs directly into the pan, where the rest of the mix was lieing (around 1m from the place i ignited the stuff). And to make things worse, the whole stuff cought fire creating a pink fire column from around 1,5m hight wich was littering the ground (my balcony) with liquid buring saltpeter.
This spectalce created losts of acidic white smoke and lasted for around 2 minutes or so.
After that the fire died down, the pan was burned through (thats where the rest of the stuff was) and everything 2m from the thing was covered in 2mm now hardened saltpeter. If it was flammable, it was completly burned.
Well, my balcony was plated with wood at that time <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And it got stiff around 700gr saltpeter lieing around ^^ gotta do that sometime again on the open field.
The smoke lasted for around 3 hours above our house and it did not dissolve in the air, it had to be blown away by wind.
luckily i was able to convinve the neighbours not to call the fire department.
The balcony was completly wasted and a lot of work to restore, but over all it was great fun.
What do we learn from this Kids?
RIGHT!! Don´t play with fire
Big pile of yellowish glowing sparkly steel wool. I quickly picked it up with a screw driver and carried it of to a bath tub and hosed it down with some water. Well, carrying it around quickly gives it a LOT of extra oxygen so you can feel the radiant heat on your face and hands pretty intensely which was kinda cool.
I once had a pot full of home-made experimental smoke powder bubbling over a fire. It got so hot that it burnt of its own accord. There was about a kilogram of material in there. It fired a column of purple glowing smoke two meters into the air. It smoked out my (large) back yard so badly that you couldn't see a meter in front of you. It also got my next-door-neighbour's house pretty badly too.
A little furry cactus that had been 30cm away from the pot was blackened and charred on one side from the radiated heat.
Totally awesome.
--Scythe--<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Goddamn. You really are insane, Scythe. To be honest, I expect no less of you! <3
You won't say how the spark got in? Coz I'm intrigued. Having a quick *** maybe?
F-A-G ITS A CIGARETTE FOR GAWDS SAKES. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
you're a cigarette.
/clerks animated reference...
You won't say how the spark got in? Coz I'm intrigued. Having a quick *** maybe?
F-A-G ITS A CIGARETTE FOR GAWDS SAKES. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
you're a cigarette. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I coulda sworn I got game.
You won't say how the spark got in? Coz I'm intrigued. Having a quick *** maybe?
F-A-G ITS A CIGARETTE FOR GAWDS SAKES. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
you're a cigarette. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No need for such harsh talk. I just hate these silly words that are filtered coz apparently they're abusive.
1:1 remain one to one whether its a kilogram or 0.01 grams.
And 0.01 grams is much less likely to blow off your face than a kilogram.
Oh, and if you'd like to know where this spark came from, there was no spark. I took a peice of wire and heated the end to a nice orange glow, and stuck the end in the powder, yea, not smart...
I'm releived that I'm not the only one to have similar experiances, yay for teh interweb!
We had a cook that was kind of an idiot. He let his stuff get way to hot, so one time he had a pan of oil at several hundred degrees, right near the flash-point. Somehow, a thing of flour fell over. Small cloud of flour + gas burner + pan of oil near it's flash point= Gigantic fireball.
He saw the oil start to go, and booked down the line, covered maybe 20 feet in a second or so before it went kablooey. Now, when you run that fast, there's a momentary low pressure pocket behind you. Expanding gas, such as that found in a giant fireball of death, likes to fill low pressure areas. So what would have been your ordinary giant fireball of death turned into an elongated tounge of firey doom, that spanned at least 20 feet down the line, not to mention the crack of the grain explosion and, lets not forget, the fireball of death itself.
He was <i>so</i> fired.
That last line made that moreso funny than it would have else been, ooh, funny <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The quote from IRC will soon be seen as #83 out of 400000 bash.org quotes <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
(http://www.bash.org/?60469) el oh el
and there was this other time when shoelace got set on fire, while i was still wearing my shoes.....
Me and a mate of mine (Mike) were in the garden with aerosol cans, selotape and lighters. We held the aerosol at arms length, pressed down on the button and selotaped it down so it continuosly sprayed. We put a flame in front to make a mini-flame thrower which lasted about a good 5 minutes. We thought we would throw them the length of the garden in to a what we thought was empty container. To our surprise it caught a light after being tossed a good 20 feet. The container had a box of fireworks left over from bonfire night inside it, which were dumped by someone. My friends 2 month old kitten was hit but remarkably lived without a scratch to mark the event.
One time back in highschool I had a pyromaniac friend who set my jacket on fire.
While I was wearing it.