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rubber_jonnie wrote: 30 Jan 2026 15:22 Also, the office chair had no electrical component and you still set it on fire...

8-)

exxos wrote: 30 Jan 2026 15:23

rubber_jonnie wrote: 30 Jan 2026 15:22 Also, the office chair had no electrical component and you still set it on fire...

8-)

Don't forget where he could have impaled himself on the seat plunger when it blew up from overheating the oil and gas inside it :lol:

PhilC wrote: 30 Jan 2026 15:25

exxos wrote: 30 Jan 2026 15:23

8-)

Don't forget where he could have impaled himself on the seat plunger when it blew up from overheating the oil and gas inside it :lol:

Indeed...

PhilC wrote: 30 Jan 2026 15:25 Don't forget where he could have impaled himself on the seat plunger when it blew up from overheating the oil and gas inside it :lol:

You guys worry to much. :lol:

Did you know jam jars can explode? That one was a bit unexpected.

@exxos part of my last job (whilst I was able to work) was combustion engineering. Let's just say Jam Jars are the least of your worries :lol:

PhilC wrote: 30 Jan 2026 22:19 @exxos part of my last job (whilst I was able to work) was combustion engineering. Let's just say Jam Jars are the least of your worries :lol:

Oh?

I made beer with a friend once and we re-used Grolsch bottles because they have an integrated stopper.

We left it to brew and came back to it later and half the bottles had exploded in the crate, some having the bottom neatly cut off!!!

@PhilC that sounds interesting, please expand :) I'm guessing you are in the know about custard powder explosions, and other fine dust related ignitions?

@rubber_jonnie @exxos so I would get sent to site when there was a problem. One site had blown the flues off of their boilers due to poor maintenance, it even appeared in a national newspaper as the loud bang prompted a bomb scare.

Worst that happened to me was for a large boiled and I do mean large as I don't work on stuff smaller than a car typically, whilst I was kneeling in front of it, it had a gas explosion, blew me on to my arse, blew my tool box across the room and sent the boiler flue up like a rocket which came back down and lodged itself half way through another part of the factory roof.

And don't get me started on oil explosions, oil that has gasified is far more deadly than gas.

You can have explosions with quite a few different powders in the right circumstances. Typically in bakeries these days you have to reverse park into a parking space, just like at quarries where they deliberately blow stuff up.

If you want to see an interesting video, go on to YouTube and search for steam boiler explosions. There's a few interesting examples of blown up boilers on there. Steam boilers is the industry that I worked in. Incidentally, no explosions at my current/previous employer thanks to better equipment and well trained engineers :D

@PhilC Like this ?

@exxos nah, not quite that bad fortunately for me :lol: but you'll be surprised at the damage possible when a steam boiler explodes.