welding oxygen

[Kelly Jessop]

Once we inflated a 40 gallon trash bag with acetylene and closed it with a rubber band. We tied a long string to it, and set it out in the field behind the shop. Then we lit a candle and set it on the ground, stood way back, and pulled the string to bring the trash bag into contact with the candle. The resulting thunderclap made us abandon our next plan of adding oxygen to the mix.

Bored guys and inflammable gases - good times!

Mike

Pretty cool,we did the same thing with hydrogen once.