Thread: Project: how to get a 44 gal drum into low earth orbit

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Definite potential for that to go wrong.

Ha ha. Reminded me of some chaps who wanted to give a workmate a hurryup. They drilled then screwed a spark plug and ht lead into the bottom of an empty aerosol can then put a squirt of acetylene in vi the top valve and hooked it up to his distrubutor under the bonnet of his car. The reaction was amazing.

Anvils!

Finally! A drumming circle I want to join!

Hot air balloons. There's plenty of it at the beehive

Yeah Woody, but the trick would be to figure out how to get them all into low earth orbit...

@Woody Saw that once in Sanfords in Tauranga engineers did it to a bosun who was being cuntiy. Filled a rubbish bag with acetylene taped in a spark plug and stuffed it up under the bonnet of his vauxhall Viva they all gathered around and gave him shit as he left work man was he wound up till he turned the key! Bonnet went about 10 feet into the air! He was white as a ghost and just sat there for ages. I recon he filled his pants

Way back when I was lot younger, somebody snuck in to the workshop of a local trucking company, one of the big ones. The workshop was high enough that you could lift the hoist on a tip truck or grain bin. And plenty of room to work on lotsa big arsed machinery. Anyways, whoever the culprit was, took his time and climbed something to get at the big workshop lights along the roof and carefully drilled a hole in all the lights in each and every one of them. Filled them up with acetylene and taped over the wee hole. Mechanics turned up for work the next morning and bugger me, when they turned the lights on, the all exploded one after the other!

Originally Posted by Sideshow

@Woody Saw that once in Sanfords in Tauranga engineers did it to a bosun who was being cuntiy. Filled a rubbish bag with acetylene taped in a spark plug and stuffed it up under the bonnet of his vauxhall Viva they all gathered around and gave him shit as he left work man was he wound up till he turned the key! Bonnet went about 10 feet into the air! He was white as a ghost and just sat there for ages. I recon he filled his pants

Those engineers don’t work there anymore! Closed and gone, we’re great customers of mine.

filled up a large heavy duty garbage bag with oxy acet as a kid, 60-80 litres size but pressurised tight as basketball, thankfully carried it out to the back lawn in bare feet so no static, learned a healthy respect for the power of oxy acet that day, worked out to be equivalent of 2 32mm sticks of powergel