| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,777 | I've made a few tennis ball cannons with similar fuel mixtures. Lacquer thinner vapor lit off with a spark plug will get the neighbors' attention for a block in all directions. I've also been known to impress the neighborhood kids when we lived in California with a Styrofoam coffee cup and a very lean oxy/acetylene mixture. That one rattled windows in the nearby houses, and the cup disappeared into a cloud of white powder! Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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