A reminder to take care with aerosols...

A reminder that we should take car when using aerosols in our workshops

Fortunately the driver was OK...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-50810196

Only if you smoke......

makes me ashamed to be a Yorkshireman, wot a plonker!

I bet no amount of air freshener could get rid of the smell from his pants after this.

It just shows what can happen I use a lot of spray cans for finishing some of the things I make.

You can't beat 'stupid'.

I remember back when I was a teenager, throwing a 1/4 full paint aerosol can on the bonfire in the back garden, and then shooting at it with my air rifle, a Webley Junior. Fortunately, I was twenty feet away, as the flamethrower like fireball reached about fifteen feet in my direction.

I had a scare and lucky escape as a teenager. Short verson, I was using a 1.5" torch with regulator on the LPG tank in a closed workshop. After a while of using it at bench level, I lowered the torch and there was gentle "woof" ans a sea of flame spread across the workshop a about knee hight. I stood there watching it burn down and waited for a bang that never came. The hose was damaged at the regulator fitting and had leaked. I did not even loose an eyebrow, very very lucky. If there had been a draft to mix the gas and air there would have been a big bang. As it was the layer on the floor was so rich it just burnt at the gas air interface.

You don't have to be a smoker, any spark, from a brushed motor like a drill, grinding etc can cause ignition.

Robert G8RPI.

Perhaps it is a shame that drunk drivers cannot generate enough of a flammable atmosphere inside a car. But, then again, it might not need as much air freshener to reach that explosive level....

We share our campus with a secondary school and there are regular fire alarms when a PE class of teenagers has been spraying too much Lynx on, despite there being a ban on it.

As to what constitutes how much deodorant a teenage boy considers they need? - nobody has ever found a limit on it!!

I made parsnip and parsley soup and the smell of it cooking (in an electric soup maker) set off the gas detector!

Neil

^^Mmmmmm, parsnips, even though not roasted, 'tis the season for soups and gastric juices run wild, as do olfactory senses, and devil take the gas detector.
DaveD

Hi Robert, Propane if that is what you were using would have a habit of creeping up on you as it is heavier than air. You probably had less than 2.2% by volume of air, as its explosive limits are 2.2 to 9.5% by volume of air which made it more likely to burn rather than explode. Still a bit scary though, all the same I guess.

Regards Nick.

The joys of LPG, where I used to work, the potential worst case scenario had a fireball of 1mile in diameter.

Hence the 'joke' that we needed to evacuate to at least three fields away , in our case, Huddersfield.

When at school we used to fill people's pencil cases with gas from the lab taps.

You could light the hole at the end of the zip and it would burn gently.

If they picked it up before the gas was exhausted, then ... whoof!

Not that I would condone such stupid behaviour...

Neil

Over thirty years ago, during a moment of madness when we were bored, a colleague and I decided to see how explosive aerosol cans could be. The cans were filled with a powder held in a butane propellant but were deemed life-ex so had to disposed off. We lit a fire in a dustbin type incinerator, and when hot enough we dropped cans in and retreated to a safe distance; after a short wait the cans performed with a loud noise and were propelled to about fifty feet high when they ruptured. It was fortunate we were a safe distance away because they certainly went with some Force. Any cans with butane as the propellant should be kept well away from heat and flames, also the stunt we performed should not be repeated it was very dangerous and we were lucky not to get injured,

Dave W

When I was a lad, I grew up on a farm. In those days a bonfire was the standard way of dealing with waste. My father asked me to dispose of a sack from the dairy. On the fire it went. A couple of minutes later there was a bang and an aerosol whizzed past my ear very fast and very close. My dad was mortified and very apologetic that he forgot that he had put it in the rubbish sack. It could have been very nasty.

Akin to taking a shower just before you go mud wrestling - speaks volumes.

People have been maimed and killed by aerosols and gas cylinders in bonfires. Just reminded me of the time someone threw a full box of 303 cartidges into an incenerator (45 gallon drum) with the empty packing on the range at Army Cadet Force annual camp. Bits of brass case flying everywhere but no injuries. The bullets don't go far as they are too heavy. Not so much Health and Safety in the seventies.

Robert G8RPI.