Posted on 06/04/2004 9:06:49 AM PDT by jtminton
I blew up a tire yesterday on my bike using a handpump, the dog bit me because of it!
LOL!! And I bet you forgot to have the video camera running.
I knew what had happened before I ever opened the thread, I've kept abreast of these types of incidents for some 20 years now, the tide of idiots never ebbs.
Had he removed the valve core, he probably would have been okay unless he set the rubber on fire and burned his face off.
I'm so old I remember when they sold "curb-alarms" at Western Auto stores. :)
The pressure increases to critical levels as a resault of the applied heat.
Absolutely unnecessary to explain the explosion, although worth investigating just to resolve all details.
Nope, had the core been removed the gasoline? would have boiled or flamed off, not exploded.
Sorry, the flammable mixture would in all likelihood simply burn like a lantern under the circumstances you propose.
Because its a mixture of fibreglass strands and a collodial glycol that is murder to clean off; the flammable gas is used because Freon was outlawed for that purpose and would be far more likely to be ignited by a tire changer than by a simple deflation method.
Try blowing out the flame at 17PSI and report back to us.
Western Auto stores? When I was a kid we had to patch innertubes when we had a flat tire!
'Western Auto'! Bah! Humbug!
:)
There's no oxygen inside the tank, you dunderhead!
This seems to be a case of exothermic decomposition. No oxygen required.
I'm fairly confident I couldn't blow it out at 7, so I think it's safe to assume I'm not going to have any better luck at 17.
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