Booze + Copper Water Heater Tank = Fun

Late night Hydrostatic Testing from a few weeks ago!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Booze
• Copper
• Water
• Heater
• Tank
• Fun
• over
• presure
• mains
• water
• coffee
• wall
• mount
• electric
• split
• explode

[BiLock102]

Cool, reminds me of a Mythbuster activitity they did; they got a normal electric water heater tank, removed the relief valve and thermostat, filled it up with water, plugged up all entries and turned it on, 30mins later,.,,,,,, explosion, dangerous but awesome the tank flew up in the air:D

[Aussie50]

@BiLock102 that was a awesome episode, again, If I had a fair bit of acreage I would try it myself!

[BiLock102]

@Aussie50 Cool, I would too, but I live next to a Primary School :(

It actually took 50minutes:D .....I think water tank sacricficial anodes are made of magnesium, they make good companions with fire

:D Thanks

[Aussie50]

@BiLock102 lol I used to take a file to the MG rods as a kid and mix the filings with potassium permanganate powder :D

how I never lost an eyebrow to that stuff I never know ;)

[walkingfreak]

14 bar of PRESSURE? HOLYCRAP our hot water tanks would explode too cause we only have 1.7 bar here!

[Aussie50]

@walkingfreak the pump had been tweeked a bit :D

my main is 100psi tho

[Aleksa809]

You could still keep it as a redneck sprinkler or something

[67tr876]

my main is 50 psi

[BiLock102]

@Aussie50 I use to file some down and burn it (with a welding mask:) ;for the sake of chemistry, prolly u and jagnut would have fun with sacrificial anodes if you would:D

[lazaglider]

There was a related incident over here recently, a big coffee machine in a cafeteria went bang, caused a scary amount of damage, people hurt etc.

[walkingfreak]

@Aussie50 still! my main is only 25psi haahaha