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DaveyLC

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23rd Mar 10 at 08:59

A mate of mine who buys and sells cars had a car in which had a bit of a cloudy headlight so he decided to give it a clean, the only thing he could find to hand was some brake cleaner, so he squirted a bit in the head light and swilled it around then tipped it out.

Afterwards the light looked really clean but there were still driplets of brake cleaner inside so being the genius that he is he decided to dry it out using a heat gun.

You can guess what happened next!

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Half of his hair is singed and he's burnt all the hairs up his nose so all he can smell is burnt hair.

I nearlly pissed myself when he turned up at my house half bald with a red face and stinking of burnt hair and brake cleaner.

Marc

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23rd Mar 10 at 09:00

LOL

cjohnson

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23rd Mar 10 at 09:27

Lmao, I LOL'd at college

pow

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23rd Mar 10 at 09:28

FLOL

Tommy L

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23rd Mar 10 at 09:29

People like this should not be allowed outside.

Root

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23rd Mar 10 at 10:38

lol.

Rammer

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23rd Mar 10 at 11:06

nathy_87

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23rd Mar 10 at 12:44

quote:
Originally posted by corsa_tomtom
People like this should not be allowed outside.

gavin18787

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23rd Mar 10 at 14:11

Tinted lights though

Drives supercharged Tec with torque

Scotty_B

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23rd Mar 10 at 15:23

more like tinted face.

All Torque

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23rd Mar 10 at 16:48

Fantastic! I love stories like this.

Once at a car show at Billing there was a woman filling up her rat-rod with a Jerry can WHILE smoking. We all kept a nice 20foot radius and just watched in awe

Root

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23rd Mar 10 at 16:52

quote:
Originally posted by Scotty_B
more like tinted face.

Graham88

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23rd Mar 10 at 17:14

harrisp

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23rd Mar 10 at 17:24

quote:
Originally posted by All Torque
Fantastic! I love stories like this.

Once at a car show at Billing there was a woman filling up her rat-rod with a Jerry can WHILE smoking. We all kept a nice 20foot radius and just watched in awe

A cigarette wont ignite petrol.

All Torque

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23rd Mar 10 at 17:32

quote:
Originally posted by harrisp

quote:
Originally posted by All Torque
Fantastic! I love stories like this.

Once at a car show at Billing there was a woman filling up her rat-rod with a Jerry can WHILE smoking. We all kept a nice 20foot radius and just watched in awe

A cigarette wont ignite petrol.

....Why not?

harrisp

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23rd Mar 10 at 17:47

quote:
Originally posted by All Torque

quote:
Originally posted by harrisp

quote:
Originally posted by All Torque
Fantastic! I love stories like this.

Once at a car show at Billing there was a woman filling up her rat-rod with a Jerry can WHILE smoking. We all kept a nice 20foot radius and just watched in awe

A cigarette wont ignite petrol.

....Why not?

I dont know, but I was working on a bike with dad, and he was smoking and I mentioned that he would cause a fire or something along those lines, so he got a small container with petrol and put his fag out in it

Ingham

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23rd Mar 10 at 17:51

FLOL

Graham88

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23rd Mar 10 at 18:00

The fumes are flammable not the liquid, and it's more naked flames really. A cigarette could light petrol.

jacko198

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23rd Mar 10 at 18:51

Mythbusters tried it and it didn't work

richc

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23rd Mar 10 at 18:56

quote:
Originally posted by harrisp

quote:
Originally posted by All Torque

quote:
Originally posted by harrisp

quote:
Originally posted by All Torque
Fantastic! I love stories like this.

Once at a car show at Billing there was a woman filling up her rat-rod with a Jerry can WHILE smoking. We all kept a nice 20foot radius and just watched in awe

A cigarette wont ignite petrol.

....Why not?

I dont know, but I was working on a bike with dad, and he was smoking and I mentioned that he would cause a fire or something along those lines, so he got a small container with petrol and put his fag out in it.

lack of oxygen.

LeeM

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23rd Mar 10 at 20:57

somethin to do with its flashpoint or something, its the fumes which inite and only really explode under compression as well. still not the brightest thing though.

Root

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23rd Mar 10 at 20:59

It's the fumes that catch fire, not the liquid, your dad was right, but at the same time, you can guess hovering a cigarette around petrol fumes is a bad idea from the start. Still not clever to put it out in liquid petrol, as you're approaching it with the cigarette, it may catch the fumes.

DaveyLC

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23rd Mar 10 at 22:40

quote:
Originally posted by All Torque

quote:
Originally posted by harrisp

quote:
Originally posted by All Torque
Fantastic! I love stories like this.

Once at a car show at Billing there was a woman filling up her rat-rod with a Jerry can WHILE smoking. We all kept a nice 20foot radius and just watched in awe

A cigarette wont ignite petrol.

....Why not?

You can chuck a lit fag in a bucket of petrol.. Generally its not hot enough to ignite it.

taylorboosh

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23rd Mar 10 at 22:44

have you not seen robocop? the bloke on the bike blows the petrol station up with a fag.......... it can happen

Mike

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23rd Mar 10 at 22:49

Few years ago I was working in a garage, the other mechanic smoked. A car came in with a suspected petrol leak so he lit a cig then went and had a gander. Customer's face was priceless

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