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It's a WorkSafeBC video... yeah it's Canadian, but the process is universal! ;~)
Combustible Wood Dust Explosions
Aug 24, 2016
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I kinda liked Bugs Bunny cartoons, too.
strange they went to all the trouble to do it with animation and not just shoot video from real shops and mills
also i wonder if it really does need an electric spark
thought that if conditions were adequate combustion could occur spontaneously
grain silos can do that
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And non-dairy coffee creamer:
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But your table saw can't.
With enough black powder you could probably get a good secondary explosion of dust.
Markem wrote in news:so7vrbt4ubncic6vq9pfgpfu7rv5f0ecl7 @4ax.com:
Still requires an ignition source -- but what are you doing with black powder in your wood shop anyway?
You find it strange that someone sat in a cubicle and put the piles of sawdust exactly where they wanted them, then set a pile of sawdust on fire with a spark from a motor and then allowed a series of ever expanding explosions to eventually destroy an entire plant in a massive conflagration?
You would rather have seen the real thing?
Are you volunteering your shop for such a video?
Getting ready to fire these:
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Making roman candles.
Wyle E. Coyote made bigger bangs with less. More realistic, anyway.
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