Hot water heater explosion

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Have a look at what a boiler failure looks like.... Watch it go thru the roof of the shed like a rocket.

Eric

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv178a60Ypg&feature=related[/ame]

 

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Here is another for good measure:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUeCk0OcQMQ[/ame]

 

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Eric,

Great stuff.

Even though larger than we use, it does show the sort of devastation that can occur if one is made incorrectly or overpressured.

A little bit more than a cut finger.

John

 

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Mythbusters is my favorite show. They learned alot from that boiler explosion, they learned that they could make a boiler with a water heater.

Mythbusters utilised this idea in the steam machine gun episode,
[ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=YKhLgPyymfU[/ame]

I like and dislike this idea, it has an atvantage of being cheap and easy. But can be deadly like in the video you showed.