RichieST

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Hi guys and gals

For all of you who don't know what dry ice is, well here goes! Its is basically nitrogen gas, that is chilled to form a liquid, then a solid lump of ice, at about -180 degrees, so it is fookin cold!! As it warms back up to room temperature is turns into a gas again, but expanding about 50 times (if i remember right). Its the stuff they used on like top of the tops etc to make a fog on the stage.

So anyway, we use a load of this stuff at work, and whatever we have left over, we use to make bombs with, using a plastic coke bottle, half fill it with water, put dry ice in, then put the lid on

Anyway, we got bored of doing this, so we started putting the bottles inside stuff, this time it was in a big metal dustbin full of plastic media, which is identical to sand, just made from plastic

on this bomb, unfortunately the dry ice all disappeared, just leaving a highly pressurised coke bottle inside the bin, so my mate speared it with a broom handle with a stanley blade taped to the end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue05T80Zw98


Then we thought we'd do it properly, my mate james fills the bottle up and puts it in the bin, i chuck a bucket load of plastic media on top then so does my other mate to cover it properly, then watch what happens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YRzpyxdEDM

Needless to say it was fookin loud, and took ages to tidy up after

rich

R5FORD

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pmsl...so was it worth it?

RichieST

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lol yeah, we did one a few weeks back with a 2 litre bottle chuckled into the emergency watter supply, which is like a big pond! Set car alarms off and everything

Didn't get it on video tho unfortunately!!!

r5200bhp

fuzzy

so what is it your meant to be doing at work?

RichieST

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erm, i'm an aircraft service engineer for the RAF!!! I service C-130 Hercules's. The grey and white things you can see in the video on the pallet on the floor are wheel half hubs

Mark B

what do u use the ice for?

MB.

SS1

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shrinking parts for fitting maybe...

BM08

jonny knoxville wannabes

LilFezza

use the dry ice to keep the food cold on the aircraft

RichieST

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Correct!!! Top marks

Also correct!!

Its main use is for the fridges on the aircraft, but we also use it for fitting new bearing cups into the wheels. The wheel bearings look just the same as car ones, but are about 6" diameter. The cups that they sit in occasionally get damaged or pitted, so they need changing. The wheel is heated to about 120 degrees and the cups are chilled. The old cup is pressed out, and the new cup slides in, sometimes need 3000psi of pressure to get it in tho!!

rich

b_kennedy

We do the same lol. I work in catering for airlines at Heathrow. We always using dry ice

RichieST

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top action!! Got any other ideas as what we can do with it? Gets a bit boring doing bomb after bomb after bomb! Thought about putting it under my supervisors chair when he's asleep at lunchtime

My mate suggested we sellotaped some nails to one too

orionmojo

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jesus! lock him up quick

thats really cool.

b_kennedy

thought of nails too but bit fucking dangerous lol

I'll have a think and get back to you on that one. We were building them with 2 litre bottles of coke then rolling them over to the security cabin. Was Great

ram

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RichieST

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yV64sEmnkc

here's a quick vid of what was left! took fucking ages to get it off the ceiling, bearing in mind i'm 6ft3, and couldnt reach up there with a broom!!

lowman

we use dry ice on stage when im playing with my band
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