From: Paul A. Thomas (bluewhale@jaxkneppers.com)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 20:51:40 PDT
I can add my 2¢:
When just off the turnip truck in Korea in the late 70's we cleaned the
wheel bearings etc in half 55 gal drums filled with diesel. One '
orientation ' you went through was being busy with your arms up to your
elbows in diesel cleaning parts when someone would come up, light a match
and throw it into the diesel.
Unless it was a Really hot day the match would be snuffed out when it hit
the fuel. Then the others helped you recover your eyebrows from the
rafters. <g>
Paul
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At 09:25 AM 8/19/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>I happened to have an interesting... mishap(?)... with diesel at a
>campsite before. The story really needs to be told in person, but from my
>experience diesel doesn't burn well. It was February in Truckee,
>California, camping in several feet of snow in sub-zero temperatures.
>Pouring diesel on the small campfire actually put it out (Diesel taken
>from jerry cans off the back of a CUCV). Placing a tin of diesel next to
>the fire "to warm it up" proved to be a mistake. later in the evening the
>cup of fuel boiled over, burst into the air and atomized, just next to the
>camp fire, and just as a young trooper was walking inches away from it.
>
>The explosion produced a big roar, and a bright white-yellow light. So, if
>your HE explosion splatters the diesel around, it just may ignite it.
>Hollywood does use kerosene for all their pretty fire explosions, after all.
>
>As for the unlucky trooper? Luckily, there was plenty of cold snow for the
>guy to dive into after he was "blown up"
>
>
>Aaron Horrocks
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ryan M Gill [mailto:rmgill@mindspring.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:58 AM
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>Subject: [MV] HE and Diesel
>
>
>Does anyone have any experience with HE explosions next to diesel
>fuel engines and fuel tanks? How does diesel behave when treated
>unkindly to explosions? Does it merely get spread around or does it
>burst into a nice hot flame? I'm thinking in the context of armored
>vehicles.
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