Video - exploding water heater

Posted by on September 25, 2005, 10:50 am

Today's paper had an article about checking the relief valve on the
water heater, this link shows a "demonstration" of the power of an
exploding water heater...

http://www.waterheaterblast.com/index.html

Oren

"My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland
and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore
excused from saving Universes."

Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on September 25, 2005, 6:55 pm

> Today's paper had an article about checking the relief valve on the
> water heater, this link shows a "demonstration" of the power of an
> exploding water heater...
> http://www.waterheaterblast.com/index.html

Neat. Steam sure has lot of power once built up.

Posted by on September 25, 2005, 5:14 pm

wrote:

>Neat. Steam sure has lot of power once built up.

@ a 12 gallon tank in the demo... (locomotives I bet were hell!)

Oren

"My doctor says I have a malformed public-duty gland
and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore
excused from saving Universes."

Posted by Doug Boulter on September 26, 2005, 11:36 pm

oren@at.us wrote on 25 Sep 2005:

> locomotives I bet were hell!

Actually, the worse problem was riverboats. People who weren't
killed in the explosion itself were likely to drown.

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Doug Boulter

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Posted by Toller on September 25, 2005, 7:22 pm

Thanks for posting that.
I just saw a TV show about inventions. It said that exploding water heaters
were pretty common before the T&P valve was invented.

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