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12-03-2019, 12:28pm | #1 | ||||||
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What happens when you put wet scrap metal in a furnace?
Maybe this guy needs to buy a lotto ticket or a change of shorts - maybe both.
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Damn! That escalated quickly!
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Yikes !
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Well, at least hes warm.
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I think when you add water to a fire that hot, you get an oxygen fire, because there's oxygen in water. I worked at a print shop once where we had a small table saw that we used to trim embossing dies made out of magnesium. Over time, the five gallon bucket that caught the shavings from the mag had filled up. A spark ignited it and we quickly had a white hot fire.
One of the idiots I worked with came running around the corner with a bucket of water to throw on it. I practically tackled him to keep him from throwing it on the fire, because I think it would have had results similar to what happened in the video. We lifted the burning bucket by getting a mop handle under the wire handle and took it out to the parking lot and let it burn itself out. It made a hole in the asphalt. |
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Magnesium is an alkali metal and the only way to extinguish is with a "special Class D fire extinguisher" or dry sand. The Class D extinguisher or sand will act as a smothering agent on the metal fire.
Most fire extinguishers are Class A-B-C. |
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That dude was extremely lucky
It burns under water too. They showed that in science class in 7th grade. Quote:
Once the booster were filled with the wet slurry, they were moved to building a few miles away from anything to dry. Once they are lit/burning, the only way they go out is when they burn up all the fuel. We had a job where we had to weld magnesium. We were REQUIRED to have someone in the welding area with a Class D fire extinguisher ready to put out a fire when the welder was welding. |
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12-04-2019, 8:17am | #10 | ||||||
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One of the large industrial plants I worked in had stuff that water made much worse and the only thing you could do was smother it with a dry sand. The building was off to one side and there were all sorts of containers around with a shovel and sand handy. There was also a large garage type building just loaded with that sand nearby. |
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I worked in an office at one of the largest green sand foundries in NA. One day we heard a huge blast that shook the building. Later found out that as they were loading scrap metal into the furnace, evidently there was a crushed 55 gallon barrel that had a couple of gallons of water in it. Got everyone’s attention
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Heh, dude backed up pretty quick. Imagine if he had used that half an atom of a brain before combining wet and molten metal.
Story time... So there we were unloading a segment of an ICBM from a C-141 to a tractor trailer. The segment was at the pivot point of the aircraft and the trailer. All of a sudden, the sound of metal on metal screeching was heard. I began running and so did everyone else. In hindsight, I coulda saved my breath. If there had been a bang, I wouldn't have known it. Evidently, the aircraft crew member miscalculated the remaining fuel on board. When the segment reached the pivot point, the aircraft nose raised and thus the screeching. |
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I’m pretty sure he is doing it wrong. But I’m no metaloligicalistic man.
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