I dont get it ? how could this cause an explosion ?

chezzer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8153387.stm



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A German man has blown up his flat while trying to mend an inflatable mattress, local fire officials say.The man from the western city of Dusseldorf used car tyre solvent to repair a hole and left it overnight.
But when he tried to inflate the mattress the next day, it was ignited by a spark from an electric air pump.

So how would repair solvent cause an explosion ? - even if it's flammable it shouldn't be enough...

FunkZ

I always thought the only thing Germans were good for were dirty words and even dirtier porn, looks like I'm wrong!

Whosbetter?

OP, Are you not blowing this out of all proportion? :pac:

jonoliver28

chezzer wrote: »

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So how would repair solvent cause an explosion ? - even if it's flammable it shouldn't be enough...

its compressed gas in a confined space, its common knoweldge that compressed gas can explode if there is an ignition source.
even the metal connector from the valve and the pump cause sparks and if it's being blown up and too much causing it yo leak then you get a big bank,

I have read an article on this regarding a tractor tyre, unfortunatley it does happen

chezzer

jonoliver28 wrote: »

its compressed gas in a confined space, its common knoweldge that compressed gas can explode if there is an ignition source.
even the metal connector from the valve and the pump cause sparks and if it's being blown up and too much causing it yo leak then you get a big bank,

I have read an article on this regarding a tractor tyre, unfortunatley it does happen

but its air ??

it should just be very loud ... not with the cabability of burning and blowing windows out !

ejmaztec

Whosbetter? wrote: »

OP, Are you not blowing this out of all proportion? :pac:

That's only a mattress of opinion.

Zadkiel

chezzer wrote: »

but its air ??

it should just be very loud ... not with the cabability of burning and blowing windows out !

More to do with the Car tyre solvent I'd imagine

chezzer

Zadkiel wrote: »

More to do with the Car tyre solvent I'd imagine

Perhaps ... he must have used a sh*tload of the stuff!!!

jonoliver28

chezzer wrote: »

but its air ??

it should just be very loud ... not with the cabability of burning and blowing windows out !

its a chemical with a liquid sustance to coat the inside of a tyre, to seal the hole, its a compressed gas and not just air.

when it exploded, there must have also been a source of ignition in the room, this must have acted like a small explosion and caused a gas leak, who knows???
then again the report is not clear either, but it can happen, and it is not just air in the bottle, its compressed gas, pretty the same as most areosoles

Run_to_da_hills

He was probably using his arse to inflate it and the methane gas caused it to explode :eek:.

Dun laoire

chezzer wrote: »

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So how would repair solvent cause an explosion ? - even if it's flammable it shouldn't be enough...

sometimes we're just like that,for example

citizen_p

chezzer wrote: »

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So how would repair solvent cause an explosion ? - even if it's flammable it shouldn't be enough...

the pressure....

gun powder just sizzles unless you wrap it up... then it explodes

AnonoBoy

Look I'll explain this one the way I explain everything that I don't understand:

"A wizard did it."

Ishmael

chezzer wrote: »

but its air ??

it should just be very loud ... not with the cabability of burning and blowing windows out !

Air contains Oxygen which when pressurized around various substances will make them flammable, even if they were not so before hand.

Dublin_Gunner

Ishmael wrote: »

Air contains Oxygen which when pressurized around various substances will make them flammable, even if they were not so before hand.

In other words the compressed oxygen (which is highly flammable by itself) provided as a catalyst to whatever other chemicals it mixed with from the tyre repair solvent.

**See's a load of provo's queuing outside QuickFit**

Smart Bug

OP, think of it this way: bad gas goes boom-boom.

See, nice and simple.