OT/ Clothes Dryer and Fireworks

john d · Jul 3, 2009

Dryer post below prompted me to do some cleaning on our dryer, and it needed it. Thanks, Ray!

With the proximity to July 4, I remembered a newspaper article of last summer on a dryer and fireworks. I'm NOT suggesting this as a dryer cleaning method!
Ka Boom

supergrumpy · Jul 3, 2009

I looked all over my room but didn't find anything like that

Walterdavies · Jul 3, 2009

There are some problems with this story.
1. Where would an 11 year old get professional aerial bombs from.
2. The amount of damage and the boy was only 3 to 4 feet away and he could still talk to and hear the police.
3. If you have ever played with explosives as a kid you know that being that close to one that did that much damage you would be dead or very near death.
4. How does a Barbecue skewer light the fireworks.
Walt
PS I think they need to talk more with the Boy he is obviously leaving something out.

bo · Jul 3, 2009

Yeh, me also. Been 2 years. Oh, the leaf blower doesn't work worth a darn in a corrugated aluminum dryer vent. Lint needs to be mechanically removed. 2 years ago, the dryer quit and there was thermocouple or something that blew by the dryer fan. I had replaced the ignitor (gas dryer) but it didn't fix it so I tracked further and I took off the back plate and then the chute where the air goes past the filter....and it was just loaded with lint. I think the lint put pressure on the fan, the fan stopped and the motor blew the little cheap relay or whatever it was. It didn't ohm out so I got a new one....worked after that. I took off the back again this time and it had lint in it but not as bad.

GeneMO · Jul 3, 2009

My kinda kid!!

Gene

Brian Jasper co. Ia · Jul 3, 2009

I'm thinking there's more to it as well. There are some pretty good explosions on youtube. Just search for "sparkler bomb". There are a few dryers that were blown 100+ feet in the air.

PJH · Jul 4, 2009

I had a friend who was young then and just getting started as a mechanic. He had a one bay shop, and to save money - his wife would wash his shop rags. She'd first wash them out with gasoline to get the worst grease out, then run them through the washer. One day she forgot to put in the soap, and when she raised the lid, the switch set off the fumes. It blew the double hung window out of the house, frame and all. She had some minor flash type burns, and a temporary ringing in her ears. Her husband thought the quarry down the road had set off a blast.

That was the end of washing the shop rags.

Paul

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