Tonights mini lab explosion.
Added 2019-02-02 02:27:32 +0000 UTCWell that's made a mess. Tonight's lab (kitchen) incident involved quite a loud bang, broken glass and a mixture of water and wax loaded with solvent spreading itself over quite a large area.
Can you guess what I was making? (I really shouldn't get distracted while "accelerated" things are in progress.)
Comments
Try an iron with papaer cloths for the wax.
Hub Rijcks
2019-02-11 12:28:46 +0000 UTCYes. I do now have a good working lava lamp in a similar bottle.
Big Clive
2019-02-09 22:55:34 +0000 UTCYou were trying to make a lava lamp right?
Leon Schutte
2019-02-09 21:26:07 +0000 UTCYou said it, I laughed.. yep, we're old! :)
mikenco
2019-02-08 09:19:45 +0000 UTCExperimental DIY lava lamps that are working a treat. (The one that went bang was being "accelerated".)
Big Clive
2019-02-03 22:03:12 +0000 UTCTrying to reverse engineer the plug in the iodine cotton buds?
Mark Dennehy
2019-02-03 18:03:33 +0000 UTCProbably too much chance of recording "incriminating" events... <.>
Daddy Bearcat
2019-02-03 16:41:23 +0000 UTCLava lamp + bubble tube mash-up?
Sebastian Rietig
2019-02-03 12:00:16 +0000 UTCPrototype lava lamp?
Dave Davies
2019-02-03 11:07:56 +0000 UTCThe thing you were doing... ....was it "Brazilian"?
2019-02-03 09:58:31 +0000 UTC6 dollar a month voyeurism package...
Michael Gilchrest
2019-02-03 04:46:26 +0000 UTCDefinitely time to invest in a CCTV system. A camera above the workbench, another with an overall view of the room (in case something flies across the room) and another covering the kitchen workbench/cooker area.
Seán Byrne
2019-02-02 18:25:59 +0000 UTCI am getting sick (LOL) of BC telling about these "incidents" without an accompanying video! I'm for 24/7 web cam in the lab too!
2019-02-02 18:23:22 +0000 UTCHot water followed up by sugar soap works well. I've had to fetch wax off the hob more than a couple of times during various projects.
Matthew Halfpenny
2019-02-02 17:57:11 +0000 UTCWe need 24-7 live coverage. No telling when something will happen.
Robert Sanges
2019-02-02 17:17:16 +0000 UTCSo how much fun is cleaning up wax that blew all over the kitchen? Once that cools I bet it is a bugger to get off of everything.
2019-02-02 16:18:00 +0000 UTCSafety is always priority one. Once you've seen to our entertainment, it's absolutely top priority after that. The very second after we've got some interesting new material, nothing else matters besides that you're alright!
2019-02-02 16:10:58 +0000 UTCImportant question: did you have a camera running?
Paul Schuur
2019-02-02 15:53:59 +0000 UTCI hope the explosion containment pie dish did it's job. If it didn't its time to play 'Air on a G String' and light a cigar.
Nuts 'n' Proud
2019-02-02 14:59:42 +0000 UTCHasn't appeared on the BBC News so it can't be that bad after all!! :-D
Stephen Eyles
2019-02-02 12:14:33 +0000 UTCmay be it was a lithium powered lava lamp :)
Richard Boyce
2019-02-02 11:55:09 +0000 UTCI'm now imagining a loud bang followed by Clive calmly thinking "Oh, that'll be another lithium cell." 😁
2019-02-02 09:55:02 +0000 UTCWas it a lava lamp with the LEDs replaced by those electrically ignitible explosive charges? ;-)
Christian Grothaus
2019-02-02 09:40:24 +0000 UTCWait, you tease us with "Mini explosion" and then there's no video? I just don't know. Clive, Clive, Clive, I feel so let down. My whole weekend will be a disappointment now...
Pixscotland
2019-02-02 08:36:58 +0000 UTCMy first prediction, as well
Andrew Sloniger
2019-02-02 08:24:43 +0000 UTCSounds like something you would give to your mother-in-law ;-)
Gordo
2019-02-02 08:15:57 +0000 UTCLava Lamp
Steven Cox
2019-02-02 05:28:18 +0000 UTCTest setup with a suitable bottle on an old Mathmos candle powered base. Slightly over exuberant candle. I thought I'd left the top loose enough to vent if pressure built up.
Big Clive
2019-02-02 05:11:00 +0000 UTC<a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/98/99/149899c616fc18944ddf675662a6b46e.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/98/99/149899c616fc18944ddf675662a6b46e.jpg</a>
2019-02-02 05:09:29 +0000 UTCIt happened while I was in another room. Loud bang and a fizzing noise. At first I thought a random lithium cell had let rip.
Big Clive
2019-02-02 05:09:15 +0000 UTCNo camera involved. It was a project in preparation.
Big Clive
2019-02-02 05:08:31 +0000 UTCI would guess you were making a lava lamp, but you would have to tell us how it exploded.
Chris Blair
2019-02-02 04:39:59 +0000 UTC"No boom?" "No boom." "No boom TODAY. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here!"
2019-02-02 04:12:31 +0000 UTCWe are going to have to get 8 people to hold you down and strap a camera on you!!! All the cool stuff happens when you are not recording.. :(
Lostngone
2019-02-02 04:08:02 +0000 UTCplease say the camera survived
God 420
2019-02-02 03:53:08 +0000 UTCfanny boom boom ?
God 420
2019-02-02 03:50:15 +0000 UTCNapalm?
Matt Enwright
2019-02-02 03:09:12 +0000 UTCHeating Baked Beans in a Pyrex jug, on a gas hob can produce similar headlines..
mikenco
2019-02-02 03:02:10 +0000 UTCA Brazilian.
2019-02-02 03:01:18 +0000 UTCYou getting your legs wax again Clive?
Dane
2019-02-02 03:00:56 +0000 UTCsounds like way more than 14 parts :)
Moz in Oz
2019-02-02 02:54:00 +0000 UTC😳
2019-02-02 02:45:00 +0000 UTClava lamp part 14?
Michael Thompson
2019-02-02 02:44:36 +0000 UTCThat's not how you make crystal meth.
2019-02-02 02:34:38 +0000 UTCMake sure your dishes are true Pyrex.
Patrick 'Chef_PC' Cusher
2019-02-02 02:33:59 +0000 UTCLol oh indeed
Neil Tonks
2019-02-02 02:30:02 +0000 UTCOr very right.
Julien Goodwin
2019-02-02 02:29:19 +0000 UTCSounds like a lava lamp going wrong
Neil Tonks
2019-02-02 02:28:36 +0000 UTC
