Does that really happen or is that just an urban legend??? I've never seen footage of it occuring. what u think?

 

:nono: :chuckles: Homemade incendiary grenade...on accident.

 

I've seen it happen with my own eyes, to a good friend of mine. Here's the way it went down.

Jon and I were wrenching on my old Swift GTi, installing a new exhaust system, and the can of silicon lubricant was nearly dead. I was half- underneath the car , so I asked Jon to go grab a new can from the shop. I handed him the old can, not thinking of much more than freeing the stock b-pipe bolts. So when I heard the "scritch" of a cig lighter, I figured Jon was trying something he shouldn't.

He called to me, and in the corner of the garage door frame is a spider, not quite the same size as the pic above, but close. Before I could stop him, he swatted the web, sending the spider flying down onto the driveway. He flicked the lighter on, and nailed him with reminant of propellant gas in the spray lubricant can.

I remember saying, "Oh shit!"

I instinctively punted the can out of his hand, kicking it clear of the car and the house, toward the one-lane road in front. In midair over my car, the can detonated with a very loud concussion, like a .45 being fired at about 4 feet.
Jon looked at the shards of the can lying in the road, then at his bruised hand, then me. I apologized for kicking his hand. Without a word, he stomped the spider, handed me the new can of WD-40 and laughed.

We both went back to work on the car.

 

shieeeeeeeeeet. good thing you kicked it.

 

i wonder if the can being almost empty had anything to do with the explosion occuring??

 

Exactly! :goodjob:

At that point, the can was about 99% propane by volume, a disaster waiting to happen. Hence my immediate reaction.

If it had gone off in his hand, we'd be talking about major burns, possibly lost fingers, definitely shrapnel in places it shouldn't be. :shocked: And with no way of getting him to Marin General Hospital....cuz the only car is [obviously] on jackstands and has most of its exhaust system removed. h: