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A person once arced a Tesla coil to a can of spray paint. It went "BAD"
The valve tip attracted a big arc and burnt through and failed the can's valve. The paint came out fast and uncontrolled and the arc ignited the gas. I think the quote was "Thank God the new car was not in the garage too..." He was no longer allowed to play with Tesla coils...
The can was new and also became a self propelled rocket racing around inside the garage. The inside of the garage had to be repainted (rafters and roof trusses...) and the floor cleaned with power sprayers and such... I have not heard back since, so I assume his parents still have in locked up in the closet...
A more deliberate attempt in an open field to "see what happens" set the field on fire but in a minor way... The effect was similar...
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:22AM
Location: Austin TX
Posts: 57
How old was the kid, and are you sure it was an accident? I was bit of pyro when I was in high school and was constantly trying to use sparks to set things on fire. It always wound up being a lot harder than they showed on TV. Paper and plastic objects would just get holes in them, gas and rubbing alcohol would never go off on the first try, but I could get them to light. Anti-static bags and plastic air-duct tape seem to go up in flames pretty quick. I never had any paint cans, but I remember getting an empty can of WD-40, taking it out into a field and setting the the straw on fire like a fuse to see what would happen when it got to the cap.
BTW, those are some really cool sparks coming out of that tiny coil.
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