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Ken S. Tucker explained on 6/2/2008 :
I confess to enjoying ancedotal stories.
As a monster nut brat I got some tin cans together
and built a pulse jet, complete with a flapping duct
input, and used a hair dryer for my air input source,
in my parents downstairs fireplace.
So I pour in some gas into the thing, lite it up,
turn on the hair dryer and holy poop, the duct starts
fluttering and flames are fluttering out the ass end!
It worked! It buzzed!

I probably used a pint of gasoline per minute of
operation, but that wasn't the point, it was actually
seeing the damn thing in operation.
Hands on is good stuff.
Ken

Proof there is a God, you survived yourself.

On Jun 1, 11:26 pm, Gezellig wrote:
Ken S. Tucker explained on 6/2/2008 :

I confess to enjoying ancedotal stories.
As a monster nut brat I got some tin cans together
and built a pulse jet, complete with a flapping duct
input, and used a hair dryer for my air input source,
in my parents downstairs fireplace.
So I pour in some gas into the thing, lite it up,
turn on the hair dryer and holy poop, the duct starts
fluttering and flames are fluttering out the ass end!
It worked! It buzzed!
I probably used a pint of gasoline per minute of
operation, but that wasn't the point, it was actually
seeing the damn thing in operation.
Hands on is good stuff.
Ken

Proof there is a God, you survived yourself.

I'm very safety conscious, I have 3 fingers and 1 eye
left over that I haven't used up yet. No point in taking
all that stuff to the grave where they will just rot.

My flame holder was steel wool (aka Brillo soap pad),
and my throttle was a rubber squigy loaded with gasoline
....actually that was one of my safer experiments.
Ken

"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in news:7bcb3e2e-b411-
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On Jun 1, 11:26 pm, Gezellig wrote:
Ken S. Tucker explained on 6/2/2008 :

I confess to enjoying ancedotal stories.
As a monster nut brat I got some tin cans together
and built a pulse jet, complete with a flapping duct
input, and used a hair dryer for my air input source,
in my parents downstairs fireplace.
So I pour in some gas into the thing, lite it up,
turn on the hair dryer and holy poop, the duct starts
fluttering and flames are fluttering out the ass end!
It worked! It buzzed!
I probably used a pint of gasoline per minute of
operation, but that wasn't the point, it was actually
seeing the damn thing in operation.
Hands on is good stuff.
Ken

Proof there is a God, you survived yourself.

I'm very safety conscious, I have 3 fingers and 1 eye
left over that I haven't used up yet. No point in taking
all that stuff to the grave where they will just rot.

My flame holder was steel wool (aka Brillo soap pad),
and my throttle was a rubber squigy loaded with gasoline
...actually that was one of my safer experiments.


If there's a God, that's not what he's saying about you.


Bertie