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@Gordon Nichols posted:.
...it looks like the afterburner on an F-16 when you light it up, can produce a 15" plume and the roar is tremendous. It eats a lotta gas, but BOY! Can that thing heat stuff up!...
..if you get too much acetylene it blows thick clouds of soot all over everything and with a bit too much oxygen in the mix it blows itself out with a bang like a 16-gauge shotgun...
Reading this, Gordon, I'm more comfortable than ever with my decision not to take up welding. And I'm certain the world is a safer place for it.
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