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Originally posted by decrepit
I connect mine to a car compressor, blow this pumping lark!
The best trick when you show somebody for the first time, is subtly to get them to stand behind it.!
My brother worked nightshift in a never to be named quarry in the local hills

they built a ramp (V2 rocket style) and used to use a full blown compressor. could fire the things out of site


Being at night, they would fill the things with Kero and have a lit oxy torch at the end of the ramp. As the rocket went past it would catch the kero vapour trail on fire and send this "shooting star" into the night sky.
Visually impressive, but would have been a disaster if they had landed in the bush before the fuel was spent.
Never happened luckily. Things you do when your bored.


