Tricks or Treat

[K7SGJ]

Bit of a snow storm up here kept the kids away. Only a dozen or so came through so I am stuck with a big bowl of candy plus the 15+ pounds the kids brought home with them.

No Heath bars though. That sucks. Those things are the crack of the candy world.

Every time I see those, I always want to call them health bars. God knows they're anything but that.

[W3WN]

Bit of a snow storm up here kept the kids away. Only a dozen or so came through so I am stuck with a big bowl of candy plus the 15+ pounds the kids brought home with them.

No Heath bars though. That sucks. Those things are the crack of the candy world.

I miss Heath bars.

[suddenseer]

I miss Heath bars.

They're gone?

[W3WN]

They're gone?

They are for me. Along with $100,000, Snickers, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Almond Joy, Mounds... *sigh*

[kb2vxa]

"The Insect" devised a system where he attached some extra hose to a fire extinguisher..."

Reminds me of an adventure with a 30lb dry chemical extinguisher, better than water and it doesn't run out of fizz for a LONG time.

[n2ize]

"The Insect" devised a system where he attached some extra hose to a fire extinguisher..."

Reminds me of an adventure with a 30lb dry chemical extinguisher, better than water and it doesn't run out of fizz for a LONG time.

Dry chemical ?? You mean a "chalk". I worked for a local company that serviced extinguishers and we used to refer to the dry chemical kind as "chalks". Handheld extinguishers were in general referred to as "oils". I think that name was a throwback to the wetting agents (surfactants) employed in certain wet fluid based extinguishers. The large wheeled or automated stationary CO2 systems were awesome. we used to have to test them now and then. Those things would blow you across a room.

As far as Halloween goes the best extinguishers to steal were the CO2's, or "snows". They were loud and gave a wicked blast of ice cold snow. Second best were the pressurized water or pressurized foams or anti-freeze, also called loaded streams. The chalks basically sucked. They were a one shot deal. Once you fired them the pressure would keep running out. The ones that sucked the most were the older soda acid or foam kinds, that you had to turn upside down. Once activated that was it. You couldn't stop them. Once when I was in high school we were up in the attic and my friend Zaffo fired off a soda acid out the window and onto the hippie flunkies sitting smoking pot out in the bleachers. That damned thing was going for like an hour and the spray was like a fucking oil.

[kb2vxa]

I used to work for a company that makes fire extinguishers and never heard those odd names before now. Anyway, the little 1 & 2lb babies are one shot deals but the big ones go on and on, about a gazillion dustings or a single blast lasting a couple of minutes. CO2 and Halon don't produced the desired effect, water based solutions don't either and some contain nasty chemical surfactants although protein foam could be interesting. Super K (potassium chloride) is really nasty stuff and that's going WAY over the line when it comes to a prank, even as dry powder it corroded the heck out of the filling equipment in very short order so you can imagine what it would do to the lungs, eyes and mucous membranes. That's why my twisted brain came up with using an ordinary dry chem ABC extinguisher, (sodium bicarbonate) tricky treaters and assorted innocent bystanders become instant ghosts. About a second is all it takes and a 30 pounder shoots about 20 feet effectively... MUAHAHAHAAAaaa.

[n2ize]

I used to work for a company that makes fire extinguishers and never heard those odd names before now.

No surprise there. Our boss used to like to make his own names for everything. We would use those same names on the outside to confuse people...

Anyway, the little 1 & 2lb babies are one shot deals but the big ones go on and on, about a gazillion dustings or a single blast lasting a couple of minutes.

Yeah, most of the "chalk" ones we got hold of were of the smaller 2 - 5 lb kind. They basically sucked, once you fired it the pressure would keep leaking out the nozzle. Some has a booster hose others just had a fixed nozzle. Best place to get them was at the shop classes in school. This guy we called "Duke" used to wear a long coat to school just for that purpose. I remember we had two of those types in the electronics lab. One morning we come to class and the teacher unlocks the door and we step in and everything is covered in white powder. looked like a indoor blizzard happened. Turned out that over the weekend the football team was using the room to watch movies (since all the schools AV equipment was stored and serviced there). A fairly expensive microphone was stolen as well. So they clean up the mess. 2 weeks later we walk in and... you guessed it, the football team used the room again. It was indoor blizzard # 2. After that the football team was excluded from that room.

CO2 and Halon don't produced the desired effect, water based solutions don't either and some contain nasty chemical surfactants although protein foam could be interesting. Super K (potassium chloride) is really nasty stuff and that's going WAY over the line when it comes to a prank, even as dry powder it corroded the heck out of the filling equipment in very short order so you can imagine what it would do to the lungs, eyes and mucous membranes.

I was always wary about using a halon for pranking. I suspect the agent in them could be toxic. Besides we didn't have many of those in my school. Didn't come across many halons until I started working in the computer lab in college. Most of the extinguishers we had in high school were the smaller CO2 kind. The science labs were the best places to acquire those. Otherwise they mostly had the class A pressurized water or old soda acid kinds. The CO2''s and the water's were pretty good for Halloween pranking. No "instant ghost" effect but still fun.

That's why my twisted brain came up with using an ordinary dry chem ABC extinguisher, (sodium bicarbonate) tricky treaters and assorted innocent bystanders become instant ghosts. About a second is all it takes and a 30 pounder shoots about 20 feet effectively... MUAHAHAHAAAaaa.

I could imagine... instant blizzard...insta-ghosts...

Years ago when I was working for Duracell we had class D extinguishers in areas where metals like lithium, magnesium, powdered zinc, etc were frequently used. Those metal fires can be nasty and ordinary extinguishers won't put them out. Thing is they never showed us how to use them. They were painted yellow and they had no squeeze handle on them. I suspect they might have had an attached cartridge to supply the pressure. I guess in the event of a metal fire I would have either 1) figured out very quickly how to use them or, 2) gotten the hell out of there fast...

[kb2vxa]

Amid Snickers and along the Milky Way trekked 3 Musketeers to Almond Joy and her Mounds. It cost $100,000 though, she not a cheap ho bro! Almond Joy has nuts, aw, you finish it.

[n2ize]

And on this Mega-Moment
She raised her hands to the Milky way
She finds her dream in a story book
Of the Mounds she never had
In heaven a troubled countess
And the wife of a Snickers man
Such a darling and ever so friendly
Just like the 3 Musketeers band.