Forum Discussion
- Someone should put a cross/memorial on the side of the highway? LOL...
Greentreena wrote:
looks like they are testing it hard. Way better to figure this out now then after the release to the public. I don't view this story as a failure at all: just proper testing of their product before release.
Yeah just like they torture tested the 6.0 and 6.4 before releasing to the public. And we all know how that turned out...BenK wrote:
Bedlam wrote:
In China there were recent fires/explosions where they manufacture/finish aluminum parts. Aluminum dust flying around is scarier than driving around in an aluminum can.
Aluminum dust is an ingredient of 'thermite' and any 'burnable' dust
is explosive. Ditto solid rocket fuel.
In my first career designing industrial controls...explosion proof
enclosures were required in the contract specifications
Not what you'd normally think...most were grain elevators, but the one
that got me was 'cement' plant and the dust was expolsive
That is what is tough to get through to folks who don't understand
thermal dynamics.
I've seen lots of vehicles burn and none of the aluminum bodied burned
like these photos show. There is something else going on with that
vehicle fire. That one photo posted showing the aluminum splashing or
even exploding indicates the fire was much hotter than gasoline/diesel
could fueled fire
Me thinks some sort of catalyst changing the chem structure that then
ignited a aluminum/magnesium burn. Once that ignition gets going, then
it's a self fueling (both burnable fuel...the aluminum/magnesium...and
the "SELF" oxygen generation component)
I'm guessing the "disguise" blanket helped the burn accelerate.Bedlam wrote:
In China there were recent fires/explosions where they manufacture/finish aluminum parts. Aluminum dust flying around is scarier than driving around in an aluminum can.
Aluminum dust is an ingredient of 'thermite' and any 'burnable' dust
is explosive. Ditto solid rocket fuel.
In my first career designing industrial controls...explosion proof
enclosures were required in the contract specifications
Not what you'd normally think...most were grain elevators, but the one
that got me was 'cement' plant and the dust was expolsive
That is what is tough to get through to folks who don't understand
thermal dynamics.
I've seen lots of vehicles burn and none of the aluminum bodied burned
like these photos show. There is something else going on with that
vehicle fire. That one photo posted showing the aluminum splashing or
even exploding indicates the fire was much hotter than gasoline/diesel
could fueled fire
Me thinks some sort of catalyst changing the chem structure that then
ignited a aluminum/magnesium burn. Once that ignition gets going, then
it's a self fueling (both burnable fuel...the aluminum/magnesium...and
the "SELF" oxygen generation component)- In China there were recent fires/explosions where they manufacture/finish aluminum parts. Aluminum dust flying around is scarier than driving around in an aluminum can.
- Didn't expect the Ford guys to see the humor here.....
BurbMan wrote:
Here it is folks, the 2016 SuperDuty unveiled:
that's just the leftover mess after they cleaned up the frame, axles, etc.... those parts wouldn't burn into nothing.- Here it is folks, the 2016 SuperDuty unveiled:
- probably some of the testing equipment strapped to the truck that caught fire, most time it's a wiring mess on the prototypes. If it isn't that and it's something on the truck, well they just justified the reason for prototype testing.
- What I remember about early VW fires is fat people in the back seat compressing the seat frame down onto the battery posts. If you didn't get the fat person AND the burning seat cushion out fast enough the alum/mag mix came into play.
