Wtf is joels thunderpipe anyway?

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Mihlrad
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Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:16 pm

I been wondering wtf this thing is for a long time now, he calls it the thunderpipe...

http://spudtech.com/detail.asp?id=55 the video is just a massive fireball that mushroom clouds the sky for a few seconds... is this all it does i dont understand it.
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Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:24 pm

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Mihlrad
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Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:41 pm

O.O?
They use his stuff in movies or what? And how does it work... I dont understand how he makes such a monsterous bang.
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Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:44 pm

I think Joel said it was a bit of kerosene in the barrel.
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Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:51 pm

It's just a standard pnumatic. If one puts kerosene in the barrel and lights the top, when it is shot the liquid all catches on fire at the same time.

I have done this with my copper piston cannon.
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Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:19 am

Ihe issue is that joel got soem sort of liscence to fire that kerosene, did you?
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Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:32 pm

Beebs, considering that joel didn't even do the hydrocarbon fireball [aka. lampare]...
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Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:07 pm

i thought he did, it looks like his garage from the pictures i've seen of it
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Sat Jul 01, 2006 4:57 pm

looks exactly like my garadge. many houses looh the same on the outside
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