Birds Custard....Is there nothing finer??

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:05:12 +0100, Paul Hubbard <jessnet RemoveThis @ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>
> "Burgerman" <burgerman RemoveThis @ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:1dVWg.11040$Or2.8040@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
>> I dont have a custard - opps meant oil burner to try this but...
>> Could someone sprinkle some custard powder into the intake with the
>> filter
>> removed on any deisel car while its idling please. If the revs rise a
>> little then it really works... Please someone try it! Report back
>> here.
>> Pre ignition shouldnt be an issue as I imagine custard is as least as
>> high
>> octane as propane and that causes no pre ignition issues. Wonder what
>> its
>> calorific value is? Should be on the tin!
>
> I remember one test involving a push lid tin with a pinhole in the top
> and
> bottom, a tablespoon of talc or custard powder, a good shake, then left
> over
> a flame.
>
> Air / powder mix gets right and boom.
>
> PDH
>
>

You must have thev worlds most heavily perfumed talc.

In message <snaXg.12789$Fx4.28@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net>, Paul Hubbard
<jessnet.RemoveThis@ntlworld.com> writes

>I remember one test involving a push lid tin with a pinhole in the top and
>bottom, a tablespoon of talc or custard powder, a good shake, then left over
>a flame.
>
>Air / powder mix gets right and boom.

I think you're confusing two demonstrations; powder explosion (where you
suspend a flammable powder in air and ignite it) and explosive mixture
(where you put methane in a tin with a pinhole at the top and bottom and
then light the methane coming out of the top. Eventually you end up with
an explosive mixture in the tin and the lid is blown off)

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Steve Walker