Exloding Hot Water Heater

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Originally Posted by suicideneil

You can achieve the same effect by chucking a can of baked beans onto a bonfire...

Chuck two cans down your throat, and blast one out into the bonfire.
some high pressure flaming blue angels..

I saw that episode of Myth Busters, it was pretty cool..

Like the guy says, test your relief valve once a yr! These tanks must be extruded with a bottom cap welded on since they seem to always turn into missles. Notice what kind of safety factor they have built into these? It was well over 2x the rated pressure when it went.

Ghost buster slo-mo of the blast was awesome.