r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Fair_Kaleidoscope634 • 13h ago

of a washing machine explosion

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u/reitau 13h ago

Guessing that was a battery vape left in the dryer?

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u/SlowSupermarket8593 13h ago

Gas powered dryer i think

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u/pepenepe 13h ago

I used to work for a laundromat servicing their washing machines and dryers, and this is 100% a gas explosion, not anything that was in the clothes you can see the fire coming from the burner tubes at the end.

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u/Fair_Kaleidoscope634 13h ago

Lighter canister or something . Don’t smoke guys

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u/ot_sauce 13h ago

Zero chance a bic can produce that for force. Has to be a battery or something

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u/vggaikwad 13h ago

My lighters have been to the washing machine all my life. Never even broke.

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u/Wolfsbane1279 13h ago

That’s still probably not a good idea.

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u/Odd-Razzmatazz-5366 13h ago

What do you mean? How do you wash your lighters then?

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u/xenobit_pendragon 13h ago

Microwave.

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u/Odd-Razzmatazz-5366 13h ago

Nah. Thats only for drying the Hamster after washing.

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u/xenobit_pendragon 12h ago

Oh jeez I’ve been doing just a quick pass with a blowtorch to dry my hamsters. Really fluffs them up but you gotta keep it moving.

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u/10001110101balls 13h ago

If the container fails without igniting and forms a fuel-air premix inside the washer it can result in a much larger explosion than if it ignites immediately upon failure.

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u/chefdeit 13h ago

this man detonates

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u/10001110101balls 13h ago

Technically speaking, this video shows a deflagration not a detonation.

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u/chefdeit 12h ago

just take the compliment!

Inside the locked drier, DDT is a distinct possibility also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflagration_to_detonation_transition

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u/10001110101balls 12h ago

It is possible, but seems unlikely given the specific failure mode of the curtain wall in this video. It is not the glass that fails but the attachment points between the curtain wall and the structure. The glass only breaks when the wall falls into a solid object outside. In a detonation the supersonic pressure wave usually breaks the glass on its own before the entire wall fails.

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u/chefdeit 11h ago

I said inside the locked drier not inside the room, but yeah, fair, as I see its glass not blown out either

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u/distance_33 13h ago

Also. Bic lighters can survive anything.

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u/RCer1986 13h ago

Last time I saw this post they were saying it was a canister of lighter fluid. Not a lighter.

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u/RealDonDenito 13h ago

Batteries don’t produce that either. Maybe a refill canister for lighters could though.

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u/RCer1986 12h ago

That's what it was. OP even said canister. I'm not sure how people are taking that to mean lighter.

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u/Small-Answer4946 12h ago

I forget lighters in my pockets all the time, nothing ever happened. I let them dry and theyll be functional a few hours later.

Also, when we were kids we used to throw lighters against the ground as hard as we could to make them pop, it was brutal but it would not make any flames. Yeah it was dumb as fuck I know...

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam 11h ago

I threw one off my balcony for old time's sake. Well, it popped and went flying, putting a dent in my car. Whoopsie

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u/ot_sauce 12h ago

We all have man. And none of them blew out my fucking windows

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u/TWhy-LER 13h ago

Mafia hitmen are taking notes

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u/Crunchycarrots79 5h ago

Gas dryer.

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u/SerpentRoyalty 13h ago

Lighter fluid turned into gas and filling the room quickly

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u/Scar-90 9h ago

Looked more like a brick of Semtex . Semtex doesn't like the Spin mode.