Originally Posted by CommuterRun
I heard a loud BANG!! from the one of the back bedrooms one day.
Upon investigation I was informed by my son that a MTB tube not encased in a tire and rim will hold 20 psi and gets pretty big, before it comes apart.
Something similar....but not quite.
When we were young, me and my cousin did something similar except the inner tube was from a small farm tractor. We rolled the slighty under inflated inflated tube to the corner gas station to pump it up a bit more. Once there, we decided to give it a few more pounds then we normally did.
Well...one thing (or pound) lead to another, then another and so on....climaxing in a huge kaboom!! Next thing you know, 2 boys got blown clear off their feel for about 5-6 feet and the customers at the gas station really got the crap scared out of them.
To this day I still remember the feeling of the second or 2 of weightlessness when our bodies briefly defied gravity and our very sore ears from the pressure blast when that tube blew.
TD