BicketyBam

He was trying to turn his car into a convertible.

302army187

its cool that you would make that sacrifice for your family.



but you really have a better chance of winning the lotto then your nitrous bottle exploding.

mjr46

your car could catch on fire too since it is powered by gas and blow up too........when you have a defective bottle and leave it in the hot sun what do you expect???...no reason to fear nitrous and the bottle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, follow directions and have the bottle tested and stuff like that won't happen....either way luckly no one was in the car

Stone629

I'm going to say it again...I swear to you guys, leaving a compressed bottle out in the sun is not and will not do this. My God, a bottle warmer is recommended for them. Those bottles are no where near their maximum capacity. A little heat isn't going to create the extra 2-3k pounds it would take to detonate one. There is more to this story than is being told. I have left bottles out in the hot sun at work for hours without issues.

EagleStroker

I was just thinking the exact same thing

Morbid Intentions

this I will agree with.... one of my friends however says the laws of physics cannot possibly allow this bottle to blow up and destroy things, that the bottle doesn't carry enough pressure to make the peices fly out at such a velocity.... I admitted I wouldn't know, I never blew up a nitrous bottle internally before (and neither has he, but he's still insisting it's impossible).... all I can say is bigfoot must have had a hell of a time stomping the crap out of that car if the nitrous bottle diddn't do it because I sure as hell don't see any fire damage

czwalga00gt

Your friend is an idiot.


Also nitrous is not flammable by itself, it's just an excelerant.

Morbid Intentions

I diddn't go that far, but I agree to some degree lol

Stone629

Please back your claim. Explain exactly how a compressed bottle explodes spontaneously, or at all. It doesn't. Explosions happen due to leaking combustible gases in a poorly ventilated area and where the gases come into contact with an ignition source. Thats why you can't just shoot a LP tank or any other type of compressed flammable or non-flammable bottle and expect an explosion. It simply doesn't work that way. They take off like a rocket or either blow flame from the hole that was created (assuming there was an ignition source, tracer round, flame, etc). The heat of the sun doesn't even come close to expanding the NO2 gas in a approved bottle enough to explode. Even if it did, it would simply blow the valve off, releasing all the pressure. In fact, I have personally witnessed an O2 tank fall off a delivery truck and break the valve completely off. It turned into a rocket and went across 4 lanes and thru a chainlink fence. Watch mythbusters if you don't believe me. Common sense guys, c'mon.

EagleStroker

Exactly, you can't prove the validity of the bottle, so you can't prove what did/ did not happen. It could of been over filled and burst under a bottle heater, you don't know, neither do we, so quit arguing about speculations geez