Carbide

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Before I throw it away does anyone want some carbide? It was a 5kg tub, lots of dust but still quite a few lumps in it.
Collect it my house in the dales and it's yours.

 

[Duncan Price]

If caver post can get it to the Mendips then I'll have it. We set fire to acetylene for STEM experiments for school kids.

 

[Badlad]

We used to put a lump of carbide in a plastic pop bottle with a dab of water then screw the top on tight. Everyone sat around in a wide circle and the bottle lobbed in the middle. The 'game' was to kick the ever expanding bottle away every time it came near. Eventually it exploded, usually under somebody's chair. Beer was involved and the game usually took place late at night

 

[Roger W]

Back in the days when school desks had inkwells that were actually kept topped up with ink by the ink monitor, it was the practice of some to drop a piece of carbide into their inkwell as the class moved to another room for their next lesson...

 

[Duncan Price]

We used to put a lump of carbide in a plastic pop bottle with a dab of water then screw the top on tight. Everyone sat around in a wide circle and the bottle lobbed in the middle. The 'game' was to kick the ever expanding bottle away every time it came near. Eventually it exploded, usually under somebody's chair. Beer was involved and the game usually took place late at night

Wrapping your leftover expedition carbide in bread and feeding it to seagulls passed the journey back to Blighty on the Santander/Plymouth ferry.

 

[Duncan Price]

If caver post can transport said hazardous goods from Yorkshire to The Hunters' I'd be grateful.