Where does acetylene come from???

[julianthegypsy]

Acetylene generators were certainly still in use there in the noughties when I was last there. Saw a bloke crossed legged wearing a nightshirt type 'overall' and safety Flip Flops whilst welding up an Ali canoe. Impressive and scary in equal measure.

Ah yes, the ever present safety flip flops. If he was welding an Ali canoe he was doing well though!

 

[awemawson]

We used to put carbide in the ink wells at school - brilliant if you were ink monitor. I tiny lump in each well (usually two in each desk) then top up with best blue / black ink from a copper spouted jug, just in time for the classroom to be untenable when the master came in

(For the un-initiated, acetylene stinks !)

 

[fzr phil]

When we had the great acetylene shortage 10odd years ago, i remember telling my old(old) boss about it, he was flabbergasted, said was easiest thing in the world to make...
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