Don't they sparkle when you forget to turn the gas on

Favourite practical joke is to replace the tungsten with a suitably sharpened length of 16g stainless welding rod!

Oh how we larfed

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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
Favourite practical joke is to replace the tungsten with a suitably sharpened length of 16g stainless welding rod!

Oh how we larfed

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Best practical joke I ever pulled - filled a party balloon with oxy-acetylene, plugged the balloon with a sparkplug (electrode-end inside the balloon), pulled off one of mates' spark plug leads & hooked it onto my own, taped the side of my spark plug/balloon contraption to the side of his engine block, and closed the hood.

It worked spectacularly...although in retrospect, a smaller balloon would have been preferable. Blew the hood off his old Fargo pickup truck, 30' in the air. Lots of flame and noise, too. Caused some concern on the adjoining Air Force base, as I recall. Of course, I was running rather quickly at the time...