December 3, 2008 | The Geeks shall inherit the Earth | Log in

A Heat Fix

So, I was visiting my dad’s house a week or two ago, and I go into his room to maybe play him a bit on his 360. He’d been recently moving things around, so I took a look at his set up, and was taken a bit by surprise by how he’d decided to fix a minor heat circulation problem.

Dad's bullets holding up his 360

Just hope dad’s heat problem isn’t too bad. Bullets and heat together is fantastic, just not so much something you want inside your house, or bedroom for that matter….

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3 Responses to “A Heat Fix”

  1. cronotose said:

    lol what calibur? you’d prolly be safe if it’s just 9mm

  2. Gorf said:

    Those are just .22LR’s. Even if they cook-off, they’re not gunna kill ya. As with most cartridges, they require the pressure build-up of being fired in a barrel of a gun to acheive the velocity (and thus the kinetic energy) to do any harm. If they cooked-off, they’d just pop the bullet out of the brass case. For an example of this, go watch the Mythbusters episode where they put a .22LR (Long Rifle, by the way) into a fuse box under the steering column of a truck to see if a) it conducts the current and b) cooks-off due to the electricity/resistance heating the round up.

    As my profile says, I’m a bit of a gun-nut, so feel free to ask if you have any questions there-of.

  3. Epika said:

    Thanks for the info xD I know how to use a gun, but I don’t have a lot of knowledge about/experiance with them yet. Still learning from Dad and Grandpa. I had another friend who was a gun nut, but he only ever talks about H&K military guns.

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