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Regular poster 399 posts Dave.S58 Regular poster 399 posts
Dave.S58

 

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Ace Regular poster 149 posts
Ace

Don't forget to open the vent valve

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Graeme Nitz OKGraeme Prolific poster 1,695 posts
Graeme Nitz OKGraeme

As you can see Mythbusters tried...

...their damnedest to get this to happen and failed. That had to cheat to get it to happen. Good episode though!

To see it done without cheating search on YouTube for the German version. Done without cheating!

Graeme Nitz

An Aussie living in Owasso OK

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Dawson Regular poster 224 posts
Dawson

Imploded

You suck the air and contents out of any think and it will implode on you .that's why you have relief valves .Ace's picture explains it better.

Smokey Dawson      Australia
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laming Super User 3,959 posts
laming

It happens. It happened on a

It happens. It happened on a customer's track that my RR company switches. The customer failed to open the vent, and eventually the suction caused the car to implode. The car sat at the end of the track for over a year and then had to be cut up on-site.

The Mythbusters were wrong on this one.

Andre
Kansas City & Gulf: Ozark Subdivision, Autumn of 1964
 
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