I doubt that blowing the lid off of your meg is covered under warranty. However would you please video tape this attempt so we can all learn (snicker, snicker) from it. The meg that was used as a bomb in the movie "The Cave" was a prop, not a real meg (perish the thought), so you would be the first to blow up a MEG, the darwin award will be awarded posthumously.

Lets do the math kiddies:

(3.14*Radius of the meg head squared)* whatever pressure you decide to pump your meg up to = way too much potential energy pushing up on those tiny stainless steel clips hooked over a tiny protrusion of plastic for me to want to watch in person. but please...carry on, make sure there is tape and a good battery in the camera, bet you wont do this twice.

If you dont get the math, I will do a quick estimate for you. (and Im assuming you dont know how to do the math, or you wouldnt have come up with this rather silly idea in the first place) I dont have my meg head handy, so estimating the head diameter at 8".

For every 1 PSI (pounds per square inch, get it?) over ambient you inject, you apply about 50 lbs of upward force pushing the headplate out of the plenum. If you use pure O2 to pressureize the plenum and you want to see 1.6 PO2, you need to fill to about 10 PSI, this would put 500 lbs of force on the meg head. Make sure its a large gauge so you can see if from across the room, and the extra weight will make it a better projectile.

they say that stupidity should be painfull, and there goes your proof!!

So, we have covered this little exercize with a large amount of humor and tounge firmly in cheek, we hope that we have not offended anyone beyond recovery and sincierly hope this message reaches the proper parties in plenty of time to avoid certain catastrophe.

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