XJ parts on Mythbusters

Mug

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Just a weird thing I noticed on a recent episode, Crash and Burn, was that they used an XJ gas tank to test what would happen if you completely squashed a full tank of gas. They tapped a couple boxes of strike anywhere matches to the top so when the large weight fell on it, it would ignite the fuel. Pretty good TV in general :D.

You can't see the tank up close, but you can see what they do to it on 00:16 and 00:23 of this trailer of the episode.

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