Great footage for 2dorks.com anyway! Forget what Doc said let the child in you run wild.

I am LMAO! I think I saw this once on one of those home video shows. Jeepcop make sure you were a cup...these things always end with someone taking a hit to b@lls!

I think the funniest this about this post is the way you phrased it "dg VS. sv"...as if one might win and the other loose. Is there an over/under? I want my action on the shop vac!

sorry for the typo...that's wear a cup

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Originally posted by BinDerSmokDat:
A shop-vac won't work with the top removed. It is basically a fan that pumps air out of the cannister, creating the vaccuum and the suction is pulled through the hose in the side of the cannister.

I am fairly confident that if you taper down the hose to say 50 gauge size and only draw on the foot without sucking in ashes and embers, you'll be ok. In fact I am so confident I'm going to try it when I get home. I don't have digital vid, but I have a camera and will take plenty of pics.

BinDer, if you're actually going to do this, I want to place a bet on 15 seconds from ignition time to total meltdown.

Experiment completed, I'm still alive. Uploading pics now, standby.

Ok, I was absolutely giddy when JeepCop proposed this and rushed home to try it out. After a "last supper" of fish fillets and potato skins I rushed to the basement with my various implements of destruction.

In the photos you will note a 2 liter Coke bottle, a Consuegra #28 8.5x52 President, one of my many always handy Roburn micro torch, some duct tape, a tape measure and ashtray.

I trimmed the Coke bottle with a hacksaw (couldn't find one of about 50 Stanley utility knives that are all over but never around when you need one) to make the "Craftsman 3hp shop-vac hose to cigar interface adapter."

I then taped/sealed it in place with the always useful duct tape, making sure to get a good seal. I then clipped and fit the Connie to the adapter, using metallic duct tape for heat resistance. This setup left a good 7 inches of theoretical burn.

I set up the tape measure, ashtray and clock (the stopwatch died, thankfully before this began) and taped the hose down to the plywood table. I did this all in the basement out of convenience, but it ended up stinking the whole house up anyway, more on that later.

I toasted the foot thoroughly and flipped the vac on. The cigar was a tight restriction for the vac and it was whining away. It immediately caused an uneven burn to form and continue along the length of the cigar (see pics) at one point causing the most unusual ash formation I have ever seen. The ash split in two and curled back, like a burst hotdog. It held like that for several inches before fragmenting.

The stench was awful, like burning yard leaves. It stank the basement and thanks to a 3hp motor circulating the smell, soon stank up the whole house. The entire burn time was about 5 minutes.

I say "about" because at that point the cigar was under such suction and had degraded in physical strength that it sucked into the hose with about 4" left. I dropped the camera, flipped of the vac fearing explosion, fire, death and ruin. I tore off all the tape and the cigar came out, sans wrapper. Once it had been sucked through the adapter, the rush of air around the cigar had sucked the ember off and pretty much extinguished the cigar. The cigar was pretty smushy and a bit moist. I tried a puff in the interest of science and it was the worst taste I have ever experienced from a cigar.

The pics are still loading to my yahoo page, will post shortly.

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BTW, that was right about 4 inches burned in 5 minutes.

JeepCop, you lost the bet. You owe me!

J/K I feel I owed you this experiment in return for all of your generosity and contributions to the forum.

BinDer - you are the man.
I can't wait to see the pictures.

Pics!

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Originally posted by puffingaway:
BinDer - you are the man.
I can't wait to see the pictures.

quit kissin his a$$

ha, just kiddin

That is the weirdest ash i have and probably will ever see. Imagine if you could pull that at a longest ash compitition

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Originally posted by dre:
That is the weirdest ash i have and probably will ever see. Imagine if you could pull that at a longest ash compitition

Would it count double if you counted both halves?

I just realized there is a pen and paper in one of the pics. I had it to jot down any notes, but sh!t happened so fast, I just kept snapping pics. That was the fastest 5 minutes of my life.

I was alternating attention between the cigar and the vac to make sure I wasn't going to burn the house down. Imagine explaining that one to the insurance company?

Nice pics BinDer. Glad you tried it and not me, my wife would ban me from ever smoking in the house again.

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Originally posted by Docbarry:
Nice pics BinDer. Glad you tried it and not me, my wife would ban me from ever smoking in the house again.

My GF was on the way out the door to the dentist, so I have a little time to lessen the stench.

She has to understand however that being with a cigargod that I must pursue all things cigar related, for better or worse. Cigar experimentation must go on.

LOL!!! That is great!!! I can't believe you guys are trying insane, dumb, retarted, but ohhh so much fun stuff like this!!! 3 cheers for Jeep and Binder!!! This thread has been very entertaining

LMAO, Binder you're like the Dr. Frankenstein of cigars.