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Exploding Paint Can Incident

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Rockingham Speedway's Former Track Manager of 30+ Years Has Crazy NASCAR History Stories

What happens here

Ronnie tells a story about putting a can of blue spray paint on a heater in the maintenance shop. He forgot about it, and when they opened the door, the can exploded, splattering blue paint everywhere. Jamie shows the enduring blue paint remnants on the ceiling, a testament to the incident.

Goal: Recount a memorable accident in the maintenance shop.

Tools and materials

  • Small Heater N/A — Causing a paint can to explode (historical anecdote)
  • Blue Spray Paint N/A — The exploding paint (historical anecdote)

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for the cat see the hole yeah rocky we had a cat named rocky he had a little tail about that long wasn't the time clock still there when we did the tour i don't remember those drills being there yeah i just put i just put all those up the uh the punch card thing is actually in the back of the safety truck right now really yeah yeah we had a tv so we could see if a caution went out everybody i had they was on point they was on the track ready to go and sometimes we'd be here eating lunch a few of us when we had to take a break you know and we'd watch it on tv if they had to caution we'd take off you know everybody knew what to do yeah it was over there yeah i was beating up right here yeah well my boss man with frank wilson damn being here i've been fighting and frank won the spray paint something it was cold he said a count of paint that up under here the heater was on but it was over there it was all outside well he forgot about

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