Flame throwers

[JGood]

Anyone ever make a flame thrower out of a super soaker, or design your own super soaker?

I was checking out some badass homemade super soakers such as this...

http://www.sscentral.org/tech/homemades/aph.php

And of course if you search youtube for flame throwers you will see the many store-bought super soakers used for flame throwers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Qn_LkOhGg

So I'm thinking, build one of these durable and powerful PVC guns, attaching a flame at the end, filling with flammable liquid of my choice, and lighting shit up.

Anyone here have any experience with such activities?

[jflip2002]

looks like a way to kill yourself.

[atomic]

I do not think I would try to build such a device out of plastic ! It just seems to be a bad choice of materials. And I'm sure the ATF would really love you too.... But if you want to toy with your life go right ahead and build you a flame thrower out of pvc.....

[JGood]

People have been doing it with soaper soakers with no issues. Would you trust the thin super soaker "plastic" or PVC?

I'm not saying its smart or that I would recommend it at your kids 8th birthday party.

[atomic]

I would trust the pvc of super soaker anyday but still wouldn't do it for my own safety.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I always fear flames traveling. I worry about the flame from the lighter going into the can of spraypaint, wd-40, brake cleaner, oven cleaner, any compressed pressureized flamable liquid. Gasoline in a plastic squirtgun isn't my slice of cake. I broke one of those pumping, what if the difference in fluid viscosity caused a catastrophic failure that sprays a highly combustable mist of fuel vapors around your ignition source.


See ya later...

[JGood]

I didn't ask if everyone would feel safe doing this.

I want to know if anyone here has experience doing this (not likely, but figured it was worth a shot).

[JGood]

Actually, never mind. I'm looking at the design and it looks like there is an awful lot of air in the same tube as the fuel (read: bomb). A few seconds of logical thinking leads me to not want to do this anymore.

[jflip2002]

2 seconds of thinking even like an idiot should have made you not want to do this anymore lol.

[JasonC]

Never made one of those. But i do have a potato gun made from pvc.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I didn't ask if everyone would feel safe doing this.

I want to know if anyone here has experience doing this (not likely, but figured it was worth a shot).

Wouldn't DO it, thus, No experience.

[Jscotty]

I got one even better for you-

I was using diesel fuel to kill the weeds and grass that was growing in between the cracks of a parking lot on a VERY hot day using a big plastic pump container with a sprayer hose. After the fact it dawned on me that I was taking a serious risk. I don't know how much pressure and heat it takes to make diesel fuel ignite but apparently I would have been safer with a match and a bucket of gasoline.

[JGood]

Never made one of those. But i do have a potato gun made from pvc.

That's one thing I never did in my life. Everyone made potato guns, but not me. Maybe that's where my desire for a flame thrower comes from.

[Farbin Kaiber]

bar-b-q ignighter, coil wire, spark plug, helicoil, three to six ft. of black PVC, aqua-net hairspray.

[atomic]

bar-b-q ignighter, coil wire, spark plug, helicoil, three to six ft. of black PVC, aqua-net hairspray.

KABOOM !!!!