Too late, already did it. Works very well. In fact, if I change the settin--- OHSWEETHOLYGODITBURNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITBURNS!!!!!!!!!!!! GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty cool, but lets be honest: I'm glad he's not my neighbor.

Back in my "destructive geek teen" years I used to use a model airplane glow plug and D-cell battery for an ignitor. More compact, and you don't need to have a flame going all the time...much safer.

The PVC seems dodgy too - some 4" steel pipe with a pair of unions would be a lot sturdier and allow for a more varied selection of juice.

Not a bad effort for a cheapie knock-together though.

Naturally, I can't recomment anyone actually build one of these, as ATF might be inclined to consider it a "destructive device" and offer you an all expense paid vacation at Club Fed...

I love the smell of gimo in the morning

gitmo

Hah! I was only eight when my cousin and I saw "Live and Let Die". In it Roger moore kills a snake with a can of antiperspirant that he ignites with his cigar. After the movie we went to the medicine cabinet and almost set the house on fire with our instant flame thrower (lit with matches not a cigar).

There's a reason they don't sell spray deodorants with alcohol anymore.

You used deodorant? Sniff. We sophisticates stole our sister's aerosal hairspray. I believe that still works properly.

But if you insist on something fancy, here's a hand-pumped sprayer that will give you that 'professional look' when you're poodle-hunting

I prefer killing mosquitos by igniting Off mosquito spray.

Admire your site and your writing. But isn't it "worst" not "worse?"

yup. Loose shit.

Never let my son see this! HE has been doing these things his whole life. A few years ago we were out back enjoying a nice summer evening. We suddenly heard a loud explosion! I immediately asked where my son was! He and his friend had filled a 2 liter soda bottle with dry ice. The explosion was like that of a freaking grenade. Luckily the police were nice about it.

There's a book that I've been meaning to get -- Backyard Ballistics.

Basically, it's a detailed manual on how to make catapults and mortar set-ups out of PVC pipe.

I thought that was pretty hard core, until I saw the alcohol-based Home Depot flamethrower.

Get that kid a job at the Pentagon, pronto.

What would be cool is one safe enough to be practical, big enough to be useful, and small enough to clip onto a rifle like in Aliens.

This is wonderful. And exactly why I love men.

Ahhh, those warm summer nights, sitting in the back yard, knocking down a few cold beers, and roasting roaches with a can of hair spray and a Zippo.

good times

Setting fire to ping-pong balls is, unexpectedly enough, heaps of fun.

Megan yes! Hours of entertainment.

And as I've mentioned before, gunpowder can be exciting. But keep in mind kids, it burns fast.

My daughters usually bring up that tale whenever they do something dumb (they're teens) by saying "yeah, well you were fooling around with gunpowder and you were NINE".

Another fun thing to do with a campfire is take a milk jug and put it on the end of a stick, then hold it in/near the fire until it begins to melt. When the melting starts, hold the stick above the flames and watch the light show begin.

Makes cool noises, too.

Just avoid breathing the fumes.

"Megan yes! Hours of entertainment."

I used to be a HUGE pyro. :)

Fire is the best part of the camping trip. Most camping trips I take end up with a bunch of us throwing stuff into the fire to see how well it burns.

Bacon grease = mega flame. Nearly a mushroom cloud. Outstanding.

Was sitting by a campfire on a deer hunt years ago, when a friend of mine walked up to the fire, pretended to trip, and tossed a handful of empty brass cartridges into the flames.

We all looked pretty silly diving for cover.

That's cruel.

Funny, though.

I'm not entirely sure why, but I just promised to fuck some internet guy up the ass with a strap-on provided he reads aloud from Nietzsche during the act.

...

It's a Chivas thing.

Oh yeah, that was sort of O/T. Sorry.

Eh...these boards are all about O/T conversations.

I know, I was just being an attention whore.

but what if he's hirsute?

Point, Dave.

you have mentioned in the past that you are not fond of the hairy body

Yes, which is why I'm having second thoughts even though he said that the book he'd pick would be Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Nietzsche is peachy.

Of course, now we've just got to know.

What sort of soundtrack would accompany such an evening?

I'm thinking Wagner. Keep the German theme going.

Nietzsche is peachy.

Sure, but Sartre is smart-tre. And Camus can do.

[groans]

Monty, you slut.

Aristotle: To be is to do.

Sartre: To do is to be.

Sinatra: Doo-be doo-be doo.

Totally O/T...

Looks like you're not the only one annoyed by Olympia Snowe. In today's political diary by the WSJ:

Don't expect too many apologies from Capitol Hill, but the investment returns on the Bush tax cuts are now rolling into the Treasury and, boy, were the doom and gloom "budget hawks" wrong. The prognosticators predicted that the Bush tax cuts would push the federal government deeper into the red, drive interest rates up and crash the economy. Luckily President Bush didn't pay much heed to Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, who did all she could to derail the first round of tax cuts in 2001 and also opposed later cuts in the cap-gains and dividend tax rates. The Treasury is now reporting record high $142.09 billion in tax receipts, the most ever for the month of July.

These guys slam Snowe whenever they get a chance. Nice to see my senator has the ability to make friends and influence people.

Slu - north east and republican are a virtual oxymoron. Its something in the water up there, or maybe all that Radon gas in the basements...

re: areosol flame throwers starter fluid is king although WD-40 works well too.

Can someone give me a parts list?
He doesnt give one and I am a n00b to this type of stuff