Technical FLAME THROWER FAIL

A much simpler solution...a trip to Taco Bell, sit on your trunk...and WOW the crowd

 

Jack, you are undoubtedly a sick man....

 

Ahhh , FINALLY back to some real FIRE !
Thanks Jack

 

Is that where that saying, " You ain't got a hair on your *** " comes from? You know, kind of like " I dare you".

 

True story...but OT
Back when I was dating Bonnie, I was having dinner with Bonnie's (small-town, conservative, Methodist) family. During dinner, Bonnie's little sister "cut a real stinker"...we all laughed it off and I said "you could heat the whole house with that one".
I then explained that a fart contains about 30% hydrogen sulfide and methane and was quite flammable. They thought I was nuts.

A few weeks later I was at Bonnie's parent's house again and my gastro situation was just right to give them a scientific demonstration similar to the one above. I've never seen 2 people laugh so hard...they talked about it for years...it was a wonderful way to endear myself to my soon-to-be inlaws.

 

When lightning farts it’s important to be wearing tight fitting pants, as a teen I showed some friends that trick, one later burned all the hair off his crotch, was not too happy!

 

No, you can't prepare it first. That's what yall are missing. Gas has to be atomized with the correct amount of air, or you're argument is garbage, which it is. Just because you Google something, doesn't make it so. Google how much gas equals a stick of dynamite and you get 5 different answers in the first five listings, varying from 4-83 (83 being the first Google result, and why I would imagine it's listed here). But if you throw a gallon of gas on a fire, it will NOT go off with the force of 83 sticks of dynamite. Fact. (It will more do what the 500 stick barrel does in the video below. Large boom, but lots of uncombusted fuel will burn too. Dynamite goes off once, one force. This is why they don't use gas to mine granite, take off cliff faces, control avalanches, etc etc...)

Go throw a bag of flour on a fire and see what happens. Nothing. Sift a large amount of flour over an ignition source. What happens? Large scale explosion. Air mixed in.

This video has some cool explosions and explains with cool visual aids rich, lean, just right gas mixtures. MIXTURES.

https://m.facebook.com/therealuncle...-of-gasoline-1-stick-of-tnt/2950070631881122/

 

Sorta cleared the air between you and the inlaws, right?

 

My parents car port / wash shed burned to the ground years ago due to my father and brother working on a gas powered welder. The vapors traveled over fifteen feet to the pilot light on the drier, The were lucky the house didn't burn down.

 

"When lightning farts" ?? I know this is OT but I had no idea that this was an actual activity, but I am from a small, very conservative, small city.

 

Just to get semi back on track, this being a internal, external or, possibly both types of combustion, sort of thread. A person might wonder if the folks at MDS or Pertronix think about this sort of stuff?

 

Go back and see my post #24 on page 1. I mentioned stoichiometric ratio right back then. This is how I would want to prepare your gallon of gas. Guaranteed that we would get a very, very big bang...........
The flour thing is indeed a similar concept. It is not the air as such, but the 21% oxygen content that facilitates combustion. And yes, I googled that, but I am pretty sure it is not ********.......

 

I agree, and I think the common consensus is , all of them are kinda stupid.

Incidentally, back in the late 70s, there were a few customs around with "naturally aspired" flamethrowers here on the East Coast. At some of these bigger East Coast Shows, they would park 2 or 3 of these customs next to each other and have "flame-offs". There's a real art to flamethrowing, keeping the flame going, keeping the car running, choke and coil control etc...these were really a skill compe***ion... and were judged by crowd applause/response.

By the 1980s these compe***ions became a lot more compe***ive and some folks realized the bigger the flame, the better the crowd response was (winning). That is when the use of a secondary fuel source became a common practice...and eventually to the point of ridiculousness/dangerous.

So in essence, the use of secondary fuel source flamethrowers fall WAY beyond the HAMB cut-off year.

 

I’ve been following this thread daily. I have no knowledge of flame throwers, dynamite or the actual explosive-ness of gas. But I do have a long history of p***ing gas and if anyone needs advice on how to blame another, what to do ina crowd etc when you feel one coming on, pm me for advice.
Reminds me of a story my dad told me as a kid.
Avon lady was in an elevator and let a m***ive fart out

She reached into her bag for air freshener spray and tried to douse out the smell.
At the next stop doors open and a drunk guy stumbles in and say “damn that smells awful “

Lady says “what does it smell like to you sir”?

Drunk answers back “smells like someone **** a Christmas Tree””

Tis the season