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How to start a fire......

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Cause the whole, world, loves it when you don't get down
And the whole, world, loves it when you make that sound



WILDBLUE I LOVE THAT SONG!!! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who listens to that!:P (I'll leave it a mystery for those who aren't enlightened):P;)
Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

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Avgas and a container of LOX will start a bonfire really quickly.

Just ask Ralphie at Palatka.

I believe his facial hair grew back in time...

Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money.

Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them?

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must . . . resist . . . not . . . funny



Oh come on! That hasn't stopped anyone else today.

Wendy W.
There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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Hmmm... Choices, choices...

Avgas is good for the initial flare, but Avtur or, better yet, diesel is beter for staying power. Mix in a little vaseline for... (whoops, forgot this thread is about fires, not ducks:ph34r:.

Personally I'd recommend blast incendiary as the way to go, but if I was Freeflyz, I'd just open my mouth and let the hot air do the job...>:(.

Mike.


Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable.

Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

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Apologies, The last paragraph was out of order...

Tell me your target & I "MIGHT" tell you how to make a BI, Simple ALF, Clever ALF...

Mike.

PS: Oh yeah... "Wrath of God"... Been there, done that... Also the whole Chinese "Live in interesting Times" thing as well - still here B|.


Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable.

Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

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There's this crazy American dude who lights fires with liquid oxygen.
Boy does that go up well.



I read about this dude at a college (MIT maybe), who wanted to see how fast he could get a BBQ from not lit to ready to cook. Tried it with liquid ox and it completely destroyed the cheap BBQ grill. All they had left was a pile of smoldering ashes. I'll see if I can find the story...pretty funny stuff.

Oz

Here's the link to the dude's web page:
http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/~ghg/

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Jet A.

Why, you say? Geez... allow me to demonstrate my chemical ignorance...

Jet A is basically Kerosene, right? Kerosene (an "oil") burns slow and the volatile compounds do not evaporate in a flash (pun intended).

100LL is highly volatile and all the 'good stuff' boils off in ambient temperateure.

Soak the wood and 100 LL will not KA-BOOM just minutes later. Most ofthe explosive power has already evaporated. Jet A will burn 'forever' by contrast and fuel the fire into a raging frenzy.

Worse yet is C-12 Racing Fuel designed for 12:1 compression racing engines. We built a bonfire of dead picnic tables one Canada day at the track and blew nearly 5 gallons of the stuff. ...wouldn;t even keep the tables alight. Another 2 gallons of pump fuel, however, made quite a nice kaboom.

Now, take some diesel fuel (crude Jet A) and some nitrogen fertilizer ... and soon you have Oklahoma :( but I'm sure we don't want to go there. Bastards!



Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

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