Guy thread: WD-40 Flamethrowers

[jfields 0]

Okay, who is with me on this one? You know, when you were like 11 or 12 years old, you wander out into dad's garage when your parents aren't home. You and your older brother and each get a can of WD-40 and insert the little red tube into the nozzle. Then you go find some extra long fireplace matches, and light them. Then you hold the match at arm's length and spray the WD-40 in bursts toward the match, targeting things like swarms of flying bugs, your brother, piles of dry leaves, your brother, newspapers, your brother, picnic tables, your brother, etc.
All this is... umm... hypothetical, of course.
Justin

[Remster 30]

lol.. at least I was paid to put my life and genetic lineage at risk! lol
Remster
Muff 914

[Scratch 0]

Nope! Never done that
I was too busy playing 'Doctor' to have time for GI Joe
Sometimes you're the windshield.
Sometimes you're the bug ~~~~Dire Straits

[weid14 0]

the old hairspray works for flamethrowers, too.
some people say farts can have the same effect also.

[jfields 0]

There was never any hair spray at my house. Ether engine start spray also works really well though. We just had to do all of the flamethrower fights outside of the garage. That is where dad kept the tanks of oxygen and acetlyene he used for welding. No, he isn't a professional welder. I just come from a long line of amateur pyromaniacs. We could have a campfire with nothing but cinderblocks and lighter fluid. Who needs that wood crap when you can use petrochemicals and ruin the ozone layer? Justin

[weid14 0]

responding to: "Ether engine start spray also works really well though."
yeah, that stuff is DA BOMB! (literally). I hear ya on the pyro thing. we used to build model boats, cars and planes, then put glue on them, and have a battle, of course when they got "hit" you lit up the glue, which would also lite up the plastic. the imaginary artillery fire of course was very early (typically before the model even dried).

[jfields 0]

Often we skipped the models. But Testor's works really well for a fuse if you just lay a thick, long line of it towards the item that is going to be destroyed. Justin

[sunshine 2]

And soon there will be a little Justin in this world...."This life I lead, you'll never understand.
If you fly with me, we'll never have to land."

[jfields 0]

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And soon there will be a little Justin in this world....

Yup. Look out. Another generation of hellions is on the way. Only this time, it will be my house that gets destroyed by the antics. Shit!
Justin

[kingbunky 3]

i remember doing that, spend a couple of hours putting a model together, then stuffing some firecrackers in it and igniting them, so cool! blowing shit up, now we're talking fun!
nothing succeeds like a budgie with no teeth

[wildblue 7]

What's really fun is lighting a book of matches, place them on ground in front of WD-40 can, standy waaaay back, shoot can with BB gun.
Now that's good stuff.
Other good stuff:
K1 in a Snapple (or other good, sturdy, glass bottle) with the cap on. Only about 1/2 - 2/3 full though. Place in super-hot area of bonfire. Take cover. Watching it boil is fun.
BTW - you know bowling balls burn really well? Sure, there's amateurs out there that soak a tennis ball in gas and light it, but real men launch flaming bowling balls out of fire pits.
There's a vacant sign that's hanging high
But at least you're not alone

[nacmacfeegle 0]

When I used to climb a lot, we would celebrate worthy events by putting one of those little camping gas containers in the campfire,
with predictably impressive results......
Cya
D

[wildblue 7]

cut the primer part out of a shotgun shell, throw that in a fire. This works best when no one else sees you do it. If you want, you can even get up and "go to the bathroom" to completely avoid suspicion - it takes a few minutes for it to finally go "BANG"
... maybe I should start putting "don't try this at home" "highly trained professional on a closed course" etc etc on these posts before someone blows themselves up and tries to sue.
There's a vacant sign that's hanging high
But at least you're not alone

[sangiro 26]

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I was too busy playing 'Doctor'...

With your brother? Safe swoops
Sangiro

[jceman 1]

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spend a couple of hours putting a model together, then stuffing some firecrackers in it and igniting them, so cool! blowing shit up, now we're talking fun!

Even more fun to make up a batch of blackpowder, take the deck off carefully, make compartments in the hull with extra plastic, pour in the powder (filling at least one compartment with just sulphur), then regluing the deck. Long burning fuse(s) in the stack(s), launch down the river and observe the carnage.
Of course if you didn't want to go through all that "trouble", just launch the ships and use slingshots to launch M80s and Cherry Bombs at 'em!

[SkyMissy 0]

I think I've still got presription bottle grenade shrapnel in the back of my knee from our "realistic" war games of childhood. We were dumb enough to cap each other w/bb guns, and lob scrip bottles with black cats in them at each other...for about two weeks. Luckily, nobody lost an eye. What a bunch of dumbasses. Anyway, now I get to toss students, oh the irony.....
I'm not the man they think I am at home, no;
I'm a rocket man.
Sky World

[freefallin14 0]

"You know, when you were like 11 or 12 years old"
Me and my roomates are college seniors and we just did that last week.
Bret

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

College, 11 year olds, all the same. I'm in uni as well, so I know !!
When you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or loose, its how drunk you get.

[Schroeder 0]

oh ya... good times with the wd-40..... we used to use it when we were kids building snow-forts out of packed snowbanks. It was exactly like a flamethrower... good times. ate through ice like nothing.
"If I ventured in the slipstream; Between the via-ducts of your dreams.......could you find me?"

[JDBoston 0]

I used to prefer bug spray myself. I figure my kids'll do it too, I'll just make sure to tell them to always let up on the spray before the flame gets all the way back to the nozzle.
Then there was the time we put a shotgun shell on a railroad tie and lay down about 20 feet away trying to shoot the firing pin with a BB gun. Luckily our ambition outstripped our accuracy.
Joe

[jfields 0]

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"You know, when you were like 11 or 12 years old"
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Me and my roomates are college seniors and we just did that last week.

You see, if I were to do it now, I wouldn't use the WD-40 can. That is so entry-level. I'd inevitably try something like filling an air compressor driven power painter with WD-40 and lighting it up. Bigger boys, bigger toys.
Justin

[QuickDraw 0]

One word...Sodium....Yummy
..Billions of people living out their lives..Oblivious..

[jfields 0]

I like sodium also. I liberated some of that in high school chem class and somehow it managed to get into the pond. I have no idea how it happened. Justin

[scottbre 0]

Too bad you couldn't get your hands on some cesium. Course you might not have those hands now, if you had.
KA-BOOM!
"Fixing the world through self-destruction."

[n2skdvn 0]

cup of potassuim pergramanete sp? drop of glyceirne
start a bonfire in no time
if ya can't dodge it RAM IT !!!!!!
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