A few weeks ago I wrote about Elon Musk’s Not-A-Flamethrower having gone on sale. Currently, folks are selling them for around $2000 and up on the internet. You can buy a poster of Elon Musk holding one of them for $48. I thought I’d lose interest in such a thing after using it three times. Maybe that’s just me. Probably not.
I started looking around, out of pure curiosity, to see what else is out there in the not-a-flamethrower universe. Flamethrowers are illegal but you wouldn't know that from what folks are selling out there. There are a ton of homemade flamethrowers offered. Who are these people that make and sell such things and why? I don't know.
I did come across a youtube video made by a guy who shows all of us how to make a flamethrower using a fire extinguisher. That got my attention simply due to the irony. So I decided to put that youtube video up as my diary today. I found it kinda cool. The guy really makes it simple and shows both his successes and duds. He’s safe a well as all flamethrower makers should be.
Full disclosure. I was just like all of you as a kid. I did take a Bic lighter and a can of hairspray and make my own homemade flamethrower. We all did...fess up.
BTW, the “yellow powder” that is in a store-bought fire extinguisher is just baking soda which, for some reason, they’ve dyed yellow. Baking soda won’t burn. Remember how they taught us to put out a grease fire on your stove by throwing baking soda on it? No? I do because they showed us a video in grade school.
There were some interesting things folks wrote in the comment section following the video. I’ll post a few that made me laugh. I’m not going to make this homemade because I’d be bored with it after three tries, but it would be easy and fairly inexpensive. And it looks like it throws a flame farther than Elon Musk’s Not-a-Flamethrower.
1) Not recommended in California.
2) Elon Musk wants to know your location
3) Much better to use a CO2 bike pump
4) This is beautiful in a way only crazy people know
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