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Offline SaburoS

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« Reply #45 on: January 23, 2003, 06:48:13 PM »
ROFL!!! Man, those are funny!
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« Reply #46 on: January 24, 2003, 05:26:02 AM »
A *very* long time ago when I didn't know about the effects of fire + hair spray, I had a cool thought of litting up paper in the toilet and then extinguish it with the hair spray....
Well.. instead of the fire going away, the hair spray turned out ot be a flamethrower :rolleyes:
It was pretty cool... but I decided to never do that one again..
(I was too young to be educated of it by the movies of hair spray flamethrowers :>)

Then cousin had some of these plastic soldier figures and some of those vehicles, tanks and planes which comes with them in same packs.
We used to shoot those with a gun and burn :)
The melting plastic dropping down was pretty cool looking and sounding.

What was cooler, was burning other friends toy cars.
Metal frame and plastic tires/inside.
Of course we burned bit bigger toy car, which was a spring powered.. you know..  roll it backwards on the floor and then it'll goes forward.
At first it didn't lit up at all.. but then it lit up with nice big flames all the sudden and lit up nice and bright :>
The metal must been dealt with some kind of oil... or the paint.
During burning the spring gave up and made some sudden bang from inside the car when it gave up.. we scared that one :>
Those cars looked quite neat.. little bit of hammering and they would have looked very much like been in an accident ;P

Otherwise.. nothing bigger.... always safe player ;)
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« Reply #47 on: January 24, 2003, 08:50:41 AM »
Greese, you have left an unpleasant image in my mind. :D
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« Reply #48 on: January 24, 2003, 09:40:35 AM »
:D
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« Reply #49 on: January 24, 2003, 09:48:06 AM »
Got caught with matches during a very dry summer around the side of our summer cabin at Cass Lake, Minn. at age 5. Apparently I got a lickin' (don't remember it though, just remember getting busted) and learned my lesson.  

Torched a couple balsa wood models with gasoline and matches (after months of hard labor building them) when I was like 12.

Thats about it.
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« Reply #50 on: January 24, 2003, 09:50:34 AM »
In the '70's, I removed the gas tank from my airplane because it had a pin leak, the result of a sheet metal screw rubbing a hole in it over time.

I had the tank out and laying on the grass in my backyard. I had planned on trying to braze or solder to repair the small hole.

I figured that if I filled the tank up with water, it would force the avgas fumes out of the tank. So to be extra safe, I completely filled and emptied the tank with water from the hose 4 times.

I sat on a stool in the yard to work on the tank. I fired up the torch near the gas tank opening and WHHOOOOOOMPFP...

I was blown backwards off the stool - my eyebrows got burnt and I had a lot of stinky singed hair and burns.

I never could completely understand this. The only thing I could figure is that gasoline will actually permeate metal over time, and will still fume out even if you wash it with water...
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« Reply #51 on: January 24, 2003, 10:21:28 AM »
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« Reply #52 on: January 24, 2003, 12:35:49 PM »
Since I build plastic models a lot, I usually run out of room in my bedroom to hang all of them, so the ones that are old or really crappy get taken down and set in the garage to be destroyed. I do this many ways: shooting them with my BB gun, smashing them with a hammer, and the most fun when the parents aren't home, dousing them in gasoline and lighting them on fire.

One year, I was surprised when my Dad gave me the idea of blowing up my old models with M-80's. So, one day in the summer, he and I went to my grandfather's farm in Springtown, taking along an old B-29 model I built. I had since built a new B-29 and B-36, so did not need this one. Anyways, we get out there and my grandfather brings out a single M-80 from his collection. I'm talking the real M-80, the one that can blow a mailbox completely over a house.

Anyways, my Dad pulled off one of the engine mounts and taped the M-80 on the inside of the wing as best he could. He then reattached the engine mount with the fuse hanging out and we took it outside. I lit the fuse and threw the model into the air.

POW!!!

The entire wing exploded and disentigrated and the model crashed to earth. Upon inspection, it looked like it had been hit by a German rocket. The entire wing was gone, and a huge chunck of the fuselage was gone. The other wing snapped on impact. We then disposed of the corpse and went back into the house.

It's now an annual thing. The neighbors get a kick out of it. I'll post a video someday.

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« Reply #53 on: January 24, 2003, 01:20:32 PM »
Well this one is so much playing with fire reclessly but accidently.....

Summer time setting in a Pine forest near my house my self and another group of kids decided to build a fort. so we spent weeks afterschool take the old dead pine tree and arranging them around a little group of tree's. we too and made cross members to frame in the top then laid logs standing on end leaning up for the walls, covered the roof with logs laying flat acrossed the top. then covererd to whole thing with dead dry PINE needles.

so imaging a little hut 5 ft tall flat roof and covered in pine needles.

Well one kid decides it'ld be a cool idea to install a little fire place inside.  He took some old metal can cut an opening in to it and some 5inch pipe to be our smoke stack.

We modified the fort so there was a hole for our smoke stack to exit  and thru pine needles around it (to seal it up from the rain((like it would help))).  after all our hard work we decide to light a lil fire and try it out.  
10 minutes later we look up at the roof and notice all the neeldes around the stack are on fire............

The big kid or oldest guy of the bunch proceeds to get on top to try and stomp this thing out well the stomping did do anything so in his frustration he start jumping on it.....
crash thru the roof he goes ...... new there he was standing in side the burning fort which about 50% covered in flame and growing rapidly  (you know how dry pine burn)

he manages to dive out the entrance and not get burnt  and we run to the house and call the fire department.
the show up 5 min later (they are at the end of the road 1mile away)

By the time they get there, there is flames shooting out the top of the pine forest and an hour later they get the fire out!

i was 13 when this happend and 30 now , to this day that forest is still scared from that fire, and the hole in the canopy is still visable.

ah the things we did as kids.........


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« Reply #54 on: January 24, 2003, 04:12:53 PM »
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Funny damn thread.
« Reply #55 on: January 24, 2003, 04:28:54 PM »
LOL some of us are crazy, and others of you are just WAY insane.


LOL. Keep them coming.

Oh and for the record I have never lit a fart.
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