flaming pumpkins

topic posted Thu, September 27, 2007 - 8:39 PM by 
It's almost Halloween time, kids! Here's a way to impress the youngsters, AND burn your neighborhood down:

Step 1: drink can of beer.
Step 2: rip the aluminum can in half, preferably using just your hands. A little blood to start your day never hurts.
Step 3: pour some white gas (Coleman fuel) into the bottom half of the can, maybe 1 inch or so
Step 4: put the can into the pumpkin
Step 5: light a match, and drop it into the can from about a foot up
Step 6 (optional): withdraw your hand quickly, before the "whooph!" of the fuel lighting

Using a lighter is considered "Safety seventh", and not recommended... unless you have welding gloves and a welding jacket on, in which case you should go for it.

I stuck a pic from when I did this a few years ago into the tribe pics. It was a lot of fun and it is a great way to attract the kids to your house.
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  • Re: flaming pumpkins

    Sun, September 30, 2007 - 11:52 AM
    Our effigy for octOHburn next weekend is going to be an octopus with a 100 lb pumpkin jack o lantern for a head. Last night Will, my fire lead, David, my effigy co-lead and I spent three plus hours practicing fire effects for the burn.

    They all consisted of a bag of accelerant and fire. We tried several ways to get the bag to burst and fire to pour out of the mouth of the pumpkin, involving small explosive charges, fuses, wicking and other fun things. Having run out of DNS (denatured alchohol) and pretty much having figured out the how and what we're going to do, David said "Hey, I have some white gas and we don't need the pumpkin anymore."

    So, off to the races we went with a HUGE bag of white gas and about two feet of fuse. it took a second for the bag to rupture fully, but once it did, "WHOOSH! Now that's a fire!"

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