homemade flamethrower
DirtySanchez
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Qn_LkOhGg&feature=related
Anyone ever make one or have a good guide to making one. Ive made the supersoaker flamethrower before but now i want to make a good one.
Anyone ever make one or have a good guide to making one. Ive made the supersoaker flamethrower before but now i want to make a good one.
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Skip a few minutes into it, we had some problems.
There's mine, it is made from propane tanks and toilet seat bolts.
The gun portion, some aluminum trim attached to a aircompressor siphon gun with a blowtorch on the end for the pilot light.
The tanks. The one on the left is filled with compressed air, the one on the right has a copper dip tube stuck about 1/2 inch from the bottom inside it, and is filled mostly with kerosene.
Air pushes the kerosene out, through the dip tube, into the gun. This hasn't worked for about a year now, however. In need of rebuilding.
More pictures if you want em'.
More pics when you get the chance. Im building this thing.
Mine isn't functional at the moment. Last time I tried it, the pilot light failed to ignite the kerosene for some reason. Since then, I accidentally broke the pilot light (Propane torch)...
I was searching for flamethrower plans on google again to see if anybody had made one and posted somewhere about it since I last did research for mine, and I came across this website: http://flamethrowerplans.com/
Very shittily made, and they stole a line from George Carlin. Classy.
They're also trying to charge people money for plans to the flamethrower they made, and don't give any clues to the basic design...I even looked through the FTP folder they upload pictures, nothing.
Except, I found their downfall. They have a thumbnail preview of ALL their plans. They didn't count on anyone zooming in on it.
If you try really hard, you can read the words, and easily make out the picture diagrams. Here's the link: http://flamethrowerplans.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Picture-6.png
And here's a picture I made after squinting for too long at pixels:
With that basic information, you should be able to piece a damn good one together, much better than mine. Fuel goes in the air tank (No idea what fuel they used), and the CO2/High Pressure Air Tank for paintball pressurizes the whole thing. Pretty nice.
You might want to save the picture and zoom in on it yourself to make out any other details.
Strangely enough, the basic design these guys are selling are exactly the same as the ones I drew up back on totse/zoklet before I started work on it. Only reason why I didn't build it was because I had a budget of $0.00 and whatever I could steal from Ace Hardware.
I plan on making mine like this when I rebuild it.
I picked up a 1968 water fire extinguisher today.. The cap screws right off to fill with fuel and it has a schrader valve built right in for pressurizing. Ill post pics of the build when i get around to it.
This bro, I'd love to see it in action. Might get around to building something like this myself one day, I need a new project to keep me busy
Ah, that sounds like it'd work great!
And yeah, power washer gun is what they used.
I still don't have mine working, other projects taking priority over it, but it'll work again eventually. Hope it works out for you, just remember to be careful.
And yeah, my avatar is actually me shooting my flamethrower resized.
Exactly....last time I attempted to use it, the stream refused to light. Which confused me, because nothing that would have affected the stream or the pilot light had changed since last time that I was aware of.
Just an old fire extinguisher modded to be counter productive.
It's getting ready to be charged from my air compresser so that's why that hose / lever is attached.
Al
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Pic of the front with the torch lit.
Al