Posted on 03/18/2016 2:49:31 AM PDT by Ken H
Guy uses a can of carburetor cleaner as a blowtorch and burns out large hornets nest. Starts out hilarious, but ends up being fascinating. Beautiful full HD => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2sC29_XR88
Horsepucky. There is no oxygen in the can.
Chemical warfare against bugs is totally justified!
I liked the crispy critters closeup at the end.
Had a hornets nest in a box of rags on the back porch. Went assault vehicle on them; pulled the minivan alongside, cracked the window & soaked their nest with wasp spray.
Hornets emerged with their wings fanning but unable to take off. They had lit up my ankles with multiple stings so it was fun watching them croak.
I understand how it works... I was just asking how to make it/use it. I would be a little leery of using it on Wasps... I mean i know it will work, just scared I might not get them all :)
professional carb cleaner....
gotta get it before it flies off the shelves.
great video.
“The flame can easily seep into the can and make the whole thing blow up.”
No it can’t.
There’s no oxygen in the can and you can’t burn without oxygen.
A guy I knew used to use that technique with the twenty-foot-reach spray cans of wasp & hornet killer.
Upon further investigation …
The can can explode because it can fail as a pressure vessel due to stress such as a temperature gradient. It is not a problem of the flame traveling inside the can because there is no oxygen inside, but rather excessive or uneven heating of the outside of the can making it rupture. Once it ruptures, the contents will mix with ambient oxygen as they rapidly escape from the ruptured can and result in a fireball.
I Got nailed by a hornet from a nest I had planned to leave alone.
Got some Hornet spray, donned myself in a heavy winter coat, toboggan, Divers face mast (yes) and stood back away the next evening.
Gave it a good squirt esp at the access hole.
Man, they came pouring out and dropped straight down. Not one could fly.
The spray is amazing. Highly recommend it.
That sort of makes a fella wish he had a hornet problem!
Thanks!
This is one of the great questions of our times.
I'd like to resolve it if possible - I have a lot of bug killin' to do!
Hank Well, I follow the moth in the helicopter to lure it away from the flowers, and then Roy comes along in the Lockheed Starfighter and attacks it with air-to-air missiles.
Roy A lot of people have asked us why we don’t use fly spray. Well, where’s the sport in that?
Mosquito Hunters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZvT3MHpffk
See my #29 post.
My grandmother had a nest of hornets under an elevated sidewalk that was attached to the back of her house. Her yard pitched down from the house to the alley by several feet. Over time, between settling and erosion- a gap developed under the sidewalk.
As nature would have it, hornets discovered this pleasant environment and set up a nest. Over time, they multiplied and in doing so became quite defensive- or more aptly put: aggressive/fierce. Swatting at them out of a natural reaction begot their wrath. I often mowed her lawn and in doing so annoyed the nest, quite often to the point that I would find myself under attack. I had enough close calls that if I didn’t do something, I was going to get tagged- maybe multiple times in one of their multi-pronged attacks. They are very aggressive when challenged near their nest.
I found a tennis racket in the basement and commenced to decimating the hornet’s ranks. It was exhilarating and just dangerous enough to make it almost a fair game. I’d hit a hornet with the strings and dice it into several pieces. If I missed, it was on like Donkey Kong, because the hornet would (rightly so) take my swipe as an act of war and come after me. By choosing the tennis racket, I found that I could respond lightning quick with a backhand, decimating the now full bore attacking insect. Did I mention it was exhilarating? It was kill or be stung.
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Make yourself a propane torch.
It’s cheaper in the long run and safer because you don’t have as big a risk of setting something on fire you don’t want to set on fire.
That wouldn’t happen either.
You would be letting more pressure out of the can than could possibly build up from heat and with that much heat you wouldn’t be able to hold the can.
The only way it could possibly happen is if the contents of the can is flammable, something like paint, and not just the propellant which is propane usually.
The spray tip might leak enough of the content of the can out and contents itself might catch fire and melt the plastic spray tip which will then release all the contents of the can all at once out of the hole in the top of the can, but the can itself probably wouldn’t rupture.
If the spray tip is burning and you are holding the can, when the tip lets loose it’s like holding a small rocket.
Turn the can loose and you can get covered in flames.
Whatever the cause … it can and does happen. That’s my point. It’s a dangerous game to play.
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