What flammable liquid will not melt the plastic in short order?
Alcohol.
We filled it with regular gasoline, duct-taped a wooden dowel to the nozzle, and then duct-taped a zippo lighter to the end of the dowel. Previously in the week we’d received a delightful book in the mail (ordered thru a boy scout magazine!) called “incendiaries and other explosives”, and we’d begun experimenting with various napalm concoctions as well.
Anyways, back to the flamethrower- it worked for approximatel a minute, maybe less? But it worked incredibly before melting into a flaming gob of plastic. I will never forget that image of a twenty foot jet of fire and the looks on the neighborhood boys’ faces.
We’ve all led fairly normal lives since, note. No prison for arson activities, etc ;)
We filled it with regular gasoline, duct-taped a wooden dowel to the nozzle, and then duct-taped a zippo lighter to the end of the dowel. Previously in the week we’d received a delightful book in the mail (ordered thru a boy scout magazine!) called “incendiaries and other explosives”, and we’d begun experimenting with various napalm concoctions as well.
Anyways, back to the flamethrower- it worked for approximatel a minute, maybe less? But it worked incredibly before melting into a flaming gob of plastic. I will never forget that image of a twenty foot jet of fire and the looks on the neighborhood boys’ faces.
We’ve all led fairly normal lives since, note. No prison for arson activities, etc ;)