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Post subject: Mad Max inspired "Flamethrower Ukelele"
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:23 pm
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If you have not seen Mad Max : Fury Road, there are a few scenes featuring a Wall of Sound and Doof Warrior playing a "Flamethrower Guitar" :twisted: :twisted:

So my question is (half serious/half in jest) when will the master builders at Fender Customs Shop make a "Flaming Stratocaster" :?: :?: :?:


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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:33 pm
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Fun in a pyro way lol. Thanks for posting. :D

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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 5:59 pm
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'Cause... Why wouldn't you... :? :? :?

When I saw the thread title, I was expecting something more like this:

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BTW, the Flamethrower was invented by a guy who said: " I want to light that guy over there on Fire... I just don't want to have to walk over there to do it..."

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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 7:35 pm
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Speaking of flames, combine gasoline with soap or detergent in a 55 gallon drum barrel and you'll get an interesting concoction guaranteed for a few laughs at the next family barbecue, or perhaps not. :P

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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:11 pm
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PaulLF wrote:
Speaking of flames, combine gasoline with soap or detergent in a 55 gallon drum barrel and you'll get an interesting concoction guaranteed for a few laughs at the next family barbecue, or perhaps not. :P


Actually, Detergent won't work, you need a gelling agent.

Soap does work as the high Fat content of Soap will cause the fuel to gel.

In real Napalm, naphthenic and palmitic acids are used as gelling agents (and also where Napalm got it's name).

It's true destructive value is not from exploding or burning a victim, but from rapidly deoxygenating the existing air and generating large amounts of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide which suffocate and/or poison the victim.

Unfortunately, it's not strictly picnic-legal as the use against civilian populations was banned by the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 1980.

Sufficient quantities of Vodka-Watermelons can have similar effects however, and these are totally legal !! :wink: :lol: :lol:

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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2015 1:12 pm
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Mad Max Fury Road...

GREAT FRIGGIN FLICK!!!

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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2015 3:53 pm
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PaulLF wrote:
Speaking of flames, combine gasoline with soap or detergent in a 55 gallon drum barrel and you'll get an interesting concoction guaranteed for a few laughs at the next family barbecue, or perhaps not. :P


Actually, Detergent won't work, you need a gelling agent.

Soap does work as the high Fat content of Soap will cause the fuel to gel.

In real Napalm, naphthenic and palmitic acids are used as gelling agents (and also where Napalm got it's name).

It's true destructive value is not from exploding or burning a victim, but from rapidly deoxygenating the existing air and generating large amounts of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide which suffocate and/or poison the victim.

Unfortunately, it's not strictly picnic-legal as the use against civilian populations was banned by the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 1980.

Sufficient quantities of Vodka-Watermelons can have similar effects however, and these are totally legal !! :wink: :lol: :lol:

cheers!


Yeah, I wasn't sure exactly what it was, just something about soap and gasoline. I think I read about it when I was 13 in this book about the Vietnam War where there were stories told by the people who were there and mentioned something about it. I don't know exactly, it's been 30 years since I read it.

I never attempted to make the stuff. It was bad enough a friend of mine and I, when we were a lot younger, tried to reenact the scene from the original Star Trek where Kirk was fighting the Gorn and he mentioned the mixture of gun powder and made a cannon from some bamboo. We thought, hey we have chemistry sets and there's a bunch of bamboo in the back yard and let's make one of those and set it off in the alley. Luckily, we were missing one of the ingredients needed, because I'm pretty sure that might have ended badly in some way or another, sans the risk of any personal injury or worse. :P It was next to the detached garage and my Dad had his truck parked back there. Sometimes curiosity can be a bad thing in uncontrolled circumstances.

Speaking of picnics and alcohol, there was an instance where I was over at someone's house many years ago and they had the bright idea to pour gasoline on a grill to get the fire really going. Needless to say, that's probably not the best way to trim your eyebrows. :P

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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2015 3:56 pm
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Mad Max Fury Road...

GREAT FRIGGIN FLICK!!!

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Unfortunately, I haven't got to see it yet. I'll probably get it when it comes out on DVD. That's what usually happens with me anyhow.

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PaulLF wrote:
Speaking of picnics and alcohol, there was an instance where I was over at someone's house many years ago and they had the bright idea to pour gasoline on a grill to get the fire really going. Needless to say, that's probably not the best way to trim your eyebrows. :P


:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:44 pm
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captainc wrote:
Mad Max Fury Road...

GREAT FRIGGIN FLICK!!!

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As Quentin Tarantino said, "Nobody films cars like the Aussies".


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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:15 pm
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PaulLF wrote:
Speaking of picnics and alcohol, there was an instance where I was over at someone's house many years ago and they had the bright idea to pour gasoline on a grill to get the fire really going. Needless to say, that's probably not the best way to trim your eyebrows. :P


Yeah, I had an similar experience a while ago. In the end we had only potato salad and a lot of wine but no steaks :wink:

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