__________________________________________________________ | | | The Guys Six Feet Under Present | | | | Part IV of the Pyromaniac Anarchy File | | | | ----------------- | | F i r e b a l l s | | ----------------- | |__________________________________________________________| This file has no introduction. We are going straight to the good stuff: [:-----:] First of all, an easy to make homemade fireball. All you need is a metal garbage can, a spray can of starting fluid (you can substitute WD-40, or some other kind of spray can that has "Extremely Flammable" printed on the side, but no gurantees. I've only tried starting fluid) and some matches. Spray half the of starting fluid into the garbage can. Done. Now, to light it, strike a match and in the same forward motion let go of the match so the lighted match falls into the garbage can. Don't stand TOO close, because even though this is weak, it can still singe your hair off your head. Also, this way of striking matches is kind of fun to make games out of. Put a rag soaked in kerosene or something down below and go up on your roof with a friend. The person to light the rag is the winner. Make bets. You can't do this game with the garbage can, however. What makes the flameball is not the liquid starting fluid on the sides, it's the fumes escaping from the saturated garbage can. Don't try to do this project on a windy day, cause it will just blow all the fumes out of the can and you can't light it. [:-----:] Flameball for after christmas: Soak a christmas tree in 3 to 5 gallons of gasolene (make sure you spread the gas all around) and light it using the same match-throwing technique described above. Make sure there's nothing above you because my dad (yeah, he did this! He didn't mean to pour so much gas on, though it singed the insulation off of some telephone wires overhead). Light it quick, cause this also works mainly on fumes. [:-----:] Carbide Bomb: This is really easy to make. Get some calcium carbide (obtainable at almost any hardware store). This stuff looks like gravel and is used in carbide lamps. Anyway, put a few peices of the carbide in a glass jug with a layer of water covering the bottom. Cap the bottle tightly and get pretty far away or behind cover. The carbide will react with the water and create a flammable gas. If you leave a burning rag nearby, you will get a good fireball. However, you also will get a broken jug and flying peices of glass. Watch the bomb through a sheet of clear plastic or swimming goggles or something. Believe me, a piece of glass in the eye hurts like a bitch! [:-----:] Now, for the best one. Get some kind of plastic bag, the bigger, the more powerful. You are going to fill this bag with acetylene. Acetylene is a very flammable gas, and it reacts with oxygen, so keep it away from normal air or it will blow up. It is used in acetylene torches, so you can probably find a good supply of the stuff down at your local hardware store. So, to get around acetylene's quirks, fill up your garbage bag with water, then fill up the garbage bag with the gas. Usually, I use acetylene straight from the torch. Refills aren't easy. Anyway, twist the opening tight and use a twistie to shut it completely. Make absolutely sure there are no leaks. None! Or it will blow up in your face. Leave the balloon in your garage until it is completely dry. Now that it's dry, very carefully open up the top a bit and drop a few rocks in. This is so it will pick up speed on the way down. Now, drop in some impact explosives. Fun Snaps are okay, but I like making my own because they are easier and work better. There are two recipes for these sort of explosives you can use. Recipe 1: Mix vaseline and potassium chlorate in a one-to-one ratio. This will make a very wet sort of muddy mixture. I could put out a fire with it wet, but I could easily start one with it dry. Just dry it in the sun on some grass. Never dry it on a street or other cement thing or roof: it might blow up just because of the heat. Recipe 2: Mix 3 grams of potassium iodine with 5 grams of iodine in a beaker with 50 ml of water in it. Now add 20 ml of ammonium hydroxide. Like the stuff above, when dry, it becomes very exlosive, but is quite safe when wet. Now drop some of your explosive in. Tie the end up as tight as possible. You now have a very powerful, shock sensitive, dangerous balloon. Go out immediately and use it. Don't transport one of these in a car or something. Drop the explosive in about a minute before you drop it. Be careful when launching this balloon, because the wind might blow it right back towards you, and that wouldn't be good. Also, you need to throw it down a ways. It needs to go far enough down so the fireball won't burn you when it blows up. That ought to keep you guys at bay until we can get another installment out. 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