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Thread ID: 84009 2007-10-21 02:20:00 Lets talk....FIRE Metla (12) PC World Chat
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603676 2007-10-21 02:20:00 Alrighty, Hypothetically, Lets say someone wanted to set fire to a radio control car, and then drive it around a barren section setting fire to the place until there was a huge fire blazing and lighting up the night....all for the purpose of a video competition

What products would I use?, and where would I get them?

I'm thinking on the car itself I would require some sort of flammable gel, That hopefully wouldn't ruin the car until the final act, where the car would explode.

And I would need a product that I could saturate the rest of the props in, something that wont evaporate and will light easily and burn like hell.




Plan B is to soak an old car (full sized) in petrol, set fire to the RC, and just launch it off a ramp into the back seat....then have an explosion.
Metla (12)
603677 2007-10-21 02:22:00 Ever thought of attaching an aerosol container to the top of the RC car and basically turning it into an RC flamethrower
or perhaps one of those little campfire butane tanks
Morgenmuffel (187)
603678 2007-10-21 02:27:00 Your phones haven't been tapped by any chance have they Metla? :D

In all seriousness though, what about mounting a blowtorch on the back of the RC car? Would help the final explosion too.
somebody (208)
603679 2007-10-21 02:47:00 My phones have some strange clicks in them since I started posting to Metla...

Well..here goes another.

Make some napalm...not the real stuff but close enough!
SurferJoe46 (51)
603680 2007-10-21 02:47:00 A length of burning alkathene hose sets fire to things it passes over quite well, although I haven't tried it in a breeze. Beware - this may void your radio equipment warranty.:D R2x1 (4628)
603681 2007-10-21 02:49:00 Thats not a bad idea, I could even soak a pice of rope in fuel and tow that around, That would also stop the car catching fire....to soon Metla (12)
603682 2007-10-21 03:31:00 You have a PM ;) Myth (110)
603683 2007-10-21 03:42:00 I see that, Thanks. Metla (12)
603684 2007-10-21 07:19:00 Thats not a bad idea, I could even soak a pice of rope in fuel and tow that around, That would also stop the car catching fire....to soon


I have a few farming customers that use a similar method for burning off hillsides and scrub.

They come to me and get an old truck or tractor tube, tie it to there ATV bike with a piece of chain, pour some diesel on it, light it and then tow it around, bits of burning rubber fall off starting the burn off. It must work a treat as it is a common method. Maybe you could use a scaled down version for your RC car. I hope you post a link to the video!

mik
miknz (3731)
603685 2007-10-21 07:24:00 There's a fire-starting product that comes in a gel - last time I saw it was at a Four Seasons shop.

CRC is pretty flammable too - and would stick to the things that you want to ignite with the RC car. (Makes a good propellant for the old pipe-and-sparkplug gun too.)

Are you jotting all this down before the thread gets pulled...?
Deane F (8204)
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