Fire Extinguisher Super-soaker! (can Be Modded to Make Flamethrower)

I am liable for nothing you do with this. by reading this instructable, you accept that I am not responsable for your anything this prompts you to make.build.do, etc.



this is how to refill a basic cheap-o disposable fire extinguisher, and turn it into a super-soaker/flamethrower.

you will need:

-Plastic-head disposable fire extinguisher
-compresser w/ special nozzle (pic will be shown later)
-electrical tape and something to cut it with
-water
-someone to soak with this after your done building it!
-garden hose to clean it out with...sink will do
-trash can to dump old excess powder in


I am liable for nothing you do with this. by reading this instructable, you accept that I am not responsable for your anything this prompts you to make.build.do, etc.

Step 1: Clean It Out

spray any remaining powder in the extinguisher into a garbage can (watch your eyes - and nose....this stuff isnt good to breath).
take the garden hose and rinse it out, including the pipe and nozzle.....thise can be done be holding the lever down and spraying the hose into it.


it should look something like the picture below

Step 2: Fix the Nozzle Up

the nozzle should have a white tip. cut half of this off.

there will be a small gap between the white tip and the main black part. cover the entire white tip, and as much as possible of the black part up with the electrical tape.

now your done with the nozzle. proceed to the next step.

Step 3: Pressurize 1/2

fill the tank about 2/3 of the way with water. screw the nozzle on decently tigt but not too hard.

set the compesser up and pressurize it to 105 psi and NO MORE.

hook up the nozzle. make sure you have turned the valve (see pic) all the way off so the air wont leak out while your charging the compresser.

Step 4: Pressurize 2/2

put the compresser nozzle into the fire extinguisher nozzle as shown, and hold it very firmly with your hand, push the lever on the extinguisher down with your forearm andturn the valve on the compresser on. when the guage on the extinguisher tank stops moving, you know its not gonig to get any fuller. remove your forearm from the lever, then turn the valve on the compresser off.

you are now ready to fire!




CAUTION: do NOT make a flamethrower using this how it is. a small amount of liquid squirts out the side of the extinguisher nozzle and could cause a huge problem if it caught on fire.
and by all means do NOT NOT NOT I beg of you do not use diesel. there is a 100% chance that it will blow up while you are pressurizing it. deseil ignites under pressure, not flame, so if you put 100 psi on it, well......you get a huge fireball.

Step 5: FLAMETHROWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok heres what you do.
theres a little pin one one side of the nozzle (see pic). take this pin out, and theres a little hole where the bottom leg was. fill this hole with superglue, then stick a little piece of something in there. let dry for 15 min. repeat (except for piece of something), and....repeat again.....and once more. you should have a nice thick layer of superglue now.

Step 6: Gas It Up

fill with gasoline and pressurize

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DO not use diesel. diesel explodes under pressure, and well, your putting about 100 psi on it.........

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now, hold the extinguisher in your right hand, and the torch in your left. hold the torch about 7 in. from the nozzle on the extinguisher, and let er' rip.


I'll be posting videos soon (maybe)

Comments

[KennyN10]

Well, maybe juice hot peppers and use that instead of gasoline. You wouldn't even need to ignite it to get "fire" out of it. Good for self defense, annoying neighbors or taco salad. Don't forget to use vinegar instead of water, use the hottest peppers possible, boil the juice for maximum potency and strain the pulp out well so the juice isn't so thick it jams the extinguisher. Repeat the process until you have enough to fill the extinguisher 1/2 with juice/95 PSI of air because juice is thicker than water, can produce higher/greater differences in spikes of pressure in the nozzle and needs more volume and/or pressure to push it the same distance but the extinguisher can't handle more pressure so you need more volume of propellant instead. Make sure juice is room temp before you add it to the extinguisher and compress or you you'll get too much pressure in the extinguisher when hot, too little pressure in the extinguisher when cool and weakening of material caused by extreme temp changes. The acid in the vinegar and peppers may weaken the container over time if it's not resistant to rust, so empty, hose out and check the container every few months. a bucket can be used to spray the juice into so you don't waste it. You can use the juice in spray bottles and squirt guns even if the extinguisher becomes rusty inside. Beware of ricocheting juice when emptying it into bucket. Be warned, you'll want a gas or dust mask, goggles, HDPE, rubber or latex gloves, open windows and an equal and opposing # of fans blowing air outside as the fans blowing inside or extreme tolerance built up to hot peppers, food and steam from potent acids if you intend to boil the concoction down to a thick but strainable liquid for maximum potency.

[Darzen]

BOOM!

[Darzen]

If you put water in this (or any other) fire extinguisher, pressurize it, and spray, you should notice that a few drops of liquid escape there path and fall straight down onto your feet. If this was gasoline, imagine what would happen if these drops of gas caught on fire... Gasoline shooting everywhere, things getting caught on fire... My point is that if for some reason you do make A flamethrower, make A safe nozzle that will not spray little drops of gas everywhere. Just be safe!

[allmercy]

On Ebay I sell them seller ID Allmercy just do the advanced search by seller and put my ID in and buy one or two or ten.

[pyrogreasemonkey]

gasoline also combusts under pressure, much less in fact, but it must be mixed with air.

[pyrogreasemonkey]

also since there is oxygen being pumped in from the compressor it could fire back into it and explode, basically a pipe bomb

[pyrogreasemonkey]

no fuel will auto detonate under pressure unless mixed with oxygen and compressed quickly enough that it heats up a lot. diesels work on the principle that when you compress a gas it heats up. in a diesel the air pressure goes from ambient to 500 psi in a fractoin of a secound, not enough time for it to cool so when the fuel is injected to the hot compressed air it ignites instantly. when you fill a flamable gas cylinder, first off there should be no oxygen in it, but the pressure should rise slowly so it doesnt heat up a lot.

[neardood]

please do and tell me

[The Musicman]

i hope that was sarcasm.. he might die

[C.D33]

diesel combusts under pressure only with heat with the right fuel air mix, and with much higher pressure. Nitroglycerin would probably explode under the forces mentioned, as would acetlyene gas...

[didgitalpunk]

aytylen gas bottles are filled with acetylene dissolved in water, itself disolved in rock.<>

[m5industriesinc]

not acetylene...... they put much greater pressure on acetylene when they put it into cylinders...

[snowluck2345]

Are you sure, it dissolves pretty quickly so the pressure may be much less.

[snowluck2345]

acetylene is unstable, even at room pressure, it is dissolbed in acetone in acetylene tanks if i remember currectly and the tanks are aroudn 500psi, but the pressure is being exerted directly on the gas

[C.D33]

Like wtf i didnt even write this i think ive been hacked :/ i dont even no what tht m,eans lolzys

[mj10021]

Could you fill it with butane or propane instead if gas

[Thelonelysandwitch]

You can fill with anything that is flammable and wont explode under pressure (i.e. diesel, jet fuel, etc.)

[s.lucero]

Any fuel will auto ignite at a certain pressure.

[s.lucero]

It should be noted that ALL FUELS will auto ignite once a certain pressure is attained. Not just diesel.

[twocvbloke]

Did someone say flamethrower?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjf-2lHFHAc

>:D