Is this video real?

[Sir Games-A-Lot]

OK, this video was brought up on another forum I frequent:


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/193270/sq ... e_thrower/



I'm pretty convinced this is a fake from the way it was shot (the flash that occurs every time it is fired obscures the nozzle most of the time, there are at least two stops in the film, it doesn't look like there is anything in the tank, and the camera almost always follows the flame instead of staying on the super soaker. Warning the URL that appears in the video even leads to pr0n site), but one member says he has actually seen it done, so:


A. Do you think this stunt is possible at all?

B. Is this video real?


(BTW I don't mind admitting I was wrong, I just get a funny feeling about this clip that I can't shake)

[ATOMICMAN]

sadly i actually did this when i was a kid.

super soaker and filled it with gas...

stupid but very amusing. i dont suggest trying this as it is just plastic holding it all.

[timmeh87]

dosent gas make plastic melt?

anyways it looks pretty real to me. the kids in the video look to be roughly the right age to be doing something stupid like that . i wonder what exactly is in that windshield stuff that makes it so flammable?

[ATOMICMAN]

dosent gas make plastic melt

thats what eventually ended our fun, the nozzle eventually melted shut but it did work for a few minutes and a few good laughs before we caught stuff on fire that would have been safer not on fire.

[Krepticor]

gas yes it eventually dissolves plastic, however, that waser fluid is stored in a plastic container, so no, also, what melted the tip was the heat...duh

[Unidentified Assilant]

How stupid, surely something REALLY bad could of happened then.

If oxygen managed to get into the tank, wouldn't the oxygen and the gas set alight and explode?

[ATOMICMAN]

How stupid, surely something REALLY bad could of happened then.

If oxygen managed to get into the tank, wouldn't the oxygen and the gas set alight and explode?

i never said i was smart in doing it.

yeah if the flame got into the bottle and there was enough o2 inside to cause an explosion yeah. its not likely though. more likely if the bottles fuel caught, it would melt the bottle and spill flaming gas all over you. the danger in this isnt really in the item itself but the stuff you light on fire with it...

[Unidentified Assilant]

Either way not a good idea at all... I thought kids knew better.

[Metallica Man X]

woh...haven't seen that done in a while..lol. I also did something simliar...except..I used some nice super-flammable industrial cleaner from my dad's machine shop...that super soaker is no longer with us...

[bicostp]

If oxygen managed to get into the tank, wouldn't the oxygen and the gas set alight and explode?

Explosions require the right mix of fuel and air. They also generally need a source of ignition. Air simply getting into the tank won't make the super soaker explode. It will explode, however, if the flame can burn fast enough to go up the fuel line and to the tank when the mixture is right (not too rich, not too lean). That would be bad.

[gamer2]

I saw it on Unscrewed a number of years back. Its real

[limpport]

I'm planning on doing this with the Super Soakers that shoot the ball of water .

[dman762000]

take it from someone who has been making homemade whepons for years take the idea of a super-soker and make it of metal use a metal bike pump to pressurize the tank fill it with a mixture of gasoline and styrofoam and you can set stuff on fire a lot and the fire sticks to stuff and burns it ,,,,,actually don't do that I remember a very bad time for me for doing that and setting my yard on fire (almost burned down the house) so don't listen to me its a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad idea all around