Comments on: DIY X-Men: flame throwing wrist guard

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:06:15 +0000

In response to Jay, this isn’t a canister of acetylene or oxygen that will react with itself and it definitely doesn’t need a flashback arrestor. You don’t see flashback arrestors on barbecues do you? There is no way the fuel (butane/propane) inside the canister is going to ‘explode’ without the presence of oxygen.

By: compmadness

compmadness — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:05:35 +0000

i love how even the easiest sounding hacks have to most friggin wires imaginable :p nice project thought hope you got a safety switch so if you scratch your face you wont burn something off :P kinda reminds me of the spider man web shooter maybe you should attach the can to your wrist or something *thumbs up*

By: Aina

Aina — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:35:22 +0000

Everett!

Wheres the write up man?

This looks like a fun project!!

By: pistolpete

pistolpete — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:46:13 +0000

This is pretty kewl, lets make one that forms the balls of fire :). I don’t wish harm on strangers, just small animals that invade my yard to uproot plants.

By: John

John — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:25:26 +0000

Did you check this link out??? http://youtube.com/watch?v=iRgRussN858

By: jccalhoun

jccalhoun — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:24:42 +0000

While I’m sure that there is some mutant that shoots fire none of the main X-Men have fire powers.

By: Andrew Pollack

Andrew Pollack — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:52:34 +0000

When I’m not hacking hardware, or writing software for a living, I’m a volunteer firefighter (an engine company Lt, actually). Having met severely burned people, and having seen a few major burns — and having had a few minor ones — this thing makes me cringe. I’ve been on an attack line at two structure fires in the last 10 days.

On behalf of your neighbors, the 86% of firefighters in the US who are volunteer or call-responders — please don’t try this.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:01:50 +0000

19) Those who can’t do teach then?

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:03:37 +0000

Chris, I wonder if Mike was Making a joke. Reference a certain solo pleasurable activity that is supposed to grow hair on the palm of men engaging in it.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:02:25 +0000

John mistakenly believes that I’m wishing harm on Everett. Perhaps I worded my postly badly, but Nothing could be further from the truth. Nonetheless, I am hopeful that, when the inevitable happens, he incinerates _only_ himself.

Other posters have flagged up the problems. There doesn’t appear to be any mechanism to arrest flashback. The method of extinguishing the flame is counter-intuitive. There’s no shielding between flame and hand. The positioning of the flame, while cool, in echoing that of Pyro, shields it from the user’s line of sight.

As to jealousy ? Suffice it to say, I moved from making such projects to marking them about two decades ago. Old and bitter my students and I would probably agree with ;-)

By: PKM

PKM — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:31:13 +0000

Person: I think Mike was paraphrasing the old joke about “the first sign of madness is hairs on the palm of your hand”. Either that or he’s displaying the second sign :)

tank, will d: it’s presumably on the bottom so you can make the “go web go!” gesture. If we’re going to be sensible about stuff, it’s a wrist-mounted DIY flamethrower- I think the only really sensible thing to do with this is carefully disassemble and place in a bucket of water, but as long as they are aware of the dangers and don’t do anything stupid with it then it’s up to them.

By: john

john — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:32:27 +0000

jay’s just (old/bitter and) jealous because he can’t do this himself. it takes someone intelligent to do a project like this one, probably someone who wouldn’t wish harm (i.e., incineration) on a stranger.

i think it’s perfect that the flame source is at the top, especially because it seems from the video that the whole point is to recreate the one from x-men. awesome work!

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:28:34 +0000

I trust the follow up, when Everett incinerates (hopefully) himself (rather than someone else or their property), will be posted ?

The nerd wrapper of ‘it’s for my mechanisms class’ in no way mitigates the ‘hold my beer and watch this, dude’ abject idiocy of this project.

By: will d

will d — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:04:06 +0000

this is stupidly and unnecessarily unsafe. why would you locate the flame nozzle in line of sight to your flesh (ie, palms, fingers)? if you fire this at the wrong arm angle, you’re burnt!

By: Angus

Angus — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:04:43 +0000

I think the worst part is how you have to fight your instinct to stay away from the fire to put it out.