• Aquila
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    5 months ago

    TIL I can walk around with a flamethrower as long as I have a balloon strapped to my back

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      5 months ago

      Pretty much, yes.

      Our burners consume raw, liquid propane, at 150PSI to the blast valve. Normally, when liquid expands into a gas, the temperature drops precipitously, and with it, the pressure. However, we feed that liquid propane into a heat exchanger: the coils at the top of the burner. This superheats the propane, allowing it to vaporize easily and rapidly after it passes through the nozzles on the burner ring.

      The end result is a 30’ flame.

      You’d want to fashion some sort of sling and stock to handle that burner without its usual frame but it’s certainly doable.