PROJECTS
All you readers (all six of you) no doubt have seen a list of things I wish to accomplish before the end of the year. That list is going to get thrown out for now. I got a job (an awful one) and going back to school is going to be difficult since my MBA application got REJECTED. Other than using Dan McCleary's computer chair, everything else was accomplished.
So time to make a new list. It's been a long while since I've built a new physical project. A little more than a year ago I helped my father build an attic and before that were a few wacky projects in college. Those projects will of course be discussed in a later post.
The next project will have to be something dangerous and downright diabolical. Trying to earn money by working long hours in tech support has made me even more short tempered than usual. It's time to direct some of this destructive energy into making a weapon. What kind of weapon you ask... well a flame thrower of course.
After reading The Zombie Survival Guide by Michael Brooks, I realized that I needed more effective means of destroying hordes of the undead if they ever choose to attack my home. Small firearms aren't very useful against the undead. A well placed head shot on a Zombie with any round smaller than a .44 may not be enough. Automatic weapons are also in short supply for many of us civilian folk, so small arms fire will not be sufficient to fend off a full horde.
A home built flamethrower is the perfect answer. If the flame thrower is properly constructed, it can be capable of deliviring a stream of flame over 40 feet in length. Perfect for a nice spread flame over a wide area to kill as many zombies as possible.
There are well documented ways on building your own flame thrower for less than 100 bucks using pvc piping and a few valves. The design can be as simple as making on long pvc tube capped off at both ends. This of course limits your choice of flamable materials. PVC piping dissolves in gasoline making the fuel necessary for a proper flame thrower a little more scarce. The next alternative would be denatured alcohol but this too has known issues. To make sure there would be no leaks in the aparatus, pvc cementing glue and teflon would have to be used but unfortunately both of those materials are dissolved by denatured alcohol.
The next possible alternative is to use a cheap bug sprayer used by any lawn-care service. Not only are these tanks relatively inexpensive but they're designed to be pressurized. The tank can be pressurized using any common air compressor. All that would be left is the spraying apparatus with a pilot light attached. There you have it, a flame thrower ready to burn armies of the undead to a cinder.
