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Posted: 4/23/2008 10:15:53 AM EDT
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Are there any working Flame Throwers out there for sale for $2k or less??? I would think the Ruskies or ChiComs would want to find a way to make some money in their failing economies by selling to eager US NFA consumers. MadDog 
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A flame thrower is not a destructive device. It's not title II. It's not even a firearm.
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Its cool you can buy a flame thrower.......but the logic behind the other stuff.........lol Joe Blow can have a flame thrower, but has to wait forever on a form 4 item?! lol now that I think of it, maybe I can talk the wife into letting me have one for "brush burning". lol |
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I hear there are maybe 30 or so working flamethrowers in the US - expect to pay anywhere from $6k-$15k+ for a working tested unit. Stay away from those cheapo Chi-com units that are floating around as I (here's that word again) 'hear' they tend to explode at the most inopportune times. Here's a video (26mb) of some in action - note the real napalm at around the .46 mark. https://armamentsales.sslpowered.com/downloads/AZ%20Flamethrowers.wmv A pic of 'Dangerous Bob' with Pinky  Are they fun? Ask this guy.  |
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Are there any working Flame Throwers out there for sale for $2k or less??? I would think the Ruskies or ChiComs would want to find a way to make some money in their failing economies by selling to eager US NFA consumers. MadDog There is some guy that built his own.... used denatured alcohol. PVC tank. One way valve for safety, and a cut-off is pressure dropped too low. I guess it is "safe".... I personally would avoid home made tanks of alcohol strapped to my back while playing with fire. There are models available... but none ar "military" grade.... made for burning brush and such. National Laws do not effect ownership of flame throwers... check state and local laws. |
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[span style='color: rgb(51, A pic of 'Dangerous Bob' with Pinky http://i33.tinypic.com/hta6q1.jpg] Is that a homemade wand or a "pear burner"? |
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I wasn't talking about "home made, gotta be nuts to trust your life" flame throwers. I was asking about military manufacture (USA, Russian, Chicom, Korean, Japan, etc.). MadDog I was quoted a reasonable price (<2k) for a Russian. The problem is the Russian units are "high pressure" which means they must be pressurized with an explosive device. Low-pressure conversion is available, but I cannot for the life of me remember who does the conversion work. |
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I wasn't talking about "home made, gotta be nuts to trust your life" flame throwers. I was asking about military manufacture (USA, Russian, Chicom, Korean, Japan, etc.). MadDog FWIW, MadDog, military-issue flame throwers are not much more user-safe than "home-made, gotta be nuts to trust your life" flame throwers. In war-time, grunts are expendible. IMHO, there simply is no such thing as a "user-safe" flame thrower. YMMV. 
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Thanks for all the feedback guys! I am going in a different direction and will save a lot of money and possibly my life. I just registered my 37mm launcher as a DD and am concentrating on making the "cool stuff" to launch out of it. I have worked up a great recipe for Flaschette rounds and am now working on "explosive practice" rounds that stay within the ATF's limit of no more than 1/4 oz. of explosive charge including the lift charge.
MadDog 
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Are they fun?
Ask this guy. and this one............and it was even time to go to school. Don't give up. http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/1JflameT.jpg Agree they are very dangerous. Here is snapshot of a test with just 12cc of WD40. Most I have seen were restored from crushed ones, are missing the front end and have a propane torch bolted to it to replace the pyro firing system. Matches are hard to find and very expensive if you luck into an original one with the firing unit. I went to a demonstration last year. The gentleman shooting them said he wanted to talk but had leaks. We moved way back. He is one of the most knowledgeable people in the country on flamethrowers but leaks happen. Accidents can happen with anything but with a flamethrower it is going to be dramatic. I can't imagine what kind of insurance he has to cover shooting them at a public demonstration. http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/FT51.jpg |
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Check out this idiot.
http://mirror.linnwood.org/flamethrower/ |
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Was pondering this over the weekend.
How hard would it be to reverse-engineer a .mil one and reproduce it? Better yet, engineering/materials/fail-safes should be advanced over those used decades ago, so couldn't it be safer to have a new-manufacture civi flamethrower? Buttload of $$$ for whomever markets such a thing... |
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