posted August 27, 1999 10:08 PM            

Have any of you ever heard of a dust explosion? Thease happen in grain elevators where farmers store their picked crops. During unloading the dry crop (such as corn) into the silo a large amount of corn dust is thrown into the air. If Buba the farmer fires up a cigarette this dust can ignite and blow up the silo and send Buba to the promise land. The explosion is instantaneous just like gasoline vapors.

Ok, knowing that principle allows us to create controlled explosions and flash fires. It just so happens that there are other dusts that explode, such as powdered, NON-DAIRY coffee creamer. I had good success with a brand called "N' Joy" so far. If yu can't afford it you can get it from Taco Bell. I am sure many others would work as well. I plan to try Coffee Mate soon. You must remember though, it has to be NON-DAIRY.

If you load it into a straw dry, and slowly blow it over a candle it will combust and flare up. You could load a babies ear syringe (squeeze bulb) with the dry creamer and squeeze it over a flame. Or tape the rubber syringe to a lighter, flick the flint and light the lighter, then squeeze the bulb and fire a large cluod of creamer dust in front of it. This will result in a large firey burst.

There are many other products that can be substiuted for the creamer. Such as regular old kitchen flour. It needs to have high concentration of corn product in it.

posted August 27, 1999 11:49 PM            

Hehehe, those microwave projecting devices seem like an interesting project.
You can buy microwave detectors from radio shack for testing to see if a micrwave is leaking which would be useful in the construction as to avoid exposure to the user , heh.

posted August 28, 1999 01:21 AM            

Your absolutely right about fluid being more reliable than coffee creamer. I'm just trying to teach the newbies a few tricks of the trade. Using dads coffee creamer is a pretty devious way to lure them into my web and teach them my ways.

posted August 28, 1999 02:16 PM            

ohwell, im sure a relay could be hooked up to one for it to be converted to a switching device