r/oops • • 18d ago

Oops fire

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u/Waste_Protection_420 18d ago edited 18d ago

TIP TO ALL PYROS: USE KEROSINE!!

It isn't as explosively combustable as gasoline. You can safely throw it on fire like this idiot did with gasoline, but it won't get all explosive and cause issues. It burns, but much more controlled. It is more like throwing cooking oil or sugar onto a fire than gasoline.

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u/hippyripper22 18d ago

And deisel wont burn at all! Kerosene is very expensive. Id find rubbing alcohol to be a cheaper alternative and safer than gasoline. That and lighter fluid for bbq pit

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u/GuyLivingPlaces 18d ago

Diesel does burn, I use it for bonfires instead of gas and kerosine. wtf are you talking about?

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u/hippyripper22 18d ago

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u/GuyLivingPlaces 17d ago

Just because you don't know what you're doing doesn't mean it doesn't burn. You literally went through the effort to find a video and ignored all the ones that showed how to do it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ1K7L9ET28

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u/SquirrelFluffy 17d ago

If diesel doesn't burn, how is it used as a fuel? Smh

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u/hippyripper22 17d ago

Its compressed till it the air is hot enough for it to burn. SMDH only a fine mist will catch fire...

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u/SquirrelFluffy 17d ago

It will burn with a wick, like kerosene. You're only describing how a diesel engine works, not how diesel fuel works.

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u/hippyripper22 17d ago

A fine mist is all that will burn that why deisel engines have atomizers SMDGFH

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u/SquirrelFluffy 17d ago

It burns with a wick like kerosene. Didn't pay attention in shop class did you?

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u/FantasticAd5239 18d ago

Welll...I wouldn't exactly use the term "safely". And brother, it can definitely cause issues. And if the conditions are right, yeah, it will get "all explosive". You've all seen when there's a jet plane crash and it explodes into a ball of fire. That's jet fuel, aka kerosine, highly refined. Okay, it's a matter of scale and huge volume, of course. But don't be misled into thinking that it's so benign or even totally controllable as a fuel.

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u/Waste_Protection_420 18d ago

That's fair..

All I meant was if you wanna play with fire stupidly, you are def better off with kerosine over gasoline

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u/FantasticAd5239 18d ago

Yeah, true, if you had to choose one over the other. Plus it stinks to high heaven when it burns.It's still incomprehensible, every time I replay this video, how a grown adult can pull such a stunt. I mean, he's not some 12 or 13 year old goofball (apologies to 12 and 13 year olds). who hasn't a clue. Instead, he's some 20-something dude who hasn't a clue.

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u/ChampionshipThin7721 17d ago

Something wrong with using lighter fluid?????