GIMME SOME OF THAT THAR NAPALM

[dalesys]

Don't get me started on this society's over-dependence on warning labels...they didn't even exist in mom's day and when I was a pup and we both have all our appendages.

Ditto.

I was sans eyebrows & lashes more than once, though...

[sirwired]

The real shit sandwich here is apparently we have to have it in huge red letters that pouring flammable liquid on an open flame causes fire.

And even that won't dissuade some people.

It's actually not due to flaming stupidity...

The issue is that occasionally with these things it can be burning, but not have a visible flame. People have lit their gel thingies, not seen a flame, and then poured the additional fuel on (thinking it was empty, which is why they couldn't see a flame.)

[BeenThereDoneThat]

High End Home Store pulled our gel fuel off the shelves a couple of weeks ago too. I actually got a call from a guy in a NYC high-rise who wanted to return his fuel AND the fire tables/bowls he had bought because he was afraid to use them and apparently had had a small issue with the gel fuel himself. At the time we didn't know anything about what was going on and we said we couldn't take the stuff back (fuel we don't usually take back anyway and I think he was past the return time limit on the containers), so he politely said he would probably just dispute the charge with his credit card company. I think it was later that night or maybe the next day that I actually saw the CPSC warning about the fuel and I actually left a message for my manager late at night saying "you may think I'm nuts, but you might want to look into this..."

On Tuesday we got an official copy of the CPSC recall notice and special instructions for customers who want to return the fuel and/or the tables and bowls. I hope the guy who tipped me off will be getting one of our callouts so he knows we finally realized what he'd been trying to warn us about.

[lobo94]

Burn, baby, burn!!!

[underemployeed]

I am sad I missed the band wagon.... i'm always looking for safer dangerous ways to get a bonfire going. got to love the country, I go to city "bonfires" and end up going, eh its not that big, the host goes "Your kidding I have the biggest fire pit around".... no seriously dude. I have a pile of wood the size of your bedroom. about 10X14 that is right now about 5Ft in height. With Another 50 pallets to add once it gets going, along with some more wood from that I can't burn in the house due to combustible tar it would leave in the chimney.

So, are you sure I can't pick up some of that fuel? In all seriousness I wonder if anyone has neglected to pull it yet I really do want to give it a try.

[Primer]

I am sad I missed the band wagon.... i'm always looking for safer dangerous ways to get a bonfire going. got to love the country,

If your area is still allowing fireworks this year (They've all been banned in central Texas this year because of the drought), go get some packs of "Disco Flashers." DH also like to use what we call "Blue flamers (Trioxane)" that we get at Banana Bay in Austin, but just about any military surplus place ought to carry them. Academy might carry them, but DH isn't sure about that.

We're chipping a lot of stuff this year because of the burn ban, but the fire pit--literally a pit in the yard, about the size of a backyard pool and about 8 ft deep-- is still filling up with the bigger stuff.

[underemployeed]

primer, sadly in ohio we not allowed to buy fireworks, well legally we have to agree to take them out of state. Hence why a dangerous substance that doesn't easily go out sound perfect to toss into the middle of a bonfire..... I have had a few times were by the time I got a working lighter the gas spread ontop of the dew and I was not in the safest location..... when your drunk friends think it was close, as a sober person you decide it was WAY to close.

[wolfie]

The inner pyro in me wants one. The Customer Service person in me is severely trying to beat the inner pyro in me down.

I am sad I missed the band wagon.... i'm always looking for safer dangerous ways to get a bonfire going. got to love the country,

So, are you sure I can't pick up some of that fuel? In all seriousness I wonder if anyone has neglected to pull it yet I really do want to give it a try.

Saw some today (different brand, but it was an alcohol-based gel fuel) at the Real Canadian Superstore at Don Mills and Eglinton (Toronto, Canada). They had 2-packs of the fire pots (didn't check the price), and on the other side of the aisle they had 32 ounce jugs of the fuel for $9.99.

[dalesys]

Saw some today (different brand, but it was an alcohol-based gel fuel) at the Real Canadian Superstore at Don Mills and Eglinton (Toronto, Canada). They had 2-packs of the fire pots (didn't check the price), and on the other side of the aisle they had 32 ounce jugs of the fuel for $9.99.

Relabel them as "Pants" and let Gravekeeper solve some little problems...


(There'll be a hot time in the tundra some night)

[Ironclad Alibi]

Relabel them as "Pants" and let Gravekeeper solve some little problems...


(There'll be a hot time in the tundra some night)

So that's how this global warming thing started.

[Foxfeathers]

Lest it's not SIZ, the napalm-in-a-can, BBQ starter foam.

SIZ

[redleg]

primer, sadly in ohio we not allowed to buy fireworks, well legally we have to agree to take them out of state. Hence why a dangerous substance that doesn't easily go out sound perfect to toss into the middle of a bonfire..... I have had a few times were by the time I got a working lighter the gas spread ontop of the dew and I was not in the safest location..... when your drunk friends think it was close, as a sober person you decide it was WAY to close.

to solve your dilemma i have two words. Diethaline Glycol. also known as sterno fuel. that and a long peice of cannon fuze.

[PepperElf]

blows up you say?
It sounds like they were trying to refill it while it was still burning....

sadly in ohio we not allowed to buy fireworks

They sell them in tents here. apparently as long as you use them outside of the city limits you're good.

[RetailWorkhorse]

Screw the Inner Pyro, my Outer Pyro wants one.

[dragon_wings]

Screw the Inner Pyro, my Outer Pyro wants one.

Lol. That's what I was thinking.