post by Uzi- | | Sobe bombs < on 8/25/2010 1:07 AM >
Glass sobe bottles or whiskey bottles or anything else with a metal lid make some nice pillars of fire when filled with gas.
Note: Sometimes they explode and send glass shards everywhere so don't stand too close
These photo's where taken in my back yard and the fire pit with the bottle in it is over 8 ft. deep. They shoot flames 30-50 feet in the air and will attract attention and burn the surroundings just a fair warning.
post by unlisted | | Re: Sobe bombs <Reply # 1 on 9/7/2010 12:54 AM >
One thing you should consider to make it "semi safer" (I am using that term loosely) is to get some cast iron pipe- ideally a foot long, and wide enough to fit the bottle into. That way, if it blows up, most the glass will be contained, other than the stuff flying way up... (none blowing out..)
Just a thought. Personally, I would not do this... I got better (safer) ways to play with gas/liquid/solid flammables...
post by Uzi- | | Re: Sobe bombs <Reply # 2 on 9/7/2010 9:49 PM >
Yeah if this had been a fire just sitting on the ground I would have definitely put them in something. You can't really tell from the picture but the fire was in an 8'ft. pit that I dug with a loader so it wasn't so bad if one blew up.
post by Uzi- | | Re: Sobe bombs <Reply # 4 on 1/29/2011 2:02 AM >
You take a Sobe bottle with the metal lid and fill it with gas. It sucks because now they seem making them out of plastic. At any rate it works with any metal lid type bottle, but Sobe were the best I'd found.
Then you lower it into the fire the gas builds pressure and blows the lid off. BOOM column of fire!
It is important to keep straight up and down. These things shoot 35+ feet so make sure of where its aimed lest you become BBQ haha. If you've got a chance to drive a pipe with the same I.D. into your fire pit ahead of time that works really good. If not I just make up a circle of logs or whatever else you are burning to support the bottle from tipping over.
Thick #9 wire or something similar works well to position them in the fire but don't wait around to long in case the bottle blows out instead of up. We just used a long chunk to drop them in and then stuck the other end in the ground to keep the whole wire from falling in the pit.
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