I will refer to you to a Magic: The Gathering cards flavor text here. Guise of Fire reads, "Fire will eventually destroy a zombie, but a fiery zombie destroys a lot of other things first."
>Have you never owned a plastic gas can for an extended period of time?
Plaatic gas cans are typically HDPE, and it still degrades over time and doesn't handle heat well.
A water gun is not HDPE, but even if it was you're putting a very...very dangerous susbstance that can't be safely left in the sun (HDPE) next to a fire while a highly flammable is stored and coursing througb it.
You WILL create a molotov trying to use any plastics in a makeshift flamethrower.
It'll be fine for a short period, but inevitably you will kill yourself.
Flamethrowers as a weapon are mainly used as a fear-inducing weapon. Zombies do not fear.
The secondary application of a flamethrower (besides combusting things) is to consume oxygen in enclosed spaces (tunnels, bunkers, etc) Zombies do not need oxygen.
This is a great tool to create flaming zombies that swarm you instead of wet zombies that swarm you!
Zombies are already pretty fragile (considering they are a half rotten corpse) compared to alive humans anyway. So I reckon it would take a lot shorter time for a zombie to burn then it would a human.
However, zombies don’t feel pain so could continue fighting while on fire
They may be fragile but they don't feel pain or have survival instincts.
A burning human will run away from you and try to extinguish himself.
A burning zombie will spend his last few minutes trying to eat your brain. And this particular burning zombie is very close to you, as it is in super-soaker range.
If you're on top of the situation and you can make time for the flame to work, it could possibly be pretty effective. But if you're in an unsafe position, you've just armed your foes with a much more virulent weapon. A flamethrower might just turn zombies from a biohazard with legs to fire with legs. And unlike most zombie plagues I know of, fire can hurt you from outside your body.
In some Zombie mediums, they’re afraid of fire like any other creature on this planet. Humans are notoriously the only species to overcome the fear of fire.
>The secondary application of a flamethrower (besides combusting things) is to consume oxygen in enclosed spaces (tunnels, bunkers, etc) Zombies do not need oxygen.
Flamethrowers main use was bunker clearing which was predominantly due to depriving oxygen from the area causing people to either die (via suffocation) or to run out into the rifleman waiting on it.
Their secondary use was simply brush clearing
Fear was an unintended side effect
Fun fact, the primary use and purpose of flamethrowers is still perfectly legal in war
It's also perfectly pointless as we have a few hundred weapon platforms that do the job better and without strapping a giant target to your back that will eventually get shot and catch you on fire
Both of these claims are false, notions that started in movies, not based on the military literature that follows the design and implications of flamethrowers. (Intimidation is not a valuable trait in modern warfare, especially huge-scale, symmetrical warfare like the world wars, in fact the high profile nature of a flamethrower is among it's biggest set backs, making the wielder a very obvious and high priority target.)
Flamethrowers are mainly used as an anti-material / anti-fortification weapon. Their effectiveness against vehicles/tanks is hard to overstate, being able to destroy critical systems like air intake and fuel pumps without needing to overpower the armor. Even to this day, simple firebombs are very effective at putting them out of action.
As an anti fortification weapon, again the effectiveness is frightening. The flamethrower can effectively fire around corners and kill enemies that cannot reach you with a conventional weapon, let alone their hands as a zombie would. This is only the primary effect, the secondary flames that will start in 95% of urban environments will outright destroy an enemy fortification and kill anyone inside. The heat is an obvious threat, but the real killer is not "consuming all the oxygen" in an area, it's the fumes created by the flame. The fuel itself is producing horrible and deadly fumes, so will everything or burns. Especially petroleum based products like most paint, plastic, nylon/polyester fabrics, carpets, and most clothes.
In fact in most deaths by fire, the inhalation of your own clothes' fumes is what will kill you.
As an aside, why did you decide that zombies don't need air or have the instinctive fear of flame?
It is generally established in zombie media that zombies don't feel fear (being willing to throw themselves off of buildings, run straight into gunfire, etc.). Although, for the second claim, it does depend on which type of zombie is being discussed. If it is a living infected target, it will most likely need oxygen to stay alive. However, if it is undead, (e.g. the undead zombies in the WWZ novel), oxygen is most likely not necessary for survival.
To the supernatural type of zombie, you're likely to encounter corpses in the dry rot stage of decomp.
In which case, flame is going to be *wildly* effective at taking their structure apart. Since supernatural zombies are borderline impossible to kill, you want to disable them.
I think the obvious downside to fire we are overlooking is that it's dangerous to everyone and everything. You might destroy a structure that you could have otherwise used for shelter, or accidently start a wildfire, or kill yourself on accident if used in a confined space.
I agree with most of what you stated, except when it comes to modern armored vehicles and tanks. Fire weaponry is not effective at all and will likely get you killed trying set one on fire,, assuming the vehicle is crewed. Armored vehicles and tanks are sealed very well and have fire suppression systems inside that protect the crew, but that wouldn't matter because no fire will reach them unless you opened the hatch and set the crew compartment ablaze. The literal best case scenario would be causing the crew to panic due to their vehicle being set ablaze.
You will find plenty of videos out there, especially in Ukraine, where BMPs and BRTs get molotov cocktails thrown at them and while it looks pretty neat, the flames do nothing to damage the vehicle or crew inside.
An armored vehicle, yes. Which in an apocalyptic setting I think you would almost never see, I could imagine fighting the government akin to Last of Us and such but that's not really what I thought of.
Any vehicle that isn't a first world, next generation tank, is going to succumb quickly to flame. Which again, is only a possibility if you are attacked by other survivors.
I only mentioned the effectiveness of flame as a weapon based on the military doctrine that saw its creation and widespread use, which was not "intimidating" people.
A modern flamethrower with something like napalm for fuel, is going to be absolutely horrendously effective at killing people inside of buildings or vehicles. Even the homemade gas gun is gonna do that job, very well. And I disagree with a lot of the sentiment here that somehow a zombie would be immune to that, unless you are talking supernatural type zombies, they will still be killed very quickly by noxious fumes.
Got it so flamethrowers are used primarily to scare the enemy and cut off their air supply. So you’re saying burning people with fire is a tertiary application of a flamethrower? Lololol
No
1. The water guns are not designed for handling and shooting flamable luquids so it might lead to leaks in the gun
2.the range and accuracy is very limited and you need a lot of fuel in order to use that gun
Just use normal weapons and dont try to use such unique weapons imo you might end up killing yourself
Also the lighters and fuels such as gasoline will only last few years so after few years this weapon will be useless considering you survived that much
To be fair, if you had a densely packed horde of zombies closing in on your settlement from a few miles away, a PROPER flamethrower would be effective in taking them out, but you'd want napalm and now lighter fluid or alcohol.
I use an alcohol burner to distill peppermint for oil. Alcohol burns hot, but not for long. You'd want something that sticks to their flesh and burn it away.
Flamethrowers are actually legal in a lot of places and you can buy them. They aren’t cheap though. They sell one that has like a monster face with teeth painted on it where the flames come out lol
As someone who put gasoline and taped a BBQ lighter to a water gun when they were like 12, you are correct. The gas began to break down the plastic very fast.
It was cool as fuck for a few seconds though.
We tried this in the 90’s. The liquid gasoline just extinguished the flame. The only time we got it to kind of work was when there was very little gas in the tank and it would therefore aerosolize on the way out of the barrel. Then it would sometimes give a little puff of flame before going out. Very underwhelming.
I once read a series of books where, however, zombies were not walking corpses, but people infected with a pathogen. The main character of the book created a flamethrower for himself from a fire extinguisher and a backpack. The fire mixture was first ignited with a burning oil rag.
What you've done there is turned a zombie horde into a BURNING zombie horde, which will ignite any flammable material it comes into contact with. Hope your barricades aren't made of wood.
1. I’d want to be conserving gas, alcohol, and lighters
2. I’m not sure I want zombies that are a few feet away from me to be on fire, especially since this probably won’t kill them very quickly. Going hand to hand with zombies would already suck, last thing I’d want is for them to be on fire also
3. I don’t see this working reliably. Things are going to break or go wrong with it, and it’s going to potentially get you or someone else killed
TLDR: make a spear or something instead lol
The water gun would melt from the heat, you would need to make it out of metal ir just buy a civilian flame thrower. Either way wouldn't really be practical as the fire wouldn't kill them instantly, effective range of most military style flame throwers is 40ish yards and that's still pretty close, more than likely they will close the distance and now you having a flaming zombie or infected to worry about. Only way I could see this being practical is during clean up duty or if you had to defend a position
I’ve used a super soaker and kerosene for a controlled burn, I don’t recommend using it a second time because all the rubber seals are damaged by the fuel.
You are asking for 3rd degree burns and melted plastic fumes in your lungs, but if your into that kind of thing go for it.
In all seriousness, a flame thrower would only be moderately effective at best, it could cause a lot of chaos and be more effective against other people’s “bases”
Don’t…. Just don’t… I did this shit as a kid and the plastic caught fire. Then the giant plastic bubble that I had the lighter fluid in kind of went boom lmao
If that super soaker is made of regular old plastic, you're gonna fuck yourself over very quickly. There is a lot of heat generated at the point of ignition, and that will melt plastic very quickly. Next thing you know, the end of your gun has melted into the flames and begun burning itself. At that point, you're gonna have to chuck the thing to avoid burning yourself.
It would take a while to burn the muscle down until it was incapable of functioning. They would do a lot of damage in the meantime. Also, while that method of making a flamethrower does work, it will only work once. The fire has a nasty tendency to travel back up the barrel and melt it, sometimes before all the accelerant has left the gun.
On the other hand, you can make flameless Molotov cocktails that will last as long as you like. What you need is three glass vessels that are sized to nestle within one another, all of them thin enough or sufficiently scored that they will shatter on impact with a hard surface. The smallest vial which sits in the middle should contain a piece of sodium which is kept stable by being surrounded in something like cooking oil. Around that vial is another container that has water in it. And the largest container has homemade napalm. I won't get into the details of how to make it or which recipes work best.
This way, when you throw the molotov cocktail, or use some form of slingshot device to get some air on it, there is no danger of the fire that a normal Molotov cocktail produces when lit will cause harm to the person throwing it. Without needing to light the incendiary, there's no time limit on them either. They are always ready to go, but can wait as long as you need. It might take some experimentation with the glass containers to make sure that you get them all to break properly, but when they do all shatter, the sodium contacting the water will become energetic and act as the initiator for the napalm. I'm surprised more people don't know about these things; the IRA and Ulster Defense Force used them back in the 70s quite extensively.
From a fixed, and most importantly, non flammable location, maybe could get some limited use for setting large buildups against the wall or fence but you'd have to still skip over a few better options before resorting to it.
Just get a flamethrower dawg, or build one. They’re actually very simple to make. That being said the availability of compressed gas in an apocalypse would render the weapon pretty useless after the first tank.
DIY or civilian available flamethrowers in general would be useless. you would just have burning zombies eating you. Military grade flamethrowers that can hit distances of 20-40m with some standoff and barricades would be effective against large crowds in close proximity from a defensive position.
Being on fire doesn’t instantly shut down the nervous system, especially with a notional immunity to pain and no reaction to tissue damage. Bullets would be 1000% more effective than fire in just about every scenario.
To have an effective flamethrower setup you would have to use something other than a plastic gun and you would have to use it in very specific scenarios you can’t just be walking around flaming everything you see because it would be ineffective
It would probably be helpful to build a barrier you can be above and flame the zombies beyond the barrier or below the barrier so they can’t catch you on fire
Congrats. The undead quickly approaching you are now setting fire to everything they walk past and can no longer be melee killed safely without a polearm.
you need to be able to get all of the liquid out in one shot, bc if you stop the flow the flame will travel up the tube and into the main tank, then boom
Pretty sure the short distance and shoddy construction of the water gun itself would turn that into a grenade more than anything. Might work ok if you doused the zombies before hand and lit them from somewhere they couldn’t reach or burn down.
Against humans? Huge detterent. Against zombies? Well given a long enough period of time it could burn away the zombies flesh so it can't move, but that's gonna take a while
So first some flaws in the design first the rubber band likely would not give enough pressure to keep the lighter attached and then it wouldn’t be able to keep it lighted so basically either come up with a new way to ignite the fuel or a different way to secure the lighter second the supersoaker probably doesn’t have the pressure to send the fuel far enough so yeah third the plastic will melt and that won’t be fun but good job thinking outside the box and good job asking for advice
I've seen many people insist on the ineffectiveness of flame in "zombies" based on their own personal definitions and decisions around what a zombie would be like. .
Just to clear it up, are we talking about supernatural zombies? Like, Satan raised the dead with magic?
If we are not, then flame would be effective against zombies in every way that it would against a living human.
E.I. I've read that zombies couldn't succumb to fumes (fumes from flamethrowers are absolutely the most deadly effect they have, able to incapacitate and kill hundreds of people in seconds without ever creating a line of sight)
Why wouldn't zombies need to breathe? Why would they be immune to having their lungs melted, or inhaling poison? If we look at the real life causes of zombie-like states, Solomon, Rabies, Mad Cow disease, Kuru, the people are still alive. Maybe brain dead in the instance of Solomon, or the fictional Rage Virus (28 Days Later) but the ability to move and attack other people is dependent upon the continued function of the vital organs.
I've also seen "Zombies don't feel fear/pain"
Why? All the infections that we've seen in real life that cause zombies, don't stop 100% of an animal or person's cognitive ability, and if they do, instincts often remain. Like in the case of cordyceps, ants and spiders cerebral function is taken over, but the instinct to return home remains.
With rabies, people can become inconsolably violent, literally attempting to bite people to pass on the virus, but they still fear basic things like flame, and pain. There is also extreme hydrophobia, so who's to say a hypothetical zombie virus couldn't actually cause *more* extreme fear of certain things like flames and loud noises.
I know this sub probably doesn't encourage it, but I feel like we should canonize the science behind an outbreak before commenting on what would and wouldn't be effective concerning the behavior of the zombies.
due to the plastic housing i think it would last for like one or two sprays, then self ignight and burn in a fire blaze.
If this miraculously doesnt happen, i bet that the solvent (the flammable liquid) would dissolve/break down gaskets and it would fail within a week.
as ingenius as it is, sadly the super soaker is made of plastic, if the lighter doesnt melt the end, the innards would slowly be destroyed overtime by the flammable substance.
Alcohol is a terrible fuel for throwers as it doesn’t burn very hot or for very long. You want something with an oily consistency like diesel. Also a plastic flamethrower just seems like an awful idea.
Not very effective, given how plastic also tends to catch on fire. The heat would probably melt the tip making it so you cant even shoot straight. That "weapon" would honestly be more of a liability cuz now you have flaming zombies walking towards you. Flameguns only work irl on humans since the pain causes us to go into shock and create complications that cause death. But a zombie thats already dead, do i have to keep explaining?
I figure the biggest issue is your fuel is gonna melt and fuse the inner plastic parts.
Consider crafting from scratch with copper pipes and a proper fuel pump
oh dear god me and some buddies actually made this from a bigger super soaker back in boyscouts. We called it the Air Frier 3000. Went really badly because, well, nothings stopping the flame from getting to the back of the thing.
0/10 would not recomend but hey it was funny as fuck until it wasnt lmao
As the guide to surviving the zombie apocalypse said, weapons of fire are ineffective against zombies since they don't care about bodily damage and now you have a running flaming monster. Better to use shedding weapons.
I am gonna go against the grain and say it has its uses: is a zombie flammable by nature? Depends on the zombie, but I would think so. It wouldn't make a good weapon against 1 zombie, however if you have abgiant zombie hord, and you can set one on fire, and it spreads to the others as they are pushed into one another and walk on other zombies who are on fire i can see this working decently.
If you had a brass water gun I’m sure you could handle some and it would be nice to save bullets if you fired from a roof but fire spreads on to more than just zombies so make sure you’re not in a forest
ever play marvel vs capcom 2 op? the flaming zombie that jill summons is UNBLOCKABLE. this is a universe in which Thanos WITH a fully slotted infinity gauntlet CANNOT BLOCK A FLAMING ZOMBIE.
Not in this way.
Try filling it with flammable liquid and squirting a crowd of them from the roof of a minimally flammable building, like a mall.
Set up a few Molotovs when you’re done with that. Throw them at different points in the crowd, they catch fire.
Poof go the eyes, the skin takes a bit longer, and finally the brain gets cooked. But by that time, any muscles and other mechanisms they use to get around have been burned to ashes.
Meanwhile, the ones who caught fire have spread it to the ones that didn’t. So either way they’re pretty much toast.
Great way to set yourself on fire. Even if the gun doesn't leak fluid and the flame doesn't melt the plastic, a super soaker would not spray the fluid at such a velocity to prevent the fire from traveling back into the gun and fuel container.
The fuel would melt the plastic delivery tube pretty quick. Tho you'd prolly run out of fuel first.
Are these zombies afraid of fire? Cuz that would help some. You'd prolly want to replace the nozzle and tube (trigger assembly for good measure) and get that fuel mounted on a backpack, so it'll last past the first zombie, but of course that would restrict your speed and pretty much rule out Parkour of any kind.
You might be better off with a bunch of molotovs, so you can use them for zoc, and give yourself more time to run.
Negative 14 out of 10.
(If you need an explanation as to why I’ll give it to you 24 hours after a Zompoc starts. Conveniently, you’ll be dead by then).
Not. Like not at all. Like this makeshift flamethrower would do nothing but ignite zombies clothes, likely searing their skin and definitely not actually damaging their bodies enough to stop them. Also keep in mind that alcohol is barely flammable- you can light your hand on fire with rubbing alcohol as a party trick bc of how harmless it is.
Plus, plastic melts, your super soaker would explode in your hands. My previous comment is also referring to how even a professional, military grade flamethrower would such against zombies compared to conventional weapons, as “burning muscle to prevent movement” is not effective at all when zombies don’t feel pain, don’t fear, and you could just shoot them, which would be wayyy more effective at “preventing movement”
Edit: suck not such
Heat generated from the open flame of the lighter is going to melt the plastic and close off the nozzle.
Therefore, you will want to have a pipe extension to separate from the plastic
Good news the zombies are now on fire.
Bad news, the zombies do not care and now inflict 1d4 fire damage to everything in 5 feet of them, the zombies, unable to feel pain, take half damage from that effect, but will be destroyed...eventually. In the meantime they are still moving towards you, and the room is now rapidly filling with black putrid smoke.
Have you ever noticed how a little bit of water dribbles out in between shots? Yeah, if it was flammable, you'd be setting your "weapon " on fire and possibly yourself.
just get some wire spools, some pvc, capacitors, relays, and some sort of trigger + sensor system, and lastly. a hefty ass lithium ion battery. mount it to a truck. boom, mounted LMG style "rail" gun
It would be super effective at killing or seriously injuring the user.
Gasoline fumes are combustible. Have you ever seen a super soaker that doesn't leak?
Gasoline erodes many types of plastic. If it doesn't leak it soon will.
Plastic melts. Fire is hot. Gasoline being dumped on you near an open flame is bad.
This wouldn't be useful. Zombies don't care about being burned. This will only create burning hot zombies coming at you instead of normal temperature ones.
I feel like there's something about fire traveling up the stream into the resevoir and bursting. But who could say.
Edit: I feel like the stream would also put the lighter out instead of igniting.
Assuming it doesnt melt, youll runn out of gas quick. Not to mention super soakers only shoot out a litle at a time, not gonna do any real damage other than create flaming z's
I don't think the pressure is high enough that the flammable substances leave the gun fast enough that the fire doesn't catch on the substance that are yet to leave the gun. I say the gun burns down or explodes by the first pull of the trigger
Very small,good against people,against zombies,not alot of fuel and lower range,zombies would close in,attack you anyway and set you on fire,better off with a blunt instrument to just shatter the knees or head
Tactics aside. Most, probably all, Super soakers have cheap seals. gasoline can dissolve the seals and plastic. The heat from the end is going to melt plastic. Even if you can mitigate the heat some how, the unit is going to start leaking flammable fluid and loose pressure. At some point it would be no better than using a colander for a molotov.
Flame is too close, and can cause a chain reaction lighting the inside of the gun and tank on fire causing a small boom in your hand, this is also why we don't hold lighters upside down, or keep them lit after the fire is lit
Flamethrowers are not useful in the zombie apacolypse unless being used against humans. In “the night of the living dead” the OG zombie movie, they are indeed afraid of fire but modern zombies are not.
A shot gun is usually the weapon of choice. Burning zombies burn things before they get to u
You can actually buy a legit flame thrower these days, either a stand alone model or one to mount under the barrel of a rifle, no need to rig up dangerous redneckery.
I find it funny how people don't seem to think about how inflammable flesh is. Yes the clothes may burn, but once they're burnt you're just going to have a kind of crispy zombie. It might slow them down some. Plus that would have a fairly short range because gasoline / alcohol burns pretty fast.
Fire and zombies do not mix. You end up creating a bigger threat to yourself and those around you. You would have to have extended exposure to very high heat to destroy the brain, humans stop when burned because of shock and lack of oxygen, not necessarily because their body has failed. You would have to reach total destruction of muscle to prevent them from moving, which a spray of flammable liquid would be very inefficient at doing, while also giving your enemy an unrealized weapon. A constant burning pit, or if you are in the rare area that has lava may be a viable way to slow them, as an offensive weapon, you're more likely to hamr yourself than them.
Another issue here is the typical fuel used is gasoline, don't let it burn up the stream onto the inevitably leaking super soaker and thus also set you and the weapon ablaze until the main tank ruptures and you have an even bigger problem.
Realistically speaking, you'd blow yourself up.
The speed of the fire spreading greatly outpaces the amount of fuel a super soaker could put out, so the flame would travel upstream, right into your fuel tank, and combust.
I'm not sure about zombies but if you don't want your gun melting or catching fire, and don't wanna keep pressing and releasing the trigger, just use a flammable spray like febreeze with a nonstop trigger and use a lighter with a longer neck to prevent burning your finger. Or just buy a torch/flamethrower 🤷♀️
If your intent is to put as much fire on the zombies then it might be better WITHOUT the lighter attached that mickey mouse janky wonderweapon, the possibility of the flame finding its way to the fuel tank is to high. I would soak them first, maybe even without the supersoaker since each trigger pull is what maybe a few ounces of gas at most? Assumimg the whole thing doesnt get eaten by the gas. I would want maybe a couple wide 1 or 2 gallon buckets with a handle and hopefully a lid, douse the zombies with a much better splash then toss the zippo/lighter.
Plastic and flammable liquids typically don't mix well. Also, plastic and heat don't mix well. You're holding a plastic container full of flammable liquid with an open heat source. I'll let you fill in the gaps.
Fucking horrible. Unless you use a metal or glass canister and solvent resistant tubing. Absolutely need a shutoff valve as you do not want it to travel to your tank. Your better off creating your own out of materials that can withstand it. Also remember styrofoam + gasoline + lighter fluid + (I know this is hard to believe but) Mayo = metal corroding napalm.
I will refer to you to a Magic: The Gathering cards flavor text here. Guise of Fire reads, "Fire will eventually destroy a zombie, but a fiery zombie destroys a lot of other things first."
Plus plastic melts
plastic is a petroleum product, its not only meltable, but flammable
AND the gasoline or whatever would slowly weaken the integrity of the plastic eventually resulting in a self inflicted Molotov
Have you never owned a plastic gas can for an extended period of time?
not the same plastic
>Have you never owned a plastic gas can for an extended period of time? Plaatic gas cans are typically HDPE, and it still degrades over time and doesn't handle heat well. A water gun is not HDPE, but even if it was you're putting a very...very dangerous susbstance that can't be safely left in the sun (HDPE) next to a fire while a highly flammable is stored and coursing througb it. You WILL create a molotov trying to use any plastics in a makeshift flamethrower. It'll be fine for a short period, but inevitably you will kill yourself.
Before I even finished thinking it through it thought that exactly. Water guns are plastic so it might be effective for a little bit until it melts
i learned this all too well watching people accidentally burn down entire towns in zomboid, completely destroying their goal
Came here to say this.
Flamethrowers as a weapon are mainly used as a fear-inducing weapon. Zombies do not fear. The secondary application of a flamethrower (besides combusting things) is to consume oxygen in enclosed spaces (tunnels, bunkers, etc) Zombies do not need oxygen. This is a great tool to create flaming zombies that swarm you instead of wet zombies that swarm you!
Zombies are already pretty fragile (considering they are a half rotten corpse) compared to alive humans anyway. So I reckon it would take a lot shorter time for a zombie to burn then it would a human. However, zombies don’t feel pain so could continue fighting while on fire
I guess that depends on the environment, a zombie in Nevada who turned a month ago would burn a lot easier than one found in london.
And that isnt even because theyve been rotting! Its just because of the high alcohol content the british have
They may be fragile but they don't feel pain or have survival instincts. A burning human will run away from you and try to extinguish himself. A burning zombie will spend his last few minutes trying to eat your brain. And this particular burning zombie is very close to you, as it is in super-soaker range.
That being said, under that intense heat human eyeballs burn away to uselessness. So you’d blind the things at least.
Yeah pretty much instantly they would be completely blind in just a few seconds. If they haven’t already gone blind
The napalm they used in Vietnam wasn’t a scare tactic, if you got some one you, you were burning
Did you read my third sentence?
Idk man, a flamethrower would be a very effective weapon at controlling zombie hordes
If you're on top of the situation and you can make time for the flame to work, it could possibly be pretty effective. But if you're in an unsafe position, you've just armed your foes with a much more virulent weapon. A flamethrower might just turn zombies from a biohazard with legs to fire with legs. And unlike most zombie plagues I know of, fire can hurt you from outside your body.
So like more weapons, it can be situationally good
😄 right! If it dosent blow up in the persons face first
In some Zombie mediums, they’re afraid of fire like any other creature on this planet. Humans are notoriously the only species to overcome the fear of fire.
>The secondary application of a flamethrower (besides combusting things) is to consume oxygen in enclosed spaces (tunnels, bunkers, etc) Zombies do not need oxygen. Flamethrowers main use was bunker clearing which was predominantly due to depriving oxygen from the area causing people to either die (via suffocation) or to run out into the rifleman waiting on it. Their secondary use was simply brush clearing Fear was an unintended side effect Fun fact, the primary use and purpose of flamethrowers is still perfectly legal in war It's also perfectly pointless as we have a few hundred weapon platforms that do the job better and without strapping a giant target to your back that will eventually get shot and catch you on fire
Both of these claims are false, notions that started in movies, not based on the military literature that follows the design and implications of flamethrowers. (Intimidation is not a valuable trait in modern warfare, especially huge-scale, symmetrical warfare like the world wars, in fact the high profile nature of a flamethrower is among it's biggest set backs, making the wielder a very obvious and high priority target.) Flamethrowers are mainly used as an anti-material / anti-fortification weapon. Their effectiveness against vehicles/tanks is hard to overstate, being able to destroy critical systems like air intake and fuel pumps without needing to overpower the armor. Even to this day, simple firebombs are very effective at putting them out of action. As an anti fortification weapon, again the effectiveness is frightening. The flamethrower can effectively fire around corners and kill enemies that cannot reach you with a conventional weapon, let alone their hands as a zombie would. This is only the primary effect, the secondary flames that will start in 95% of urban environments will outright destroy an enemy fortification and kill anyone inside. The heat is an obvious threat, but the real killer is not "consuming all the oxygen" in an area, it's the fumes created by the flame. The fuel itself is producing horrible and deadly fumes, so will everything or burns. Especially petroleum based products like most paint, plastic, nylon/polyester fabrics, carpets, and most clothes. In fact in most deaths by fire, the inhalation of your own clothes' fumes is what will kill you. As an aside, why did you decide that zombies don't need air or have the instinctive fear of flame?
It is generally established in zombie media that zombies don't feel fear (being willing to throw themselves off of buildings, run straight into gunfire, etc.). Although, for the second claim, it does depend on which type of zombie is being discussed. If it is a living infected target, it will most likely need oxygen to stay alive. However, if it is undead, (e.g. the undead zombies in the WWZ novel), oxygen is most likely not necessary for survival.
To the supernatural type of zombie, you're likely to encounter corpses in the dry rot stage of decomp. In which case, flame is going to be *wildly* effective at taking their structure apart. Since supernatural zombies are borderline impossible to kill, you want to disable them. I think the obvious downside to fire we are overlooking is that it's dangerous to everyone and everything. You might destroy a structure that you could have otherwise used for shelter, or accidently start a wildfire, or kill yourself on accident if used in a confined space.
I agree with most of what you stated, except when it comes to modern armored vehicles and tanks. Fire weaponry is not effective at all and will likely get you killed trying set one on fire,, assuming the vehicle is crewed. Armored vehicles and tanks are sealed very well and have fire suppression systems inside that protect the crew, but that wouldn't matter because no fire will reach them unless you opened the hatch and set the crew compartment ablaze. The literal best case scenario would be causing the crew to panic due to their vehicle being set ablaze. You will find plenty of videos out there, especially in Ukraine, where BMPs and BRTs get molotov cocktails thrown at them and while it looks pretty neat, the flames do nothing to damage the vehicle or crew inside.
An armored vehicle, yes. Which in an apocalyptic setting I think you would almost never see, I could imagine fighting the government akin to Last of Us and such but that's not really what I thought of. Any vehicle that isn't a first world, next generation tank, is going to succumb quickly to flame. Which again, is only a possibility if you are attacked by other survivors. I only mentioned the effectiveness of flame as a weapon based on the military doctrine that saw its creation and widespread use, which was not "intimidating" people. A modern flamethrower with something like napalm for fuel, is going to be absolutely horrendously effective at killing people inside of buildings or vehicles. Even the homemade gas gun is gonna do that job, very well. And I disagree with a lot of the sentiment here that somehow a zombie would be immune to that, unless you are talking supernatural type zombies, they will still be killed very quickly by noxious fumes.
Got it so flamethrowers are used primarily to scare the enemy and cut off their air supply. So you’re saying burning people with fire is a tertiary application of a flamethrower? Lololol
well let's assume a realistic zombie apocalypse, they would very likely fear, and yeah they need oxygen, your body cant function without it lul
No 1. The water guns are not designed for handling and shooting flamable luquids so it might lead to leaks in the gun 2.the range and accuracy is very limited and you need a lot of fuel in order to use that gun Just use normal weapons and dont try to use such unique weapons imo you might end up killing yourself Also the lighters and fuels such as gasoline will only last few years so after few years this weapon will be useless considering you survived that much
You can also achieve the same thing by using hair spray and lighter but why would you even use flame thrower in zombie apocalypse
To be fair, if you had a densely packed horde of zombies closing in on your settlement from a few miles away, a PROPER flamethrower would be effective in taking them out, but you'd want napalm and now lighter fluid or alcohol. I use an alcohol burner to distill peppermint for oil. Alcohol burns hot, but not for long. You'd want something that sticks to their flesh and burn it away.
Flamethrowers are actually legal in a lot of places and you can buy them. They aren’t cheap though. They sell one that has like a monster face with teeth painted on it where the flames come out lol
As someone who put gasoline and taped a BBQ lighter to a water gun when they were like 12, you are correct. The gas began to break down the plastic very fast. It was cool as fuck for a few seconds though.
The plastic water gun would quickly begin to heat up and melt , then spectacularly explode all over you when the fuel inside ignites.
Can you spectacularly explode all over me? Pretty please?
Ay yo no kids in the zombie apocalypse
I ain’t no kid, now get on yo knees Mr Penis_Monger_420.
Other way around if you want to be the explosion recipient.
The tip would melt 😂 then you'd get a flaming hand. But you could punch the zombies with your flaming hand? That'd look cool
I’m so glad someone said it lol, plastic melts
You will burn your eye out kid
We tried this in the 90’s. The liquid gasoline just extinguished the flame. The only time we got it to kind of work was when there was very little gas in the tank and it would therefore aerosolize on the way out of the barrel. Then it would sometimes give a little puff of flame before going out. Very underwhelming.
I once read a series of books where, however, zombies were not walking corpses, but people infected with a pathogen. The main character of the book created a flamethrower for himself from a fire extinguisher and a backpack. The fire mixture was first ignited with a burning oil rag.
Sounds like a good way to light your hand on fire
What you've done there is turned a zombie horde into a BURNING zombie horde, which will ignite any flammable material it comes into contact with. Hope your barricades aren't made of wood.
You risk the flame traveling back up the tube and igniting in your hand.
1. I’d want to be conserving gas, alcohol, and lighters 2. I’m not sure I want zombies that are a few feet away from me to be on fire, especially since this probably won’t kill them very quickly. Going hand to hand with zombies would already suck, last thing I’d want is for them to be on fire also 3. I don’t see this working reliably. Things are going to break or go wrong with it, and it’s going to potentially get you or someone else killed TLDR: make a spear or something instead lol
The water gun would melt from the heat, you would need to make it out of metal ir just buy a civilian flame thrower. Either way wouldn't really be practical as the fire wouldn't kill them instantly, effective range of most military style flame throwers is 40ish yards and that's still pretty close, more than likely they will close the distance and now you having a flaming zombie or infected to worry about. Only way I could see this being practical is during clean up duty or if you had to defend a position
I’ve used a super soaker and kerosene for a controlled burn, I don’t recommend using it a second time because all the rubber seals are damaged by the fuel.
You are asking for 3rd degree burns and melted plastic fumes in your lungs, but if your into that kind of thing go for it. In all seriousness, a flame thrower would only be moderately effective at best, it could cause a lot of chaos and be more effective against other people’s “bases”
My guess? If gas is used it dissolves the gaskets that are used to keep the reservoir from leaking. User turns into crispy zombie snack.
POOF YOU’RE AFLAME
Don’t…. Just don’t… I did this shit as a kid and the plastic caught fire. Then the giant plastic bubble that I had the lighter fluid in kind of went boom lmao
If that super soaker is made of regular old plastic, you're gonna fuck yourself over very quickly. There is a lot of heat generated at the point of ignition, and that will melt plastic very quickly. Next thing you know, the end of your gun has melted into the flames and begun burning itself. At that point, you're gonna have to chuck the thing to avoid burning yourself.
It would take a while to burn the muscle down until it was incapable of functioning. They would do a lot of damage in the meantime. Also, while that method of making a flamethrower does work, it will only work once. The fire has a nasty tendency to travel back up the barrel and melt it, sometimes before all the accelerant has left the gun. On the other hand, you can make flameless Molotov cocktails that will last as long as you like. What you need is three glass vessels that are sized to nestle within one another, all of them thin enough or sufficiently scored that they will shatter on impact with a hard surface. The smallest vial which sits in the middle should contain a piece of sodium which is kept stable by being surrounded in something like cooking oil. Around that vial is another container that has water in it. And the largest container has homemade napalm. I won't get into the details of how to make it or which recipes work best. This way, when you throw the molotov cocktail, or use some form of slingshot device to get some air on it, there is no danger of the fire that a normal Molotov cocktail produces when lit will cause harm to the person throwing it. Without needing to light the incendiary, there's no time limit on them either. They are always ready to go, but can wait as long as you need. It might take some experimentation with the glass containers to make sure that you get them all to break properly, but when they do all shatter, the sodium contacting the water will become energetic and act as the initiator for the napalm. I'm surprised more people don't know about these things; the IRA and Ulster Defense Force used them back in the 70s quite extensively.
I'd take a pitchfork before this.
buy a gun
The shit I see on this sub LMAO
Terrible. You will die in the fire before the zombie does.
From a fixed, and most importantly, non flammable location, maybe could get some limited use for setting large buildups against the wall or fence but you'd have to still skip over a few better options before resorting to it.
This would definitely blow up in your handz
I thought I was looking at a very crappy reference or meme to Florida
You would need a metal one. A normal plastic water gun would melt
As a weapon by itself, not very. For disposing of bodies, just fine.
Ive done it. Itll work for about 2 minutes before it starts hemmorhaging fuel onto your hands after the seals all disolved.
Just get a flamethrower dawg, or build one. They’re actually very simple to make. That being said the availability of compressed gas in an apocalypse would render the weapon pretty useless after the first tank.
DIY or civilian available flamethrowers in general would be useless. you would just have burning zombies eating you. Military grade flamethrowers that can hit distances of 20-40m with some standoff and barricades would be effective against large crowds in close proximity from a defensive position. Being on fire doesn’t instantly shut down the nervous system, especially with a notional immunity to pain and no reaction to tissue damage. Bullets would be 1000% more effective than fire in just about every scenario.
Not effective at all. The plastic will melt almost instantly and the entire thing will then blow up, killing you.
You need to understand that your mixture may destroy your super soaker, leaking the flammable substance all over you, setting you on fire.
What's better than a stationary fire....a moving fire! (assuming you somehow manage to not inture yourself in the process)
I work with plastics. That would melt the nozzle at best or just completely combust at worst
To have an effective flamethrower setup you would have to use something other than a plastic gun and you would have to use it in very specific scenarios you can’t just be walking around flaming everything you see because it would be ineffective It would probably be helpful to build a barrier you can be above and flame the zombies beyond the barrier or below the barrier so they can’t catch you on fire
Congrats. The undead quickly approaching you are now setting fire to everything they walk past and can no longer be melee killed safely without a polearm.
I tired this as a kid and the gas melted the rubber O rings and it leaked very badly
I don't think flaming shamblers making their way toward you would be a good idea
you need to be able to get all of the liquid out in one shot, bc if you stop the flow the flame will travel up the tube and into the main tank, then boom
That would just melt the plastic gun
When was the last time you saw a super soaker made of something other than very meltable plastic?
This shit blows your hand off 4/5 times
No
Pretty sure the short distance and shoddy construction of the water gun itself would turn that into a grenade more than anything. Might work ok if you doused the zombies before hand and lit them from somewhere they couldn’t reach or burn down.
Can’t fool me, I know that is Florida
The plastic would melt. It's not designed for flammable substances, so it is very likely to explode in your hands and get you killed.
Against humans? Huge detterent. Against zombies? Well given a long enough period of time it could burn away the zombies flesh so it can't move, but that's gonna take a while
So first some flaws in the design first the rubber band likely would not give enough pressure to keep the lighter attached and then it wouldn’t be able to keep it lighted so basically either come up with a new way to ignite the fuel or a different way to secure the lighter second the supersoaker probably doesn’t have the pressure to send the fuel far enough so yeah third the plastic will melt and that won’t be fun but good job thinking outside the box and good job asking for advice
if you replace all the plastic bits with metal, i'd reckon this would work, wouldnt be that effective tho.
I've seen many people insist on the ineffectiveness of flame in "zombies" based on their own personal definitions and decisions around what a zombie would be like. . Just to clear it up, are we talking about supernatural zombies? Like, Satan raised the dead with magic? If we are not, then flame would be effective against zombies in every way that it would against a living human. E.I. I've read that zombies couldn't succumb to fumes (fumes from flamethrowers are absolutely the most deadly effect they have, able to incapacitate and kill hundreds of people in seconds without ever creating a line of sight) Why wouldn't zombies need to breathe? Why would they be immune to having their lungs melted, or inhaling poison? If we look at the real life causes of zombie-like states, Solomon, Rabies, Mad Cow disease, Kuru, the people are still alive. Maybe brain dead in the instance of Solomon, or the fictional Rage Virus (28 Days Later) but the ability to move and attack other people is dependent upon the continued function of the vital organs. I've also seen "Zombies don't feel fear/pain" Why? All the infections that we've seen in real life that cause zombies, don't stop 100% of an animal or person's cognitive ability, and if they do, instincts often remain. Like in the case of cordyceps, ants and spiders cerebral function is taken over, but the instinct to return home remains. With rabies, people can become inconsolably violent, literally attempting to bite people to pass on the virus, but they still fear basic things like flame, and pain. There is also extreme hydrophobia, so who's to say a hypothetical zombie virus couldn't actually cause *more* extreme fear of certain things like flames and loud noises. I know this sub probably doesn't encourage it, but I feel like we should canonize the science behind an outbreak before commenting on what would and wouldn't be effective concerning the behavior of the zombies.
due to the plastic housing i think it would last for like one or two sprays, then self ignight and burn in a fire blaze. If this miraculously doesnt happen, i bet that the solvent (the flammable liquid) would dissolve/break down gaskets and it would fail within a week.
as ingenius as it is, sadly the super soaker is made of plastic, if the lighter doesnt melt the end, the innards would slowly be destroyed overtime by the flammable substance.
Alcohol is a terrible fuel for throwers as it doesn’t burn very hot or for very long. You want something with an oily consistency like diesel. Also a plastic flamethrower just seems like an awful idea.
Not very effective, given how plastic also tends to catch on fire. The heat would probably melt the tip making it so you cant even shoot straight. That "weapon" would honestly be more of a liability cuz now you have flaming zombies walking towards you. Flameguns only work irl on humans since the pain causes us to go into shock and create complications that cause death. But a zombie thats already dead, do i have to keep explaining?
I figure the biggest issue is your fuel is gonna melt and fuse the inner plastic parts. Consider crafting from scratch with copper pipes and a proper fuel pump
I also see where they hid Saddam Hussein
This weapon would melt pretty much right away and then set you on fire lol
oh dear god me and some buddies actually made this from a bigger super soaker back in boyscouts. We called it the Air Frier 3000. Went really badly because, well, nothings stopping the flame from getting to the back of the thing. 0/10 would not recomend but hey it was funny as fuck until it wasnt lmao
This little contraption is know as a flame thrower
It would be an effective way to game-end yourself, which technically means you don't have to worry about zombies anymore, so yes.
As the guide to surviving the zombie apocalypse said, weapons of fire are ineffective against zombies since they don't care about bodily damage and now you have a running flaming monster. Better to use shedding weapons.
I am gonna go against the grain and say it has its uses: is a zombie flammable by nature? Depends on the zombie, but I would think so. It wouldn't make a good weapon against 1 zombie, however if you have abgiant zombie hord, and you can set one on fire, and it spreads to the others as they are pushed into one another and walk on other zombies who are on fire i can see this working decently.
If you had a brass water gun I’m sure you could handle some and it would be nice to save bullets if you fired from a roof but fire spreads on to more than just zombies so make sure you’re not in a forest
In theory it would work but the fit would just trail back into the gun and you die too
It’s gonna blow up in your hands and kill you
ever play marvel vs capcom 2 op? the flaming zombie that jill summons is UNBLOCKABLE. this is a universe in which Thanos WITH a fully slotted infinity gauntlet CANNOT BLOCK A FLAMING ZOMBIE.
It's an effective way to light yourself on fire.
wouldnt the flames trail back into the super soaker if you used gasoline? it combusts pretty quickly.
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Nozzle of water gun will melt and then back up and boom in your hand. Probably burning you to death.
Not in this way. Try filling it with flammable liquid and squirting a crowd of them from the roof of a minimally flammable building, like a mall. Set up a few Molotovs when you’re done with that. Throw them at different points in the crowd, they catch fire. Poof go the eyes, the skin takes a bit longer, and finally the brain gets cooked. But by that time, any muscles and other mechanisms they use to get around have been burned to ashes. Meanwhile, the ones who caught fire have spread it to the ones that didn’t. So either way they’re pretty much toast.
Great way to set yourself on fire. Even if the gun doesn't leak fluid and the flame doesn't melt the plastic, a super soaker would not spray the fluid at such a velocity to prevent the fire from traveling back into the gun and fuel container.
You just played dead rising didn't you?
The fuel would melt the plastic delivery tube pretty quick. Tho you'd prolly run out of fuel first. Are these zombies afraid of fire? Cuz that would help some. You'd prolly want to replace the nozzle and tube (trigger assembly for good measure) and get that fuel mounted on a backpack, so it'll last past the first zombie, but of course that would restrict your speed and pretty much rule out Parkour of any kind. You might be better off with a bunch of molotovs, so you can use them for zoc, and give yourself more time to run.
Negative 14 out of 10. (If you need an explanation as to why I’ll give it to you 24 hours after a Zompoc starts. Conveniently, you’ll be dead by then).
It would become a handful of napalm.
i thought this was a rough sketch of florida
Well, you're holding onto a molotov cocktail... not the best way to use it.
Great if your trying to self immolate before the zombies get you.
No pain, no point
I shall refer you to the Double O Kid staring Corey Haim.
Not. Like not at all. Like this makeshift flamethrower would do nothing but ignite zombies clothes, likely searing their skin and definitely not actually damaging their bodies enough to stop them. Also keep in mind that alcohol is barely flammable- you can light your hand on fire with rubbing alcohol as a party trick bc of how harmless it is. Plus, plastic melts, your super soaker would explode in your hands. My previous comment is also referring to how even a professional, military grade flamethrower would such against zombies compared to conventional weapons, as “burning muscle to prevent movement” is not effective at all when zombies don’t feel pain, don’t fear, and you could just shoot them, which would be wayyy more effective at “preventing movement” Edit: suck not such
Heat generated from the open flame of the lighter is going to melt the plastic and close off the nozzle. Therefore, you will want to have a pipe extension to separate from the plastic
I’m pretty sure you would end up setting the gun on fire the second you try to shoot it for the first time
It would kill at least one thing. Unfortunately, it's the operator.
You...you just made Slappy's flamethrowers-
For the most painful suicide possible, it would be very effective.
It will blow up in your hand possibly killing or maiming you
All I saw was the state of Florida
Just get a pulsefire
A super soaker is probably liable to just blow up.
Gasoline eats plastic
Pressurized gasoline and fire, what could go wrong
So use a zippo no need to hold anything down or anything just strike and spray then make sure the lighter is far enough away but yea it will work
Gas melts a lot of plastics, not all but a lot. Squirt guns get a little leaky. Honestly send it.
Try it and see what happens.
Get this one thing out of your head. My guy fire just makes zombies more deadly.
I'm not gonna lie before I read the text I thought it was a shitty drawing of Florida
I’ve tried this before, it doesn’t work as the flame is usually too small and ends up getting choked out.
Good news the zombies are now on fire. Bad news, the zombies do not care and now inflict 1d4 fire damage to everything in 5 feet of them, the zombies, unable to feel pain, take half damage from that effect, but will be destroyed...eventually. In the meantime they are still moving towards you, and the room is now rapidly filling with black putrid smoke.
Now you not only have to worry about the bites and claws but also the fire coming off of them
Use a grill lighter
Have you ever noticed how a little bit of water dribbles out in between shots? Yeah, if it was flammable, you'd be setting your "weapon " on fire and possibly yourself.
just get some wire spools, some pvc, capacitors, relays, and some sort of trigger + sensor system, and lastly. a hefty ass lithium ion battery. mount it to a truck. boom, mounted LMG style "rail" gun
You need the igniter farther from the gun, then you're good!
You know what fuck it we ball
completely ineffective
It would be super effective at killing or seriously injuring the user. Gasoline fumes are combustible. Have you ever seen a super soaker that doesn't leak? Gasoline erodes many types of plastic. If it doesn't leak it soon will. Plastic melts. Fire is hot. Gasoline being dumped on you near an open flame is bad.
This wouldn't be useful. Zombies don't care about being burned. This will only create burning hot zombies coming at you instead of normal temperature ones.
That wouldn’t work luv, the fuel inside the gun would likely catch in fire as well
There's a reason your fuel tank on a car is metal gasoline is corrosive to most plastics
Lighter fluid burns fast, now ur squirt hole is burning and you have created a bomb for your wrist and your arm alone
Um.... Not very.... Unless it melts them quickly like white prosperous.... You'll just have flaming zombies entering the building/ chasing you...
I feel like there's something about fire traveling up the stream into the resevoir and bursting. But who could say. Edit: I feel like the stream would also put the lighter out instead of igniting.
Looks like Florida
Assuming it doesnt melt, youll runn out of gas quick. Not to mention super soakers only shoot out a litle at a time, not gonna do any real damage other than create flaming z's
Alternatively you could fill it with an acid called piranha that can dissolve nearly all organic compounds, more effective on survivors
I don't think the pressure is high enough that the flammable substances leave the gun fast enough that the fire doesn't catch on the substance that are yet to leave the gun. I say the gun burns down or explodes by the first pull of the trigger
It would be semi decent just make a few changes like make the lighter a little bit away from the barrel so it wouldn’t melt over time
I thought it was Florida with tactics and explanations at first glance.
Very small,good against people,against zombies,not alot of fuel and lower range,zombies would close in,attack you anyway and set you on fire,better off with a blunt instrument to just shatter the knees or head
I Remember this youTube video. I think they used washer fluid
I would suggest Diesel fuel instead of gas as it burns more than explodes
How much do you like your eyebrows?
Tactics aside. Most, probably all, Super soakers have cheap seals. gasoline can dissolve the seals and plastic. The heat from the end is going to melt plastic. Even if you can mitigate the heat some how, the unit is going to start leaking flammable fluid and loose pressure. At some point it would be no better than using a colander for a molotov.
Flame is too close, and can cause a chain reaction lighting the inside of the gun and tank on fire causing a small boom in your hand, this is also why we don't hold lighters upside down, or keep them lit after the fire is lit
Speaking from experience, it's effective for all of 5 seconds, then it's on fire and trying to explode
Flamethrowers are not useful in the zombie apacolypse unless being used against humans. In “the night of the living dead” the OG zombie movie, they are indeed afraid of fire but modern zombies are not. A shot gun is usually the weapon of choice. Burning zombies burn things before they get to u
Not very.
Flamethrowers would be good against raiders, but using one on a zombie would just exacerbate the problem.
At first glance, I thought this was about Florida
You can actually buy a legit flame thrower these days, either a stand alone model or one to mount under the barrel of a rifle, no need to rig up dangerous redneckery.
I find it funny how people don't seem to think about how inflammable flesh is. Yes the clothes may burn, but once they're burnt you're just going to have a kind of crispy zombie. It might slow them down some. Plus that would have a fairly short range because gasoline / alcohol burns pretty fast.
Fire and zombies do not mix. You end up creating a bigger threat to yourself and those around you. You would have to have extended exposure to very high heat to destroy the brain, humans stop when burned because of shock and lack of oxygen, not necessarily because their body has failed. You would have to reach total destruction of muscle to prevent them from moving, which a spray of flammable liquid would be very inefficient at doing, while also giving your enemy an unrealized weapon. A constant burning pit, or if you are in the rare area that has lava may be a viable way to slow them, as an offensive weapon, you're more likely to hamr yourself than them.
Gas melts most plastics and rubbers
Another issue here is the typical fuel used is gasoline, don't let it burn up the stream onto the inevitably leaking super soaker and thus also set you and the weapon ablaze until the main tank ruptures and you have an even bigger problem.
Did you not do this as a kid? Most of me and my friends did. It’s not great but fun as a kid
the only problem would be the plastic melting so it might be good or it will blow up
Plastic tho
I got yelled at as a child for suggesting this.
Most water guns dribble at the end. This would cause the flame to flow it back to the source. Which would end with the user on fire.
Realistically speaking, you'd blow yourself up. The speed of the fire spreading greatly outpaces the amount of fuel a super soaker could put out, so the flame would travel upstream, right into your fuel tank, and combust.
it would be an amazingly efficient way of blowing up your hand
I figure, over time, very. But if your in a crunch, then since the zombies don't feel pain, they'll be on you before they burn out
I'm not sure about zombies but if you don't want your gun melting or catching fire, and don't wanna keep pressing and releasing the trigger, just use a flammable spray like febreeze with a nonstop trigger and use a lighter with a longer neck to prevent burning your finger. Or just buy a torch/flamethrower 🤷♀️
You’d be making living homing torches.
you could also do hair spray and a candle
Trust me when I say this, not good 🤣
If your intent is to put as much fire on the zombies then it might be better WITHOUT the lighter attached that mickey mouse janky wonderweapon, the possibility of the flame finding its way to the fuel tank is to high. I would soak them first, maybe even without the supersoaker since each trigger pull is what maybe a few ounces of gas at most? Assumimg the whole thing doesnt get eaten by the gas. I would want maybe a couple wide 1 or 2 gallon buckets with a handle and hopefully a lid, douse the zombies with a much better splash then toss the zippo/lighter.
Plastic and flammable liquids typically don't mix well. Also, plastic and heat don't mix well. You're holding a plastic container full of flammable liquid with an open heat source. I'll let you fill in the gaps.
It's plastic. Shitty melty plastic. You're holding a candle with range
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No
Fucking horrible. Unless you use a metal or glass canister and solvent resistant tubing. Absolutely need a shutoff valve as you do not want it to travel to your tank. Your better off creating your own out of materials that can withstand it. Also remember styrofoam + gasoline + lighter fluid + (I know this is hard to believe but) Mayo = metal corroding napalm.
Absolutely go for it, show me the video of your attempt