Hacker News Reader

Comment by signed0 | Hacker News Reader

The BLUNDERBUSSness Class is by far the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsem22DkIjw

TL;DR: AXE body spray is super combustable!

I love how he takes great pains to emphasize that it's "reloadable" and "break action" but when he fires it it just explodes.

it's actually sitting right here beside my desk. completely functional. ;)

Wow, it definitely looked like the person holding it would have been maimed.

Yeah... it'd be slightly less than ideal.

Have you considered fashioning some stylish yet concealed body-armour under your outer clothing, possibly using bits of left-over belt and magazines?

Not quite Ned Kelly, but might help a little.

Strap magazines on your body and fasten with belts, like in The Wire when Omar when to jail or did you have something fancier in mind?

So I was wondering, did you ever watch the two Russian "Brat" movies?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk3Gey9SCWQ

I want to watch both of these, but my Russian language (and more importantly, slang) is so poor that I'm afraid I'd miss a lot of it :/

I didn't, but I'll definitely add them to the queue.

Umm. I'm not the only one wondering where the elemental Lithium came from? Right?

I believe some disposable batteries have elemental lithium foil in them (opposed to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries).

How do you take the batteries apart without crushing the foil, shorting them, and causing a fire?

Carefully. ;)

People cooking up shitty meth apparently do it (http://health.utah.gov/meth/html/ToxicologyofMeth/Lithium.ht...) but I don't know how they do it. They might be using tools that wouldn't be available in an airport, but I'm not so sure of that.

You can do it with a razor blade and a lot of patience, or as the author shows, using a small pipe cutter that you could easily get into the airport with a carry-on.

He shows this in the Fragguccino video (http://www.youtube.com/embed/TZ5a4ycwsig): by using a small pipe cutter (on a lithium AA battery). He notes that it can be done without the pipe cutter but would take more time.

Thanks - didn't catch that's what he was doing with the pipe cutter.

This kid sitting next to me in class did it....

I think it's the heating element in a thermos; "fraguccino" uses the same technique.

Fraguccino gets the lithium from a battery.

The propellants are butane, isobutane and propane. The same sort of gases you'd use as fuel for a portable gas stove.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com