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The CAN-AM RC Tank Club is a group of remote control tank enthusiasts that meet together to run our tanks on a miniature battlefield and conduct simulated battles using Infrared combat systems.
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:13 pm
Anyone had any idea how I can build a mini flame thrower ? A spray and a light trigger ? I used to do that with a spray can when I was young and stupid.
Now that I am old and stupid, I wonder if it will work.
Smittyburger Private
Posts : 54 Join date : 2021-07-02
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:20 pm
Oh Boy!!!! …. Medic!!!!!
Jarlath Field Marshal
Posts : 2450 Join date : 2016-06-01 Age : 51 Location : Kitchener, ON
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:35 pm
Jarlath Field Marshal
Posts : 2450 Join date : 2016-06-01 Age : 51 Location : Kitchener, ON
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:36 pm
It is a little big currently... But I'm sure I can make one from a smaller setup LOL
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:43 pm
Thanks totally. Just a small butane. I can make this work. Just nobody gets in front of it.
Abteilung 506 Second Lieutenant
Posts : 609 Join date : 2021-03-15 Location : Toronto
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:08 pm
I could see there being less and less German soldier figures needing to be boxed up and put in the trailer after each battle day with that running around the field
Shoveler74 Second Lieutenant
Posts : 585 Join date : 2017-03-23 Age : 49 Location : Prineville, Oregon
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:26 pm
_____________________________________________ [b]You may be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper! - Death[/b]
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:04 pm
Actually the most difficult part is the ignitor, but if I keep a small flame going in the front then all you need is just actuation on a small butane refuel spray and Bob is your uncle.
I am seriously considering building this. Too bad the Churchill is not all metal. Would be safer that way.
Hammertime999999999 Captain
Posts : 809 Join date : 2017-01-09 Location : Waterloo ON
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:28 am
Time to bring marshmallows to battledays!
Hammertime999999999 Captain
Posts : 809 Join date : 2017-01-09 Location : Waterloo ON
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:05 am
MikeC wrote:
Actually the most difficult part is the ignitor, but if I keep a small flame going in the front then all you need is just actuation on a small butane refuel spray and Bob is your uncle.
I am seriously considering building this. Too bad the Churchill is not all metal. Would be safer that way.
There’s gotta be a better way than having a pilot light on all the time!
Disposable lighter and a servo to activate flow with another servo to create spark?
Abteilung 506 Second Lieutenant
Posts : 609 Join date : 2021-03-15 Location : Toronto
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:26 am
Mike is going to have to increase his tank budget to pay for replacing everybody’s melted hulls. Wish I knew how to produce an exploding rocket bomb for the Sturmtiger to keep up in the arms race
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:18 pm
So there is tons of option for mechanical ignators for BBQ and Fire pits and stuff. Wonder how they work. Where is Big Mike ? :-) Then there is electrical ones but they need 120V.......... If I have 120V on the tank I don't need a flame thrower. I can just zip the other tank.
Jarlath Field Marshal
Posts : 2450 Join date : 2016-06-01 Age : 51 Location : Kitchener, ON
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:13 pm
LOL... Do you really want me to find it for you and how to make it work? Cause I will
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:56 pm
I think I can use the ignitor in this video by shorting a battery with on/off and then the servo push of a butane fuel refill from the video you posted. It will be a small container to fill in the chassis.
The ignitor can be hidden under the metal shield like the real thing that I need to build
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:51 pm
This is what I used to do to kill flies and mosquitos when I was a kid.
Robert B. Marks Corporal
Posts : 157 Join date : 2021-01-01 Age : 47 Location : Kingston area
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:39 pm
I told my wife about this project, and she had an idea for a safe way to simulate a flame thrower. Assuming I'm passing this on correctly, what you do is have a smoke generator pushing a lot of smoke down the barrel, with a strong light in the barrel to light up the smoke.
No idea of how well it would work, but it seemed worth passing on...
Subject: Re: Churchill Crocodile Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:23 pm
Robert B. Marks wrote:
I told my wife about this project, and she had an idea for a safe way to simulate a flame thrower. Assuming I'm passing this on correctly, what you do is have a smoke generator pushing a lot of smoke down the barrel, with a strong light in the barrel to light up the smoke.
No idea of how well it would work, but it seemed worth passing on...
Good idea but not nearly enough. Here is a video of that I think she has in mind. Check out 15:40 onwards.