Spray Your Bugs Away (for Mature Audience, as usual!)

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There are many ways to get rid of the pests and one of them is the bug spray.



I guess there is more than one way to use a bug spray: you can either spray the bugs with poison or torch them! But torching them will probably make you lose your natural habitat too! So please don’t try what you see at home.

I have discovered the extreme flammability of the bug sprays a while back, when I was chasing an illusive cockroach. I was running after it and spraying, and it ran and hid inside the wall mount water heater. So I sprayed in there and right then the whole thing exploded in my face! But unfortunately even that couldn’t get rid of my unibrow!

That can of spray could make such large fire balls. Now a days, fortunately I noticed that although they say “Extremely Flammable” on the bug sprays, the new cans are hardly flammable. I believe what they did is a combination of two things:

  • They added something to the liquid that helps the liquid particles coming out of the can to stick together in a larger droplet.
  • They designed the nozzles to shoot the liquid without atomizing the liquid too much.

Both the above improvements have helped avoiding the liquid to mix with air well enough to sometimes even create a flame.



So how is it that my can flames that well? I actually had to find a can with the most flammable liquid and change its nozzle to something that sprays the smallest droplets, and even this doesn’t make fireballs my bug spray of 15 years ago would make. What a pity!

You can’t believe how much smoke I had to remove from my washroom after taping this video! The damn fire burns very inefficiently and makes lots of smoke. I was hoping that I could use it to weld, but even that didn’t work as the fire is not burning as well and focused as the actual gas welding equipment. The fire ball is so big that you can’t bring you hand near to solder the two pieces.

I can think of one use: if you are stuck in the middle of a frozen waste land and left with a match and a can of bug spray, maybe you can melt ice and heat up water with it to drink, or take a shower! Just don’t set yourselves on fire!



11 thoughts on “Spray Your Bugs Away (for Mature Audience, as usual!)”

  1. Hi there colleagues, how is everything, and what you wish for to say on the topic of this post, in my view its in fact amazing in support of me.

  4. Hi!

    I found a way to weld using deo cans.

    When they are about to get over, only the isobutane and other propellants are there… which are highly flammable.
    gives out flames like a gas stove!

  5. Your Videos are so funny! Just wish I could show them to my high school classes (without getting fired).

    • Thanks! Some teachers told me they are doing it already. I don’t think you need to worry much, unless by “Fired” you mean set things on fire…

  6. Hey Mehdi,

    I was thinking there might be a potential solution to your ant infestation using a projectile like perhaps a nail gun. Maybe if you could somehow obtain automatic firing with some kind of restriction on the trigger?

    Anyway, best of luck with the ants, and keep up the good work with the videos. And please, be careful.

    PS: if you’re looking for a good nail gun, I think this one is pretty decent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-uY7P3pe4

  7. Your videos are great. Great effort and courage and a bit craziness 🙂 hope to see more videos from you.

  8. the risk isn’t the flame going into the can, it’s BLEVE. also, burning poison = poisonous smoke. best try those experiments outside.

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