I have a new project/I want to set my head on fire

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Wow that is pretty Kara!

Good man.

…bias, what’s that?

Edit: Realised this post contributed nothing, so wanted to help…

… I have heard of a product that exists that can be used to actually set things on fire without actually burning them and without putting heat into them. In essence, product is a liquid that only consumes itself in the flame, so it can be put in hair, or used as fire for a torch that one needs to put close to ones body etc…

Sadly I only have heard rumours of this, but if it does exist, it may be the answer.

Good man.

…bias, what’s that?

Edit: Realised this post contributed nothing, so wanted to help…

… I have heard of a product that exists that can be used to actually set things on fire without actually burning them and without putting heat into them. In essence, product is a liquid that only consumes itself in the flame, so it can be put in hair, or used as fire for a torch that one needs to put close to ones body etc…

Sadly I only have heard rumours of this, but if it does exist, it may be the answer.[/quote]

I know what your thinking of and saddly it probably wont work. I think your thinking a mix of isopropol alcohol and water that they use in film and stage production…this works well on SOME items (bits of cloth like curtains and some porus woods) but wont work on all items.

I recently found a book from 1914 which has instructions on how to fireproof things. Here is a couple of the formulas:

For light woven Fabrics:
Ammonium sulphate, 8 parts, by weight; ammonium carbonate, 2.5 parts; borax, 2; boracic acid, 3; starch, 2; or or dextrin 0.4; or gelatin, 0.4; water, 100. The fabric is to be saturated with the mixture, previously heated to 86F [30C]., and dried; it can then be calendered in the ordinary way. The cost is only 2 or 3 cents [back in 1914] for 16 yards (14.6m) or more of material.

For Clothing:
The following starch is recommended: Sodium tungstate, perfectly neutral, 30 parts; borax, 20; wheat or rice starch, 60. THe constituents are to be finely pulverized, sharply dried, and mixed, and the starch is used like any other. Articles stiffened with it, if set on fire, will not burst into flame, but only smolder.