When I was in the USAF and bored one night I filled a Styrofoam coffee cup with liquid propane and set it down outside our radar tower. I kept throwing matches at it till I got it burning and was very surprised when it just sat there burning like it was a cup of diesel or maybe gasoline and only burned the foam down to the level of the liquid. I got way back started running and kicked it on my way by. Big fireball then, no burns (Smile). I was only about 20 -21 then and could really run fast. As long as our radar was running there wasn't much to do on top of that mountain.
Not very, maybe in the 70's We had a big tank of propane in one of the radar towers that had a valve that you could get liquid out of. The filled cup was just bubbling slightly but not really boiling off very fast. @@doubleMinnovations
Oh nooo!!! How dare you think outside the damn box of constraints and actually melt some wax, haha... Geez, people are so damn crazy eh!?! Merry Christmas to you too!!! Have a great one and same for new year!
Some people are just quick to attack, without thinking too much; or what the see me doing they would never give a thought to because it looks terrible to them.
At around the 5 minute mark you show the solidified wax on the outer half of the brick. That is a great example of how insulative those clay bricks actually are.
With the holes in the brick left open, these air pockets stop about 2/3 of the heat from conducting through to the other side. These are some left over bricks from my hybrid fireplace build, and when those holes are filled, they make good thermo mass heat storage.
Hand sanitizer (which is actually quite similar to napalm, except using ethanol) can be used as a firestarter. Melted wax cannot. (You could make candles?)
