Split Reaction » Pumpkin http://www.splitreaction.com Random Acts of Engineering Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:04:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Halloween 2009 http://www.splitreaction.com/halloween-2009-part-i/ http://www.splitreaction.com/halloween-2009-part-i/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:00:01 +0000 dye http://www.splitreaction.com/?p=1221 Pumpkin 2009 (resized)
This weekend I was carving pumpkins with my girlfriend. Pumpkin carving, a soothing time to bond, relax, and justify having power tools. Rather than hacking away at a pumpkin with a dinner blade, my trusty jigsaw and dremel did most of the cuts and an exacto knife detailed. It was much less effort and the pumpkins came out great.

Being me, I wasn’t settled with a mildly dangerous tea candle. I upgraded the wick by adding part of a regular candle. This made the pumpkin burn with a much more ominous glow (Harzard +1).

It was good, but not great. I went down to the shop and bore a hole into the back of the pumpkin. Add one spray can and that brought the pumpkin from seasonal fire hazard to double fisted spray can/fire extiguisher dangerous (Harzard +3 Safety +2).

In hind sight I should have bore the hole larger. Why? Well the fuel I’m spraying there tended to puddle up in the opening and set the pumpkin on fire, thankfully the pumpkin was fresh and still moist.

More photos after the break

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