Real-life tragedies actually happened around you.

Undoubtedly, it’s exciting and hilarious to see the spray can flamethrower in the movie Point Break. But don’t even think about trying a WD40 flamethrower at home. You are gonna regret a lifetime of following this horrible curiosity. It’s not a sweet experience to see aerosol can explosion in hand.

You were lucky if that toy did not explode.

But stop since and check out the aerosol can fire accidents on other poor guys.

Annoyed by a large number of cockroaches, in March 2018, a man from Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia decided to burn those filthy bugs off by making an aerosol spray flamethrower at home. It did not go as he expected, and the aerosol can explode at his kitchen.

His house was damaged and unfit to live in, and he was also seriously injured. This poor guy ended up in the hospital with cuts on his head and hands and had to get stitches.

This many risked his life in such a dangerous stunt and he was lucky to be alive.

This Queensland guy was lucky, but not everyone, including you.

Kyle and a friend were playing a Sure aerosol with a cigarette lighter to mimic the flamethrower. But the accident happened at that time. The deodorant aerosol spray exploded and Kyle was almost turning into a fireball. This 14-year-old schoolboy suffered serious burning injury.

Obviously, it is a dangerous prank and game. You should be afraid of it.

Then why it can cause so serious damage?

All have to go back to its origin: how is aerosol spray made? And what are aerosols?

Why Aerosol Can Flame Thrower Is Dangerous?

We can see many aerosol products in the market, like WD40, air freshener, body deodorant, insecticide spray, spray paint, ect. All these regular aerosols contain the following parts.

• – Container
• – Liquid formula
• – Propellant gas
• – Actuator and cap

The container is usually tinplate or aluminum. The liquid formula is mainly the chemical liquid, even with alcohol and fragrance. The propellant gas applied in these aerosol sprays is LPG(butane and propane).

And LPG is flammable and explosive.

Besides, LPG is high-pressure gas. The total pressure inside the aerosol container is about 6-8 bar. You can imagine how bad it will be if you flame it on fire.

The above aerosol sprays are produced by aerosol can filling machine. All the chemical liquid and propellant gas are sealed in the container. It’s like a bomb.

You may also notice that there is a warning on the container surface to let you stay away from fire and high temperature.

As we can see, the key is the propellant gas. Actually, it’d be safe if we fill non-flammable propellant gas.

And it is another different aerosol package, the bag on valve(bov) package.

Unlike the regular package containing liquid and propellant gas in the same space, the bov package contains the liquid in the bag and the gas in the container and outside of the bag. And the propellant gas for bag on valve package is usually Nitrogen.