Re: [DL] Deadlands D20 -- Flamethrowers and MadScience[SHANE]

[Vang <kao@hamilton.net>]

Ah, sorry about the misunderstanding.  In any case, either gun sounds
like a cool project for a mad scientist.  :)

Derek Bass wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I was referring to another invention, the Sparkler Gun. It grinds a metal bar, creating a shower of metal sparks designed to scare normal folk or set very flammable items afire. It's supposed to be decidedly nonlethal. I try to think 'outside the gun', as it were, when it comes to designing weapons.
> 
> A modification involving RP would create a gun that spits thousands of flaming phosphorus particles at the target. Definitely lethal potential there.
> 
> It sounds like you're probably right about your method of using RP with a firearm; I just wasn't talking about firearms. Mea culpa. :)
> 
> Derek
> 
> >
> >
> > Derek Bass wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's some info I found on phosphorus:
> > >
> > > "White phosphorus is poisonous and can spontaneously ignite when it comes in contact with air. For this reason, white phosphorus must be stored under water and is usually used to produce phosphorus compounds. Red phosphorus is formed by heating white phosphorus to 250°C (482°F) or by exposing white phosphorus to sunlight. Red phosphorus is not poisonous and is not as dangerous as white phosphorus, although frictional heating is enough to change it back to white phosphorus."
> > >
> > > So, why not use the red phosphorus as 'ammo' for a weapon the subjects the rp to frictional heating as it leaves the weapon? It's not poisonous, doesn't automatically combust in air, and can be easily converted back to white phosphorus when it's time to fight. BTW, rp is used for safety matches, which is why you have to scratch them on something to light them.
> > >
> > > Hmmm... a 'sparkler gun' that grinds red phosphorus before ejecting it at high speed from the barrel... Eat flaming death, zomboids!
> >
> > Wouldn't the friction from the round traveling down the barrel, the
> > friction from the wind resistance and the impact friction of the bullet
> > striking its target be enough to change the RP back to WP?  If that is
> > the case, then a regular firearm would be able to use RP ammo.
> >
> > If a "striking surface" is need to trigger the RP-WP reaction, then
> > perhaps a special choke tube (Yeah, I know choke tubes are for shotguns,
> > but I envision something similar for rifles and pistols) could be added
> > to a firearm as a modification.
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