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Post by ironhold on Dec 11, 2017 21:38:44 GMT
www.facebook.com/GreaterHalf/videos/2034344876784581/This one's making its way around Facebook right now. A guy wraps some uncooked bacon around the barrel of his assault rifle-esque weapon, then covers it in foil. After firing at least two magazine's worth of ammo, and a jump cut, the barrel's hot enough to start cooking the bacon. While hot guns are an issue due to firing, can a weapon of the type depicted really cook your breakfast?
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Post by the light works on Dec 12, 2017 6:23:44 GMT
www.facebook.com/GreaterHalf/videos/2034344876784581/This one's making its way around Facebook right now. A guy wraps some uncooked bacon around the barrel of his assault rifle-esque weapon, then covers it in foil. After firing at least two magazine's worth of ammo, and a jump cut, the barrel's hot enough to start cooking the bacon. While hot guns are an issue due to firing, can a weapon of the type depicted really cook your breakfast? I know machine gun barrels can heat up enough to require heavy gloves and tools to change the barrel out. |
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Post by silverdragon on Dec 12, 2017 10:39:56 GMT
Vickers water cooled machine gun. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_machine_gunThe thing used to heat up, so they installed a water cooler round the barrel, and after prolonged firing, they used to use the water to brew up... thats a myth that has been reliably confirmed. Also, in areas where there was a lack of water, if they didnt have enough spare drinking water to cool the thing, say in a desert campaign, you would hear the phrase "Pass the pi$$", also reliably confirmed by old soldiers. Making sure you got the right gun to make tea with?. Priceless. If that thing could boil water for tea, it could cook bacon, so I would say myth confirmed?. |
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Post by the light works on Dec 12, 2017 15:45:09 GMT
Vickers water cooled machine gun. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_machine_gunThe thing used to heat up, so they installed a water cooler round the barrel, and after prolonged firing, they used to use the water to brew up... thats a myth that has been reliably confirmed. Also, in areas where there was a lack of water, if they didnt have enough spare drinking water to cool the thing, say in a desert campaign, you would hear the phrase "Pass the pi$$", also reliably confirmed by old soldiers. Making sure you got the right gun to make tea with?. Priceless. If that thing could boil water for tea, it could cook bacon, so I would say myth confirmed?. the only difference between an aircraft .50 caliber machine gun and the M-2 (non aircraft) machine gun is the aircraft model has a higher cyclic rate. air cooling is more effective at a couple hundred miles per hour. (learned this from a guy who served in Baghdad who managed to lightfinger the parts to convert his turret gun - but he had to be conscientious to not fire long bursts. |
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Post by the light works on Dec 12, 2017 15:45:50 GMT
Vickers water cooled machine gun. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_machine_gunThe thing used to heat up, so they installed a water cooler round the barrel, and after prolonged firing, they used to use the water to brew up... thats a myth that has been reliably confirmed. Also, in areas where there was a lack of water, if they didnt have enough spare drinking water to cool the thing, say in a desert campaign, you would hear the phrase "Pass the pi$$", also reliably confirmed by old soldiers. Making sure you got the right gun to make tea with?. Priceless. If that thing could boil water for tea, it could cook bacon, so I would say myth confirmed?. the only difference between an aircraft .50 caliber machine gun and the M-2 (non aircraft) machine gun is the aircraft model has a higher cyclic rate. air cooling is more effective at a couple hundred miles per hour. (learned this from a guy who served in Baghdad who managed to lightfinger the parts to convert his turret gun - but he had to be conscientious to not fire long bursts. |
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