[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense]
Flame throwers? For melting ice. Masons use them for working with block in the winter months up here all the time. Melting water, heating up sand, breaking blocks free from ice, etc. I have one in the garage for freeing up the snowblower when it freezes up.
Those guys in the Arctic would need them for getting shed doors open, melting ice for drinking water, emergency heat, and other stuff where the ice would otherwise win.
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Oh. Yeah. I have been enlightened. Embarassed, too, but mostly enlightened.
[QUOTE=kh.4]
I feel incredibly stupid saying it, but I never thought of that. Now just why did they have so many flame throwers? I just took them in my stride, you know, as you do.
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I can answer that. You have to remember, McReady and company were at a GOVERNMENT Antarctic installation. Those weren’t flamethrowers. Those were cigarette lighters engineered to government specifications.