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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 09:44 AM
I've never actually used a soda can for this, but I've started fires using shiny surfaces to focus sunlight. And if you use a mixture of peanut-butter and DEET repellant instead of dry twigs, the fire won't go out if it gets a bit wet. |
X
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 09:49 AM
I got to do this one!! Firrrrre, Fire, Fire... |
Maegan
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 09:50 AM
...You could use anything, as long as it's abrasive I guess. They said it would just take minutes...but I doubt that depending on how far you are from the sun. |
X
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 09:54 AM
I do use a pepsi can as a stove though, comes in sooooo handy and it works like a charm. I do it everytime I use my smoker.
All you have to do is Cut a Soda can in half. Put a piece of paper or something flammable in it. Then, poor alcohol in the can...don't have to fill it up all the way. This little stove burns for a while and will get a fire going. Just stack up some wood or something over it.....P.S. If you are a drinker going camping, Everclear works just as well. |
Winona
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 10:00 AM
I just carry a cute little kit a friend of mine made me... In a tin of Altoids, he burnt some cotton cloth to charcoal it, added some flint and a loop of steel and some hemp rope. I love that kit, I can get a fire going in seconds & the kit is so small it is easy to carry. |
X
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 10:22 AM
Hey, thats a good idea...Think I will make something like that. |
Winona
in USA
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 10:29 AM
S: just make sure you charcoal the cotton squares... it makes a perfect spark catch, which will in turn catch the (untwisted) bit of hemp rope. Just make sure you have your twigs ready to catch off those. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 10:34 AM
I just carry matches. |
Maegan
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 10:36 AM
Yeah, I carry a little fire kit too. It's called matches. They come in a little box & I just strike one on the side. If I leave it at home, there's always the cigarette lighter of my car. |
andychrist
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 10:43 AM
Great minds think alike. |
Winona
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 10:46 AM
flint is more fun. 😊 |
Maegan
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 11:02 AM
Once, in 8th grade Biology, I was moved to the rearmost corner of the room...furthest from the teacher's desk. I was quiet, so she thought that translated to "good". One day I took a lighter (no, I didn't smoke, but they were handy to have), and burnt a piece of paper, it was just a little larger than a 3x5 card...I lit it, and it went up and was gone in seconds. I stamped the ashes into the carpet. The (stupid) girl next to me raised her hand and said she smelled something burning. The boys sitting near me KNEW what had happened, but she didn't. The teacher came over, smelled around and looked at me. She never said if she knew it was me or not. I excused myself to go to the bathroom...but instead tossed the lighter into my locker & got all trace of the ashes off my shoe. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 11:07 AM
8th graders are dumb. 😉 When I was in 8th, one day we were in art class using rubber cement. I used half the class making a ball that was about 1.5-2" in diameter, then popped it into my teacher's coffee while he was out of the room. (he did drink it when he came back...somehow??)
Then I set him on fire.
(Left for keeping on topic's sake, one of the above statements is untrue.) |
Maegan
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 11:17 AM
Lots of things catch fire. |
LaMa
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 04:09 PM
Winona baby; light my fire.... |
Winona
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 04:28 PM
(works feverishly till she had a fire lit on the ground)
Voila! Your fire.
(Now I've got the Doors running through my head...) |
Charybdis
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 07:14 PM
What are these "Doors" you speak of? The definitive version was perfomed only by...
*drum roll*
Jose Feliciano
Thank you, thank you. You have been educated.
😛 |
Smerk
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 | 07:26 PM
Talking of fires, I think I can smell one now! 🐛
If I don't post again, you'll know that our building has burnt down...hang on, the fire alarms aren't going, so the smoke must be coming in through the air conditioning. 😠 |
Nettie
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 05:58 AM
It could have been the bushfire down the road from me Smerk! I had been thinking summer was far enough gone to end the bush fire season but unfortunately it wasn't. I had trouble reading my book yesterday coz the bloody water bombers were flying so low to my house. Damn them for trying to put out the fire in such a noisy manner! |
Accipiter
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 06:11 AM
Find any dead divers in the trees after the water-bombers left, Nettie? |
Aphra
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 07:05 AM
When I was about 16, my friend and I decided that it'd be a good experiment to see what happens to watermelon when you put it in the microwave. We figured it would boil or sizzle or something. Nope...
Did you know that watermelon catches fire when you put it in the microwave? Mostly just the green part (rhind?). It turns completly black and catches on fire. Warning: it smells. We totally stunk up the church (yeah...we did it in the church microwave)... |
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 06:04 PM
Somebody once did a test on Pop-Tarts to see just how safe they were. They fixed up a toaster so it wouldn't pop back up automatically, then they put in various types of Pop-Tart and left them in to see how long it would take until they burned. I don't remember what all the results were, but apparently strawberry Pop-Tarts create some very impressive pyrotechnics. |
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 06:05 PM
Hmm, this is turning into a nice little website for pyromaniacs, isn't it? |
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 | 07:20 PM
hehe fire hehe |
Maegan
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 | 09:28 AM
I caught the toaster on fire once. My step-mom had to replace her microwave after I sent it up in flames...Terrible of me to do. |
Dany
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 | 11:03 AM
I heard that if you put Draino in a gas tank the car will blow up after driving a mile. |
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 | 04:52 PM
never heard that one but i do know that if you light gas it will burn |
Winona
in USA
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 | 05:27 PM
Nah, everyone knows gas isn't flammable.
That's by it works so well in an INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE. |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 | 10:25 PM
Gas is flammable... and so are idiots! Lighting them up is one of my favorite pastimes! 🙄
Idiots not gasoline! although I do enjoy driving! |
Dany
in Waco, Texas
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 | 09:49 AM
I heard the Draino in the gas tank from an English teacher. |
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 | 01:14 PM
is it possible to start a fire with a candy bar and some coke soda? If so how? |
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 | 01:23 PM
What is the easiest way to start a fire with just common objects found in nature? |
Winona
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 | 02:14 PM
adam, click on the link to find out how.
if you're look for *only* things easily found in nature, you're probably stuck with rubbing sticks. otherwise try bringing a magnifying glass or flint & steel. |
Winona
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 | 02:24 PM
Or, always travel with smokers. 😉 |
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 | 09:53 PM
Hey Peep, just a little fyi, Liquid Draino and Aluminium Foil creates Hydrogen Gas! Woohoo Fire...stuff foil in drink bottle, pour in draino, and cap with a ballon, introduce to fire and a nice fireball you will have. |
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 | 01:21 PM
interested in anyone knowing about the draino in a gas tank, or do you think a chocolate candy would do something as well |
