101 Ways to MAKE FIRE - #11 Empty lighter and Earwax

How to make fire with an empty lighter. Although most people seem to be searching for "How to light a fire WITHOUT matches or a lighter", I thought I'd show you this one. Which obviously includes a lighter. But then again, ThatguynamedTorrey used a lighter too, and he claimed to be doing it with ONLY a potato. 1,5 million views for that little bit of misleading text. Hmmm.... I know it was a joke, but it really says something about YouTube's recommendation system (aka relevance engine) when a video with thousands of thumbs down can feature so prominently in search results and related videos. But I digress.... There are various ways to make fire with an empty lighter, I suppose. The simplest thing here might have been to build up a big enough pile of dust to get the paper of the Mad magazine to ignite. The inside pages are printed on newsprint, and after 20 years it has photolysed noticeably. That's a fancy word for saying it's gone yellow. A bit like pyrolysis really, except it's the ultraviolet rays from the sun, rather than heat, which have caused the chemical decomposition of the organic material. What it means is that it is easier to ignite. BUT... And I repeat, BUT (just because Jenzatron said she likes the talking, I'll be spewing words for all I'm worth now) the problem with lighters is that if the gas is all gone, there usually isn't much flint left either. With a new bic lighter, there would be more than enough flint to make up a nice big pile which would ignite ...



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