How To Make a Simple Flint Bomb

[poast-bortem!]

This can be an entertaining party trick, and all you need is two lighters.

First, take one lighter and remove the protective cover around the flame.

Hold the lighter in the palm of your hand as you remove the wheel, because from underneath it a spring and the flint will shoot out.

Throw away the broken lighter, but keep the spring and flint.

Take the spring and wrap it securely around the flint.

Now light the flint on fire until it's red hot and throw it against a hard surface.

It will explode in a bright flash, directly followed by a shower of sparks.

It's especially funny to do this when people aren't expecting it so you can watch them shit themselves in amazement.

Hope this guide brings you some lulz. :thumbsup:

[ObsidianZ]

I do this with all my lighters once they run out of fuel.

*ObZ

[The Green Arrow]

Sound cool....must try

[Vineman]

omg u guyz leik that sounds rly kewl. u guyz seem like u r awesum dudes, can u help me maek bombs?

[nuclearrabbit]

If you throw a lighter at the ground hard it'll make a loud pop and a cloud of butane. Now do the same thing you outlined above in this cloud of butane and you'll get an even cooler effect.
Didn't SN make mischmetal flash? Grind it under isoalcy.

[Method of Madness]

You can do this simple trick with the discarded lighter.

Bend a paper clip in a tight loop to hold down the gas, use a strip of duct tape to hold it upside down on a tree or something. Ignite butane with another lighter, walk away.

It will eventually explode and leave this fluffy stringy plastic shit everywhere


or if its the crack type of lighter just keep twisting it until it leaks by itself, ignite and walk away

[Vineman]

Misch metal flash is a deathwish, I can't even imagine how dangerous it would be to put into a salute.

Now, in reference to the original post, I can fairly safely say that you're an idiot. Thank you for bringing us your latest copy and paste job from a textfile, we really value your contribution! Without people like you, how could we ever hope to become a festering blemish upon the internet? I mean, without people like you we'd be horribly stuck with our knowledge and safety! I don't dare think about it any longer, for fear that I may lose myself to fright!

Be careful when you do stupid things like that, misch metal has been known to fracture while heating. If you get a red hot shard of metal in your eye you will not enjoy life.

EDIT: Eh, may as well go at it.

Ignite butane with another lighter, walk away.

It will eventually explode and leave this fluffy stringy plastic shit everywhere

I was going to get you for the "walk away" bit, but in context it's not that dangerous. However, dude what the hell are you thinking encouraging people to put exploding lighters around grass. In summer. In a summer with widespread drought.

Herp derp.

[poast-bortem!]

Settle down, Vineman.

I know it's a shitty parlor trick, and it's semi-dangerous.

I only posted it to possibly provide afew people here with some lulz.

You act as if this thread was an attempt at ZOKLET's claim to fame....

[Vineman]

Settle down, Vineman.

I know it's a shitty parlor trick, and it's semi-dangerous.

I only posted it to possibly provide afew people here with some lulz.

You act as if this thread was an attempt at ZOKLET's claim to fame....

No sir, I act as if ignorance exists. If someone stumbles upon the thread, reads it, assumes that "hey, its the internet! of course it works!", they can get seriously injured. You are not just among level headed individuals. We cater to a wide audience, be it the rebellious 13 year old or the 45 year old PGE member.

Lulz and pyrotechnics do not mix. They can coexist, but when you mix them, people get hurt. When people get hurt, the laws get tighter. When the laws get tighter, this hobby dies even more.

[poast-bortem!]

As for getting FLINT in my eye:

I've done, and seen, this procedure done countless times and there has never been an instant where the flint "fragmented," in somebody's hand.

It's especially unlikely if you go to the trouble to wrap the spring securely.

EDIT: Quit playing the role of mother-goose.

It seems proof enough that if we were afraid of danger then we wouldn't fuck with explosives.

Dumbass.

[Vineman]

It seems proof enough that if we were afraid of danger then we wouldn't fuck with explosives.

Dumbass.

The day you become unafraid of pyrotechnics is the day you hurt yourself. You have to operate with a sense of humility and not just brash "lol i can do whatever i want". Because in the wrong moment, this hobby can seriously maim or kill you. Yeah, I know, lol it'z just a lightar. But it sets a precedence.

Look, it boils down to this. If you feel up to the responsibility of posting hazardous information in public places, then you have to also take up the responsibility of recognizing its dangers.

[poast-bortem!]

I get your point.

Although tbh, I was brutally maimed when I was 16 by a pipebomb, so your point is something I learned the hard way, nearly 4 years ago.

EDIT: I might make a thread about it in the next couple weeks(pics included.)

I guess the only reason I was being a dick is because not only is it just a lighter, but also because you were so quick to jump on me with your own accusations.

Let's just agree to agree, because I can't deny that a precedence of safety is essential.

[Vineman]

Or you could just acknowledge that I won.

[poast-bortem!]

There's nothing to win. So we all lost.

[Vineman]

Let's just agree to agree, because I can't deny that a precedence of safety is essential.

There's nothing to win. So we all lost.

Due to the fact that you proposed the agreement, you can be viewed as having submitted to my flawless logic. This makes me the winner of our argument and/or discussion, and I would appreciate it if you would publicly state me the winrar.

[poast-bortem!]

You are grasping at straws.

[Vineman]

You are grasping at straws.

Nay, sir. I am simply requesting that you acknowledge my besting you in our academic row.

[poast-bortem!]

Request: DENIED.

[Method of Madness]

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I was going to get you for the "walk away" bit, but in context it's not that dangerous. However, dude what the hell are you thinking encouraging people to put exploding lighters around grass. In summer. In a summer with widespread drought.

Herp derp.

Alright....where to begin.

First off here the grass is always green and never have fire problems, sorry.

Second, yes I know most mistakes are the persons fault for being retarded. You don't HAVE to put it at grass height or HAVE to put it on a tree. If you wanna be so anal it could be put on a side of a brick on nonflammable concrete.

Third, just because someone says do something on the internet doesn't mean do it.


Fourth, the risk of fire is so much greater than the risk of it exploding and possibly shooting molten plastic/metal parts in your eye? You know since a simple flint piece might "fracture" but standing next to pressurized butane surrounding by molten plastic is not dangerous.

You sir need to huff raid

[poast-bortem!]

Vineman is to TAPIAOU as Metaphysicist was to BLTC.

[InspiredByMe]

We need mods...this thread should have been locked already.

[Flamethrowa]

Once I took apart one of those shitty lighters. At this point I was not quite in possession of knowledge of the architecture of these things, so i popped it open and a spring shot out. I thought there was supposed to be a flint, but I couldn't find it, so I gave up and went to school.

Later that day I had a very strange sensation in my head and I rubbed my eye and into my hand fell a flint covered in goop that had lodged itself in my tear duct.

Needless to say, that could have turned out far worse. I'm not sure what the point of this post was, except maybe that you can hurt yourself in stupid ways when doing things that aren't even dangerous. Also because I find it quite hilarious and I'm glad I still have my right eye.

[poast-bortem!]

Funny story.

[asilentbob]

Were you around for BB at &T? If you were you would know that this kind of retarded thread would have gotten locked right away. The mod probably wouldn't even read the post, just the title in this case.

[Flamethrowa]

oh wow....we don't have a mod at all?

[Dream of the iris]

oh wow....we don't have a mod at all?

Working on it.

[LastHand]

Working on it.

:gun_bandana:
I volunteered to mod this place the day it opened, and nothing has happened yet. I guess they want the inmates to run the asylum. Thus, we get people like this.

[mr.blunt]

I make these flint bombs all the time. If you heat it up, and then just drop the spring and everything into a glass bottle, cover the top, and shake it around it looks pretty fucking cool too.

I was showing this to my friend one time and we were in my room and planning on throwing it out the window onto the concrete out front. Once the flint was red hot, my friend was running to the window and dropped the fucking flint, which burned through my winter jacket and into my carpet. There's a hole nearly the size of a quarter through my coat now. :mad:

[asilentbob]

A strange thing happened one time when I was playing with the ferrocerium bar off one of those magnesium survival bars... I held it with pliers and starting heating up the end with a BBQ lighter... the bar started getting red hot... faster than I really though t it should have... so I took the lighter away and it kept getting hotter... So I dunked it in water.

I'm guessing it was some kind of intermetallic alloying reaction... BUT the metals are already alloyed... so it shouldn't happen. Confused the fuck out of me. I suppose the bar might have had some magnesium on it from the block... but I wouldn't think it would be enough to react... If you don't know what I mean by intermetallic reaction... Sorry... Most of the info on them is within scientific papers.

Theres some stuff on rec.pyrotechnics and a few other news groups though:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.pyrotechnics/browse_thread/thread/281fbed0981d0444/d1d55fd686111f92?lnk=gst&q=intermetallic#
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.pyrotechnics/browse_thread/thread/2c695dd597101a54/e87e01a3fbb17c3f?lnk=gst&q=intermetallic#e87e01a3fbb17c3f

Try searching "intermetallic" or something along the lines of alloy reaction.