Life hacks have been gaining immense popularity lately. If you are interested in how to use a lighter, it is worth familiarizing yourself with some secrets.
How to light a candle
It turns out that you can light a candle in different ways. If the wick is hidden deep in the jar, simple methods will not help. You can do the following:
- Prepare the foil and roll it into a tube.
- We insert the workpiece into the hole from where the gas comes out.
- We release the gas from a lighter with a straw, and light it with another one that does not contain this element.
- We light a candle.
Note! The piece of foil must be long, and it must be rolled correctly.
This simple and convenient method will help you light any candle, even if the wick is securely hidden in a jar.
How to make a motorcycle from a lighter
Assembling a motorcycle from two lighters is a creative process. It is very important that the design is pleasing from an aesthetic point of view. It should be an indicator that you have not wasted a lot of time and effort on this process.
To make a motorcycle made from two lighters attractive and neat, you can use the following recommendations:
- Do not use cheap plastic lighters for work if you plan to use your creation as a gift.
- Work with glue carefully. It is very important in the process of creating a homemade bike to prevent the formation of glue smudges.
- Carefully follow all the steps of creating a motorcycle from two lighters.
- You need to use high-quality tools in your work.
Today there are a large number of original master classes that help people make something unique out of the most ordinary things.
What do you do with plastic lighters that don't work? Are you throwing it away? We offer you an interesting way to extend the life of two plastic Chinese lighters. In this article you will learn how to make motorcycles from lighters.
How to light a fire
If you run out of gas in your lighter at a picnic, but still need to light a fire, you can resort to some tricks. To do this, follow these steps:
- We take paper and rub it with a lighter.
- Silicon will appear on the sheet.
- Pour the resulting powder onto cotton wool, give a spark, and everything lights up.
This simple method allows you to get fire. The only thing you need to have with you is cotton wool. Otherwise, it will still be difficult to light a fire.
From matches
This is not quite a classic firecracker, but rather a fireworks that can be fun to set off during the holidays. For it you will need:
- 10 boxes of matches;
- several wine corks;
- cocktail straws;
- wire;
- awl;
- pliers.
If everything is ready, then you can proceed:
- First you need to clean all the sulfur from the matches. The most convenient way to do this is with a knife.
- Then grind it to a fine powder.
- Roll the paper into a tube, covering one side with tape.
- On the other side, add crushed sulfur and seal with a stopper.
- Wrap the firecracker with wire and then with electrical tape. You need to make a hole in the middle into which to thread the wick.
Before you make a homemade firecracker at home, you need to think about the igniter. The fact is that sulfur burns quickly, scattering in all directions.
A match and paper wick will not work here.
You can buy a special fuse cord at a pyrotechnics store, or you can make a similar one yourself:
- Take good yarn, preferably wool. Suitable threads for macrame.
- Dissolve a spoonful of salt and soda in 100 g of distilled water.
- Soak the thread for 12 hours and then remove it.
The wick will burn worse than a fuse cord, but at the same time it is safer.
Firecracker and ten matches.
Small fireworks
You can get fireworks using several items. To do this you need to do the following:
- We take the silicon out of the lighter and attach it to the spring.
- We heat the workpiece.
- We throw silicon on the ground and watch the fireworks.
Note! When working, you should follow safety precautions. You should not test how the device works at home.
From Berthollet salt and magnesium
How to make a powerful firecracker at home? You'll have to go to a hardware store and buy the following:
- matches;
- thin cardboard;
- magnesium;
- Berthollet's salt;
- potassium permanganate;
- threads
But we’ll tell you later how to make a firecracker from gunpowder based on magnesium and salt. First you need to grind the magnesium. You can buy it in the form of a magnesium anode at a hardware store. Use a velvet file to grind it into small shavings.
- Mix it with magnesium in a ratio of 1:2.
- Add sulfur from 5 matches to the mixture - this will be a “detonator”.
- Wrap cardboard around a pencil and tie it with thread. Close the cardboard cylinder on one side and pour in the mixture.
- Fold the other side and seal it as well.
- You need to make a hole in the center of the tube and fill in the bertoletka. It acts as an oxidizing agent.
- That's it, now you need to wrap the firecracker with matches. Light them up and throw them as far away as possible.
Please note that magnesium fire cannot be extinguished either by water or sand. Therefore, they need to be blown up where there are no flammable objects.
Glue gun
To make a small glue gun, you need to do the following:
- Take a clothespin and glue foil to it.
- Attach the workpiece to the lighter.
- Cut off the rod and insert it into the clothespin.
- Heat the glue using fire.
- The rod will begin to melt, let's start creating.
Craftswomen will be able to create without difficulty, creating stunning compositions. And most importantly, you can make a glue gun in a few minutes.
BLOCKADE, SCHOOLCHILDREN AND LIGHTERS
In global history, many sieges of cities and fortresses are known, where civilians also took refuge. But during the days of the terrible blockade, which lasted 900 days, schools were open and thousands of children were educated in them - history has never known such a thing.
The first bombings fell on Leningrad 70 years ago, first in September 1941, when the kids had just started going to school. In schools, there were huge basements that teachers equipped in their classrooms. They hung school boards on the walls. As air disturbance signals were heard on the radio, they fled to the basements.
Since there was no light, they resorted to an old method, which they knew about only from books - they burned splinters. The teacher met us with a torch at the entrance to the basement. We took our seats.
The class attendant now had the following duties: he prepared torches in advance and stood with a lit stick, illuminating the blackboard on which the teacher wrote problems and poems. It was difficult for students to write in the semi-darkness, so they learned their lessons by heart, often to the roar of explosions.” This is a common picture at the beginning of the siege of Leningrad.
During the bombing, children and toddlers, together with air defense fighters, were lifted onto the roofs of houses and schools to save them from incendiary bombs that German planes dropped in sheaves on Leningrad buildings. “When I first climbed onto the roof of my own house during the bombing, I saw a harsh and unforgettable sight,” recalled Yuri Vasilyevich Maretin, an orientalist scientist. – Searchlight beams walked across the sky.
It seemed that all the streets around were moving, and the houses were swaying from side to side. Claps of anti-aircraft guns. The fragments drum on the roofs. Each of the guys tried not to show how terrified he was.
We watched to see if the “lighter” would fall onto the roof, so that we could quickly put it out by putting it in a box with sand. Children lived in our house - the Ershov brothers, who saved our house from many incendiary bombs. Both brothers later died of starvation in 1942.”
Incendiary bombs did not explode like high-explosive bombs, but seemed to explode, scattering thermite charges around. They picked up special tongs like in a forge, asbestos mittens and buckets. And so the bomb had to be found and thrown into a bucket of sand with tongs until it exploded. And run to throw it into the yard. She wasn't so unsafe there. Don’t forget that the inside of the houses had wooden ceilings that burned like gunpowder. After 1942, the Germans began dropping fragmentation bombs along with incendiary bombs, so that there would be more casualties among the people extinguishing the bombs
“To cope with the German lighters, we acquired extraordinary dexterity,” recalled chemist Yuri Ivanovich Kolosov. – First, it was necessary to learn how to move quickly on a sloping, slippery roof. The incendiary bomb ignited instantly. Not a second could be missed. We held long tongs in our hands. When the incendiary bomb fell on the roof, it hissed and flared, thermite spray flying around. It was necessary not to get confused and throw the “lighter” down to the ground.”
Several dozen of them flew to each roof during the day. It was an affordable but very effective weapon, especially in the towns of wood and semi-wooden Russia. Murmansk, as a result of their implementation, was among the 15 most destroyed cities, although it received many other bombs - but the main destruction was from lighters.
The same fate was in store for Leningrad - why waste energy not destroying the walls - just burning out the wooden floors in the houses. But besieged Leningrad managed to create, in addition to its own discipline and endurance in the fight against lighters, a means based on phosphorus fertilizers that slowed down the spread of fire - which allowed the Leningraders on duty to stop many fires. Although in St. Petersburg more houses were also killed by lighters than by landmines. Our Heroic Country, our Heroic Kids who fought for their own hometown as best they could... #survival_blockade
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Elen Adikaeva
Unusual trick
If you want to surprise all your friends at a party, then don’t give up the idea. Moreover, it is so easy to do. First you need to light a candle, extinguish it, and bring it to the smoke. If you light a lighter at this time, the candle will light up from a distance.
This trick will surprise both children and adults. Although in reality everything is very simple.
There are a lot of life hacks, and each of them is used in everyday life. Don't be afraid to experiment; they will allow you to invent new and interesting ways to use your lighter.
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Mechanism of action of the piezoelectric element
The basis here is a block of a piezoelectric element, which sends a pressure force from the button to the piezoelectric element itself. The main component of a piezoelectric element is a piezoelectric crystal. This is a plate cut from a quartz crystal. Its function is to convert mechanical deformation into electrical voltage. The plate is very hard, can withstand significant bending and compression and produce high voltage.
When you gently press the crystal, the output voltage will be small, but it will be long-lasting. When you press the crystal with the same force, but quickly and instantly, the output voltage is stronger, but it will be instantaneous.
Therefore, this property of the crystal is used to create a spark in a piezo lighter. To change the impact force from smooth to sharp, the lighter has a mechanism: an elastic spring, which is located under the piezo lighter button. By pressing the button, the spring is also compressed. After pressing the button all the way, the spring moves back the lever on which it rests. After this, the spring sharply straightens. At the other end of the spring there is a metal hammer, which, when the spring opens, strikes the crystal with great speed. On the back of the crystal there is a metal lining that prevents the crystal from moving due to the movement of the hammer.
The result is an instant and strong impact on the crystal, which causes a spark.
Piezoelectric element from a lighter: what can be done? Craftsmen have learned to use it in repairing (more precisely, in “killing”) smartphones or mobile phones. A logical question immediately arises: why would an individual with a healthy nervous system break his smartphone? The situation may vary. Someone wants to return the phone under warranty because he no longer likes it. Someone just decided to make fun of their friend.
