A fun thread: ways you've lighted a cigar (or whatever) when the lighter is empty and matches scarce. A friend handed me a handful of metal shavings he'd warmed up with a torch Switch heater: a heating element operating on the same principle as an electric stove element: that heats switches at the railroad and keeps them free of ice. One was red hot and lit a cigar in a pinch. Diesel "salamander" type shop heater. Hot coal from a camp fire. Sca
It's easy enough to light a cigar/cigarette off someone else's already lit one. MAPGAS torches work, as do oxy acetylene. Grill lighter (not the igniter, but a long handheld butane one). I once had an interesting chat with a fellow in the hospital who swore you could like a smoke by jumping a wall socket with strands of steel wool.... And also enlightened me on how when he was "detoxing" from alcohol in there, he stayed drunk for days off the bathroom hand sanitizer and it took the staff almost a week to catch on to how his BAC levels stayed elevated... I'll bet you could light a cigarette using a magnifying glass in the summer sun. I wonder if you're on the pit crew to a nitromethane fueled drag car if you could light a smoke off the headers right after a run?
Wat back in the day..... While on active duty with the Navy protecting what was still America ............ we would light our cigs off the exposed steam pipes in the engine/boiler rooms! There would always be a spot where the asbestos (yes, asbestos used for insulation) had worn off places of steam lines exposing the bare etal of the line. Just place the cig against the metal and proceed just as if there was a lighter at the end of the cig! The steam system usually ran somewhere around 1300-1320 lbs pressure with temps in the ballpark of 850f if I remember correctly. (It was a 1200 psi plant) Superheated steam, of course. Yes, one of the steam lines did finally burst at full pressure while underway. Bad time!
Agree...torches of varrying types....whilst sweating pipes, thawing almost frozen pipes. Like the steam pipe idea. Thats burly. Hot coals from a camp.fire....for sure. Sca
