Fire lighting with a boiled sweet!

[digforacharm]

When demonstrating chemical fire lighting to groups am often asked why you'd have a bottle of glycerine with you, I explain that it's basically sugar and that got me thinking, what has lots of sugar and may be carried by your average joe....
Here's what can be done with a Cherry drop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwwU9CX4AWs

 

[steveih]

Thanks for the info going to definately give that a hi

 

[Chiseller]

thinking out of the box.....appreciated . cheers

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[Alan 13~7]

Now That's logical obvious & very clever I like that idea!

 

[Blundstoned Love]

That's amazing.

What about Haribos? I'm probably confusing glycerine & gelatin there.

 

[Night_Rose]

Amazing!

but where do you get potassium permangamate..(i cant even pronounce it never mind spell it!)

 

[mick91]

Not being health and safety police here but guys consider potassium nitrate over permangenate. Yeah you need a spark or lighter to ignite it but it's much much safer and more stable particularly with metals. Its also easier to get hold of, and burns hotter for longer. Permagenates form binary explosive mixtures with metals (particularly aluminium so don't do it in a mess tin) that are wildly unstable. Pluss ordering any large amount may well provoke a response. I believe you need an EPP (explosives precoursors and poisons) licence to buy it now too

Edit. You don't need an EPP, but you probably should IMO. Have a drift over to British amateur pyrotechnics forum and just ask people how they feel about it, you'll get a shock!

 

[Alan 13~7]

Amazing!

but where do you get potassium permangamate..(i cant even pronounce it never mind spell it!)

surprisingly Its not that difficult to get hold of readily available from eBay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_o...nate.TRS0&_nkw=potasium+permanginate&_sacat=0

or in ready made
KMnO4, & gliserol detail by Alan 13-7, on Flickr

(Approx) 4 Grams of KMn04 (A.K.A.Potassium permanganate) & 2ml of glycerol which doesn’t sound like a lot but it is enough powder (depending on the amount you use & the conditions) to start around 5 fires.

Available from MD Flashlights etc. Ltd

http://www.mdflashlightsetc.co.uk/i...urvival_shop/fire_lighting/0/0/?k=:14:430150:

 

[Night_Rose]

surprisingly Its not that difficult to get hold of readily available from eBay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_o...nate.TRS0&_nkw=potasium+permanginate&_sacat=0

or in ready made
KMnO4, & gliserol detail by Alan 13-7, on Flickr

(Approx) 4 Grams of KMn04 (A.K.A.Potassium permanganate) & 2ml of glycerol which doesn’t sound like a lot but it is enough powder (depending on the amount you use & the conditions) to start around 5 fires.

Available from MD Flashlights etc. Ltd

Thanks. (Though I was just being inquisitive< and wouldn't use the stuff to be honest)

I think I will stick to other methods. I'm still learning about the gear though

 

[Tommyd345]

Would it work without grinding up the sweet?

 

[bikething]

Would it work without grinding up the sweet?

I've got a vague recollection of a method that required a mixture of sugar and potassium permangamate which was either ground or bashed between 2 stones so I think the grinding may be part of the process....

I'll have a dig through my book collection later...

 

[Tommyd345]

Maybe it would just be slower? Because grinding it increases potential surface area... So if you just buried the sweet in a small pile, surely it would go up?

 

[mick91]

Maybe it would just be slower? Because grinding it increases potential surface area... So if you just buried the sweet in a small pile, surely it would go up?

Youd still need activation energy, it's pretty friction sensitive though

 

[superc0ntra]

Interesting video, thanks for sharing.
Going out this weekend so if I can get my hands on potassium permanganate I'll give it a try.