zespectre
Flashlight Enthusiast
A close friend and I had been fooling around with some ideas for a "magic" campfire start and he came up with the notion of wrapping some high resistance wire around a few "lifeboat" matches and then running a hidden wire out to a battery and switch.
Well we all came over to this friend's house for BBQ last night and he pulls me aside and tells me he set the "starter" up in the BBQ pit and we should play a prank.
So the rest of the group arrives and he's standing out by the pit and he announces that he can't find any matches. Other friends are searching pockets and purses for matches or lighters and I step up (on cue) and say "Hey, my flashlight is really bright, maybe it'll work" and I shine it on the fire (HDS EDC 60 basic). Laughs all around as I'm staring furiously at the pile of charcoal and wood chips and of course nothing is happening.
"Oh", I say "I need to put it on HIGH" and I kick it up to the full 60 lumens... more laughs. Then my friend (unnoticed because all the attention is on me) flips the switch for our homemade ignitor.
Suddenly to the amazement of the crowd there is a small trickle of smoke from the pit, and then flames, and then the woodchips catch and the charcoal and VOILA, we have FIRE!!!
Oh LORDY you should have seen their FACES!!!!! :lolsign:
Well we all came over to this friend's house for BBQ last night and he pulls me aside and tells me he set the "starter" up in the BBQ pit and we should play a prank.
So the rest of the group arrives and he's standing out by the pit and he announces that he can't find any matches. Other friends are searching pockets and purses for matches or lighters and I step up (on cue) and say "Hey, my flashlight is really bright, maybe it'll work" and I shine it on the fire (HDS EDC 60 basic). Laughs all around as I'm staring furiously at the pile of charcoal and wood chips and of course nothing is happening.
"Oh", I say "I need to put it on HIGH" and I kick it up to the full 60 lumens... more laughs. Then my friend (unnoticed because all the attention is on me) flips the switch for our homemade ignitor.
Suddenly to the amazement of the crowd there is a small trickle of smoke from the pit, and then flames, and then the woodchips catch and the charcoal and VOILA, we have FIRE!!!
Oh LORDY you should have seen their FACES!!!!! :lolsign: