Be careful where you lay your propane lighter.

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Kenster

Kenster

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Jan 10, 2010
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You don't want to ever lay your lighter on top of your stove after you get your fire going. You especially don't want to leave it there once the stove top temp hits 500 or up. and You REALLY don't want to hear a loud bang and have plastic shrapnel flying across the room

Don't ask me how I know.
 
Aint the first person to do something stupid. I've been doin Hearth for 26 years and two years ago lit our dumpster on fire with stove ashes. We all have our idiot moments.
 
Glad nobody/nothing was hurt. I think about that every time I use one of those things to light a fire starter. Laid it down on the hearth the other day while adjusting splits and made it halfway across the room before I remembered.
 
Somewhat related... and offered mainly because there may be 'casual welders' among you, I was strongly 'advised' early in my welding class NOT to have a butane lighter in my pocket (esp.) when stick welding.

Explosives are where you find them.

Peter B.

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Can ask my Dad about forgetting a can of spray paint on the stove in his shop... Set it on there to warm it up.
 
NATE379 said:
Can ask my Dad about forgetting a can of spray paint on the stove in his shop... Set it on there to warm it up.
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OH MAN...
 
Bet that got your attention real fast huh? ;)
 
Pictures or it didn't happen :lol:
 
Good reminder about the lighter. I need to develope a routine about where I put the lighter immediately after lighting the stove. The way my brain works I could see that happening to me.

I once had a butane lighter spontaneously ignite while sitting on a counter near a table-top propane stove (maybe 18-24" away). I'd just stepped away from the stove & whoosh!! Huge fireball for about 1 second. On inspection I saw a pefectly round hole in the side of the lighter. It looked like the plastic melted right through somehow. Wierd.
 
Nate379- and anyone else- I'm guilty of that also. I hate to admit it, but I set a spray can inside of a dry blueing tank on a bitter cold night, just to warm it up. I forgot it was in there. I shut off the lathe, and I have no idea of the time span to this day, but I reached into the tank, gave the can 2-3 shakes, and..... ??- when my ears stopped ringing, and I could focus again, I was holding a small section of the top of the spray can. The kicker is- I had zero injuries, not a scratch- and I never found a single sliver of that can. It literally vaporized. That still kinda freaks me out.
 
Beetle-Kill said:
Nate379- and anyone else- I'm guilty of that also. I hate to admit it, but I set a spray can inside of a dry blueing tank on a bitter cold night, just to warm it up. I forgot it was in there. I shut off the lathe, and I have no idea of the time span to this day, but I reached into the tank, gave the can 2-3 shakes, and..... ??- when my ears stopped ringing, and I could focus again, I was holding a small section of the top of the spray can. The kicker is- I had zero injuries, not a scratch- and I never found a single sliver of that can. It literally vaporized. That still kinda freaks me out.
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Egad! That's WEIRD! Cheers!
 
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