Clothes dryer vs. cigarette lighter

[johngross]

I guess not everybody checks their pockets for money or whatever before putting them in the wash.

Video at the link below .


https://wkdd.iheart.com/content/202...sion-when-lighter-is-mistakenly-put-in-dryer/

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiJiA6h1Ps0"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiJiA6h1Ps0[/ame]

 

[Rustyt1953]

We always check JR's britches for Gummy Worms on wash day.

 

[Onomea]

That was a Bic-type lighter? Day-um!

 

[Truckman]

Just you wait...Now some brain-dead YouTuber will conduct his own "experiments" to revive his flagging Mentos/Coke channel's viewcount......Ben

 

[johngross]

That was a Bic-type lighter? Day-um!

I'm not a smoker, but much like everything else, pocket lighters have come a long way. The article I linked above says.

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"The incident is being blamed on a cigarette lighter that was left in a clothing pocket and thrown in the laundry.

"Butane and lithium-Ion batteries can reportedly ignite under certain circumstances, making the man in the video incredibly lucky to be alive."

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Possibly one like in the video link below. Rechargeable battery I guess? Also, maybe a gas dryer which contributed to the explosion?


Amazing Power bank - YouTube

 

[dockmurgw]

Just you wait...Now some brain-dead YouTuber will conduct his own "experiments" to revive his flagging Mentos/Coke channel's viewcount......Ben

This is why the chicoms invented tic toc...they love to see how stupid Americans have become.  

 

[Bullet Bob]

I'd bet the owner of the laundromat isn't feeling very lucky.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Besides being bottle openers and semiautomatic matches there is this:

 

[ralph7]

I ain't buying it.
There isn't enough gas in a Bic lighter to do that kind of damage.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Shenanigans!

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUFZlYAcXI[/ame]

 

[lihpster]

I ain't buying it.
There isn't enough gas in a Bic lighter to do that kind of damage.

This. I've had Bics blow up on the dashboard on a hot sunny day. Still had all the windows and nary a mark on the dash. Something else going on.

 

[Dave.357]

I saw one blow up on a torch table.
Nothing like the video.
I do not no what happened but I do
Not think it was a lighter.

 

[Onomea]

You Bic skeptics oughta read post 9. (Bet ain't a Bic, boys.)

 

[Rustyt1953]

That lighter must have been the Binford 3000 with the optional drop tank.

 

[jeffrefrig]

When I worked in the coke plant every so often we had safety meetings and a short video was involved. It usually involved railway workers with a Bic lighter in the pants pocket. A welding or a burning hot piece of metal would end up going down into the pants pockets would supposedly blow some poor dude’s leg and associated body parts would get pretty messed up from the small explosion. Over at the dry cleaner Mrs. Refrigeration and the ladies always check pockets, mainly looking for stuff the people leave that may be something cool, etc., like money. Anything over $20 gets turned in to the owner. They haven’t had any lighters blow up…yet.
A guy that belonged to the Eagles I used to belong to was in demolition training in Nam. Those containers that were used for refilling the butane lighters would get wired to an exhaust manifold and they let the car drive itself down the field and in short time the hood would blow off the front of the car. But I never witnessed this happen.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Rusty’s Bic in post #10 may have some Charter Arms parts in it, being Shelton, Connecticut is their home digs.

 

[Rustyt1953]

If cigarette lighters are that dangerous then they would need a tax stamp.

 

[SMSgt]

If cigarette lighters are that dangerous then they would need a tax stamp.

That makes them safe? I know they want to tax climate change to death, but lighters?

 

[soFlaNative]

Wow, and I get mad when I find the Kleenex remains all on my just dried duds.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Wow, and I get mad when I find the Kleenex remains all on my just dried duds.

ChapStick.