How to make a little flasher
– How to make a little flasher -
This is very simple and provides entertainment if you have nothing
else to do. It takes
about an hour to cut up all the caps, unless you have
a few friends. You need the paper caps
that come on a roll. Not the plastic
ones. Then take a wide candle about 3\4 inch in diameter.
Take out the
wick so you have just the wax. Cut the wax so its about an inch tall. Then
make a hole in it about the width of a teenagers pinky finger and leave the
bottom about 3mm
thick. After you have done that and cut out the caps in
a circular form (make sure you do not
leave excess paper around the caps),
compact the caps in the wax cylinder(not pressing to
hard!). After you have
about half the caps in, place the wick in the cylinder. Then finish
packing
the caps in. The wick should be sticking out of the cylinder about 1\2
inch.
Now light it……..It should flash when the flame hits or heats up
the caps. The speed of the
flash depends on have compact the caps are.
If they are not packed in good they will more
likley burn than flash which
will cause a little mushroom cloud of smoke which I think is cool
to.
Have fun!!!!
——–Vortex