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[mrSHEiK124]

Yesterday afternoon, while enjoying a cancer stick on my porch, my mind wandered and I wondered what would happen if I forgot a lighter in my pocket and it went in the wash, and subsequently, the drier. Would the compressed gas expand under heat, causing the lighter to rupture and starting a fire in the drier, surrounded by more flammable material, and burn my place the fuck down?

Today, I did my laundry. I forgot my blue Bic lighter in my pocket. My apartment is not on fire. Mad props Bic, mad props.

 

[Goosemaster]

how hot is it inside a dryer?

probably not hot enough to overpower the small case's rigid plastic cosntruction.

 

[AndeeG]

I'm pretty sure they did this on mythbuster. nothing happened.

 

[grohl]

Good question but obviously the lighter makers have that in mind...what do you think those dryer temps get up to? 160F? more?

 

[Evadman]

not hot enough. You need something like 200 before the plastic will start losing its strength.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Evadman
not hot enough. You need something like 200 before the plastic will start losing its strength.

Suuuure, that's what they said about the steel in the WTC too.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Evadman
not hot enough. You need something like 200 before the plastic will start losing its strength.

Suuuure, that's what they said about the steel in the WTC too.

Is it PC to :laugh:?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Evadman
not hot enough. You need something like 200 before the plastic will start losing its strength.

Suuuure, that's what they said about the steel in the WTC too.

Is it PC to :laugh:?

too soon...

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Evadman
not hot enough. You need something like 200 before the plastic will start losing its strength.

Suuuure, that's what they said about the steel in the WTC too.

Is it PC to :laugh:?

too soon...

I thought so too. I'm still amazed this thing held up in the drier.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Evadman
not hot enough. You need something like 200 before the plastic will start losing its strength.

Suuuure, that's what they said about the steel in the WTC too.

Is it PC to :laugh:?

too soon...

I thought so too. I'm still amazed this thing held up in the drier.

Put it in the oven jsut to make sure your dryer isn't malfunctioning...

 

[Parasitic]

With flammable liquids, there is a "lower flammability limit" and an "upper flammability limit", so even if the plastics broke and some of the lighter fluid began to vaporize into the hot air it doesn't necessarily mean that it'll catch on fire, especially when you have only 1 lighter with maybe 1 fluid oz of fulid in a several gallons capacity of air in the dryer.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Does the lighter still work after going through the washer and drier?

 

[buck]

You should stop smoking dirts, they are bad for you.

 

[alkemyst]

Try a pot on a griddle...don't think you can boil water with it even though it goes to 400F.

 

[randay]

lol if it got hot enough in the dryer to light butane(or anything like that), your underpants would come out crispified as well.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Krazy4Real
Does the lighter still work after going through the washer and drier?

Yup.

Originally posted by: randay
lol if it got hot enough in the dryer to light butane(or anything like that), your underpants would come out crispified as well.

I didn't think it would just ignite the butane, I thought that if the pressure in the lighter got high enough under heat it would explode.

 

[GregGreen]

I've done that a couple times. Never had a problem. Lighters usually work afterwards. The pants do sometimes smell a bit like chemicals but no stains or anything

 

[mattocs]

Done is many times. Nothing has happened yet