the lie we were taught about lighters

metallurgy has brought us something much cooler than flint #shorts

[dangerous]

"Hey everyone, ever seen one of these?"

"Here, I have a massive piece of it."

[azvinmaniact]

"wanna smoke?"

"Yeah let me get my ferrocerium

[calebmeek]

“I have a massive piece of this alloy” made me laugh out loud for some reason lol

[Drrewsterr]

His "Petty Cool Right" feels like he's telling me that it's cool not asking 😂

[Truedoogie]

I feel oddly threatened every time he says, “Pretty cool, right?”

[MuhammadFarhan-rqwj]

“Say the line bart!”
*sigh*
pretty cool *right*

[nickrobinsonaws]

I feel like every time I’ve put any type of metal on a grinding wheel it creates a “huge shower of sparks”

[Barack_Osama]

every bushcrafter is crying rn after seeing him scrape the ferro rod with his knife

[joshuasmith]

"i just lit my house on fire with this."
Pretty cool, right?

[rednecktaylor]

If you’re ever going to strike a knife against something like that use the back side of the knife so you don’t damage the edge

Edit: To all of you who are salty about what I said it just a tip so you don’t mess up your knives. Stop getting so upset.

[PaulGrayUK]

My favourite trick is putting a stick of magnesium on a grinding wheel and showing the workshop in UV light emitted by the burning magnesium - pretty hot right :).

[brentsnocomgaming]

Some lighters also use piezoelectric crystals and act like microphones in reverse, where rapidly squeezing the crystal creates a large voltage, which is used to make a spark. Electroboom made a video on this where he used the crystal inside a lighter to make an XBOX 360 grade microphone.

[penumbragaming]

**3 hours later**
*"mom i can explain why the house is on fire!"*

[norxcontacts]

Light the stick of ferrocyrium with a blow torch to red hot and slam it on the ground.

[Memer]

“Pretty cool, right?”
*Burns house down*

[genericalien]

This is also what fire starters are made of, they're called ferro rods (obviously cause it's a ferrocerium rod) and a decent one with some experience can instantly light any fluffy dry material ablaze

[preppingforbeginners]

Watching him do that with the edge of a knife hurt my feelings

[FlamingWhoopsie]

If he goes through a video without saying “pretty cool right?”, something is wrong

[thedarklord]

If you pause the video where he shows his face, you can title that picture: Arsonist just discovering his favorite fire material

[LlamasOldAcc]

“ how to make a homemade flash bang“

-quiz the llama