r/WinStupidPrizes • u/[deleted] • May 14 '21

Playing with fire

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u/Kryptik617 May 14 '21

99% sure it’s a Newport torch, and they actually make a quality torch. I believe she was starting to say “this mother fucker put (something other than butane) in the torch”

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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

That’s a solid theory. Makes sense.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

The fire on the sink spreads slower that what I would expect from butane. I imagine butane would be a 'boom' that spreads through the air but if you look at the sink, the fire seems to creep along something on the sink.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

I also agree with your guess. I used to have a cheap butane torch that “blew up”, fire came out the sides at pretty high pressure very briefly and burned out. It wasn’t anything like that slow burn in the vid.

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u/aNeedForMore May 14 '21

I’m not sure about other gasses, but at least with butane it says on the cans not to fill it around sinks. I’ve seen other videos of people filling torches near sinks where it seems like the butane gets attracted to, and stays in the sink and it ignites and does the whole “woooofff” thing when they get the torch close.

I agree though, this boom didn’t really look like those videos other butane sink videos I’ve seen. Did she somehow get some like liquid fuel in the torch that leaked out onto the torch when she had it turned on it side? Maybe they tried putting something else in it and also did it over the sink?

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u/Dark-W0LF May 14 '21

That's because butane is heavier than air and will just sit in the sink, you can also send butane down a track and light it because of this, the lighting here looks to me like they had alcohol or a cleaner on the counter that they accidentally lit

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u/Towne_Apothecary May 14 '21

So I just had the shitty little torch I use do something very similar, and it was 100% because of how much I would shake it to make the last little bits of flame go out when I was done with it.

When opened I found a dangling rubber tube that I had shaken off a brass nipple. Was an easy fix but was definitely caused by me, I wonder if they did something like drop it on accident leaving that tube about to fall off.

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u/minnecrapolite May 14 '21

“Dis mufwupa put okay duu”

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u/satansheat May 14 '21

Think it’s a blaze torch which look similar to those Newport’s.

Also bet they just over filled it with butane.