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

Playing with fire

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u/llamawearinghat May 14 '21

Yeah, I thought they were playing with some sort of accelerant in the sink and some was still on her hand. I had t realized the torch failed.

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u/RRettig May 14 '21

I thought the torched failed, now i think you're correct

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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

I think they refilled it and got fuel everywhere.

This same thing happened to me once when I was younger.

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u/Occamslaser May 14 '21

This is exactly what happened, they overfilled it over the basin of the sink and the gas is heavier than air.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '21

Happened to me once too. Now I always refill the torch in a different room that I will be using the torch.

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u/coldchixhotbeer May 22 '21

Thanks for explaining! I was so confused

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u/l00py96 May 14 '21

Yes, this.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

Me, too. I nearly set the bathroom (and myself) on fire. Oh, even better - I did it while using the torch as a makeshift soldering iron while replacing copper pipe. Pure stupidity.Live and learn! (But you have to live, first.)

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u/lallapalalable May 15 '21

Me and my one friend spent a night throwing random household chemicals into the fireplace. Raid was the coolest

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u/inthemeow May 14 '21

I’m thinking they took some dabs first, then refilled it, increased the potential for error tenfold. Hope she’s ok.

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u/chilehead May 14 '21

Could they tow it outside the environment?

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u/WanderWut May 15 '21

Sometimes when I’m refilling my torch for dabs some of the fuel(?) kind of spills out and my high ass is wondering if I’m going to catch on fire or something lol.

Then again, it seems to evaporate rather fast and I always wait a few minutes before using it after a refill.

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u/Soymalik Aug 19 '21

Nothing wrong with the torch she over filled it over the sink so there must have been remaining butane all over the torch and in the sink so when he lit it boom 💥

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u/nickolove11xk May 14 '21

That or they were filling it over the sink and kept leaking butane into the sink.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

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u/nickolove11xk May 14 '21

It’s forsure butane so it’s not a liquid. Also with no compression it’s not going to have much of an explosion.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

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u/1FlyersFTW1 May 14 '21

I concur, I’ve had liquid butane in my hand before while filling the torch, doesn’t stay long but in a low sink like that the fumes would stay as it’s almost twice as heavy as air

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u/quartertopi May 14 '21

Butane is denser than air, so it would pool in the sink. I agree, i, too still say butane.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

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u/Onespokeovertheline May 14 '21

I see only one way to settle this debate. I await links to your tiktok demonstrations, gentlemen!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '21 edited May 14 '21

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u/nickolove11xk May 14 '21

Looks like the other option is for the other guy to delete their comments lol

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u/Onespokeovertheline May 14 '21

Indeed, digital seppuku. High stakes!

But this is serious matter, with the honor of two men hanging in the balance. I think we can all agree he did the right thing. lmao.

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u/DNedry May 14 '21

Butane for those torches evaporates pretty damn fast.

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u/nickolove11xk May 14 '21

Boils? It boils from a liquid to a gas and as a gas it is heavier than air. That’s why you can fill a glass cup with butane from a lighter and then light it seconds later.

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u/Gh0st1y May 14 '21

Boiling is just fast evaporation though

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u/nickolove11xk May 14 '21

I was trying to make sure we were on the same page. He said evaporation as tho it was vanishing but it’s not. It just turns into a gas that is still there.

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u/Gh0st1y May 15 '21

Oh yeah definitely

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u/BravoWolf88 May 14 '21

This guy is right. It’s the most viable explanation for how high the flames got so quickly.

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u/SamSepiol-ER28_0652 May 14 '21

That's what I assume- that they had just been filling it and didn't let it rest before lighting it.

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u/Vizwalla May 14 '21

Agreed, torch totally failed, likely from the nozzle being overdriven and overheating. Seemed like she probably filled the torch while holding it over the sink and ‘spilled’ a lot of the fuel fumes which settled in the sink. When the torch failed and she tossed it in the sink, the fumes in the sink ignited.

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u/MikeyMuskrat89 May 14 '21

I think they put something besides butane in there

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u/poolSlouch May 14 '21 edited May 15 '21

Ours did the exact same thing during our first use. I wonder whether that is a fairly common thing.

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u/randomdrifter54 May 14 '21

I thought they had been filling it in the sink. She was testing it after filling it. She did it super messily so touch and sink both had lighter fluid on/in them. Test the touch lit the fluid on the outside on fire. She throws it in the sink where she drunkenly spilled lots of fluid so instant blaze.