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Jimmers Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 145
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: The MacGuyver thread |
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I've got 2 AA batteries, aluminum foil and possibly some copper wire. I've run out of matches and I've lost my lighter. Can anyone tell me how to make a cigarette lighter (car-like) from the above? |
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Tenobok Apprentice

Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 199 Location: This planet
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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The only thing that I can tell you is, that the guy's name is MacGyver.
To your problem: I did always solve this problem by using a hot plate. Yes, it's a waste of electricity, but it works.  _________________ Conservative Trigger Warning: (Thx to Old_School)
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Naib Watchman


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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Slave to the flame _________________ The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter
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zenlunatic Guru

Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 312
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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If I told you, I would have to kill you, (and Naib just because). |
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mdeininger Veteran


Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1740 Location: Emerald Isles, observing Dublin's docklands
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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maybe the batteries will light up if you throw them into a can of pepsi ;D
oh, wait, no pepsi. _________________ "Confident, lazy, cocky, dead." -- Felix Jongleur, Otherland
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atrus123 Guru


Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 339 Location: Annapolis, MD
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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swallow the batteries and the copper wire. wear the aluminum foil on your head like a hat. start chanting. in a couple of hours, the aliens should show up, and one of them is bound to have a lighter you can borrow. _________________ "I cannot support a movement that exploded spending and borrowing and blames its successor for the debt."
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gotaserena Apprentice


Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 153 Location: fourth worst city in the world
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Electric rigidity of air : 10.000 V/m^2
Two AA batteries (in series): 3 V
Distance to have dielectric breakdown of air (and hence a spark): about 1/3 of a milimeter...
I'd get the copper wire, make two wires and connect each to each end of the batteries in series, and then bring the other end of each wire to the distance above.
I'll doubt that the spark of 3 V will be enough to ignite anything, though. |
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Naib Watchman


Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 5713 Location: Removed by Neddy
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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spark will not ignite the fag, there will not be enough energy in it
Neither is their enough energy in two AA battery's to heat up the copper wire to a temperature to ignigite tobbaco IF the battery's were in series (or parallel) and the stack was shorted out with the wire.
Yr best bet is to use the battery's and throw them at some1 and then use the copper wire to threaten some1 for a light _________________ The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter
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dmitchell Veteran


Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 1159 Location: Austin, Texas
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Impossible -- you have no duct tape. _________________ Your argument is invalid. |
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/dev/random l33t


Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 704 Location: Austin, Texas, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Find some change and buy a new lighter? |
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playfool l33t


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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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connect batteries in serie then go to the kitchen and dig out some steel wool.. now create a spark by connecting the two poles with the wool (you can use the wire to make the process easier) and voila flame.
I'm unsure if that will work with 2 AA batts but I've seen it done with other types. |
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Ian l33t

Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 834 Location: Somerville, MA
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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I've started fires with car batteries before...but those are 12 volts and can source hundreds of amps, making wires basically vaporize from the heat.
My advice, stop smoking. Then you don't have to worry about how to light one up. |
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dforsyth n00b


Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 26 Location: College Park, Murdaland
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:42 am Post subject: |
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take the copper and make a small wire frame model of a person. then take teh foil and make a hat for the man. NOW take the two batteries and put them in your phone. use that phone to call a friend with a light. _________________ O
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xPAGANx Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 93 Location: Warren, Michigan
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: |
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Take the copper wire and make two coils. One of the coils will have significantly more winds in it to amplify the output. Attach the Batteries in series to the low wind coil. Place the large turn wire coil next to the other coil to amplify the power. Create a small gap in the ends of the output coil to create a high voltage spark. |
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gotaserena Apprentice


Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 153 Location: fourth worst city in the world
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:07 am Post subject: |
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xPAGANx wrote: | Take the copper wire and make two coils. One of the coils will have significantly more winds in it to amplify the output. Attach the Batteries in series to the low wind coil. Place the large turn wire coil next to the other coil to amplify the power. Create a small gap in the ends of the output coil to create a high voltage spark. |
Hmm, that only works with an alternate current.... |
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Ian l33t

Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 834 Location: Somerville, MA
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:10 am Post subject: |
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gotaserena wrote: | Hmm, that only works with an alternate current.... |
You mean alternating, right? Having an alternate current, say from two other AA batteries, won't make a transformer work any better than the first two AA batteries . |
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energyman76b Advocate


Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2045 Location: Germany
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:23 am Post subject: |
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I don't know if two AA cells are powerfull enough - but if you short a 9V cell (like with a key, while you are carrying it in a trouser), the cell and the key will get hot, really,really fast (I burnt myself that way). _________________ Study finds stunning lack of racial, gender, and economic diversity among middle-class white males
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Welsh Mounting Sheep n00b


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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:35 am Post subject: |
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1) take both batteries & go outside
2) Find parked car; throw batteries at passenger window till window smashes.
3) Open car door; Retrieve battery.
4) Try cigarette lighter in car dashboard.
5) If lighter does not work, try next car along till you find one with a lighter that works whilst ignition off.
WMS
(and before anyone says anything, YES I AM TAKING THE PISS!!! ) |
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Jimmers Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 145
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:49 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I gave up on this. I tried making a stovetop coil-thing out of the aluminum foil and attaching the battery to it, but it just got mildly warm, and I had to recharge the battery. I thought about using an old computer power supply, but I didn't want a Darwin Award. |
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mdeininger Veteran


Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1740 Location: Emerald Isles, observing Dublin's docklands
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:33 am Post subject: |
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Jimmers wrote: | Yeah, I gave up on this. I tried making a stovetop coil-thing out of the aluminum foil and attaching the battery to it, but it just got mildly warm, and I had to recharge the battery. I thought about using an old computer power supply, but I didn't want a Darwin Award. |
hmm, if you use the ISA -12V motherboard line and the regular +12V line you can get 24V (albeit with little amps). then, if you connect the green wire of the ATX connector with a black one, the PSU will start up I doubt you could kill yourself with 24V  _________________ "Confident, lazy, cocky, dead." -- Felix Jongleur, Otherland
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sugar Guru


Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 579 Location: Morrinsville, New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:46 am Post subject: |
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Jimmers wrote: | Yeah, I gave up on this. I tried making a stovetop coil-thing out of the aluminum foil and attaching the battery to it, but it just got mildly warm, and I had to recharge the battery. I thought about using an old computer power supply, but I didn't want a Darwin Award. |
Scrape some iron oxide of something that is rusting and combine the two. You'll need to have quite an amount of both of them in as powery form as you can. Take the sulphuric acid out of the batteries and combine it with acetone (nail polish remover). The acid and acetone should provide a small spark, and if you have the right setup, you should be able to ignite the thermite reaction (iron oxide and aluminium).
Practically, I don't know how it would work. I'm not an engineer ffs! |
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curtis119 Bodhisattva


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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:46 am Post subject: |
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dmitchell wrote: | Impossible -- you have no duct tape. |
Nothing is possible without duct tape. It's a proven fact.  _________________ Gentoo: it's like wiping your ass with silk. |
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amne Bodhisattva


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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:46 am Post subject: |
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But i'm sure there is a way to improvise if you don't have duct-tape (e.g. because the villains took it from you before they locked you in their basement)? _________________ Dinosaur week! (Ok, this thread is so last week) |
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Albert_Alligator Apprentice


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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:53 am Post subject: |
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curtis119 wrote: | dmitchell wrote: | Impossible -- you have no duct tape. |
Nothing is possible without duct tape. It's a proven fact.  |
So says Red Green! ~ "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"(When all else fails, play dead.) _________________ As Socrates once said "I drank what?" |
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curtis119 Bodhisattva


Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 2160 Location: Phoenix, AZ USA, North America, Earth, SOL System, Milky Way, The Universe, The Cosmos, and Beyond.
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:11 am Post subject: |
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Albert_Alligator wrote: | curtis119 wrote: | dmitchell wrote: | Impossible -- you have no duct tape. |
Nothing is possible without duct tape. It's a proven fact.  |
So says Red Green! ~ "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"(When all else fails, play dead.) |
Goodbye Possum Lodge we'll miss you.
/me takes off hat and bows head in a moment of silence
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