pill bottle mini help!

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tater36
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Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:04 pm

Ok i have been working on this for a while. my mini has a very crappy ignition source (a dissected push button lighter and some thin copper wire), but i can get a pretty nice arc across the middle of the bottle i have used bathroom spray which produced two nice booms with no bb and one boom with the gas from the lighter but now nothing works, and i cant use the lighter cause its broken :lol: any suggestions on good fuels?
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paaiyan
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Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:08 pm

Well for something that small, hmm, butane? Just take a disposable lighter and give it a little squirt.
ness644
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Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:15 pm

well I made a mini last week and I fround out that when i blew in the pill bottle after I sprayed in bathroom stuff it help to get a spark or flame but then my mini was realy bad so I never uploaded it on to spudfiles so i think u shud see if wat I did will work for u? p.s soz for any bad spelling
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super spuder
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Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:26 pm

anything that is flammable will work. try using deodorant. some of the deodorants will leave goopy stuff, but some wont. ps ness644, they do have a spell check
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gotbass7
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Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:38 pm

someone told me walgreen brand deodorant. in a posting on a forum i had. and i use old spice though, but dont use it it sucks. it gets all like slimey
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Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:04 pm

try axe cuz it contains butane
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