A good place to find BBQ igniters

[zaphar]

The other day I was at my local dump looking for things for the cannon I'm making and I found a bunch of old BBQ grills they all had the igniters in them It beats paying $12 for a new one...

[Casper]

mine came from a neighbors backyard haha

[saladtossser]

garbage collection day rules all

[guitarfreak]

garbage collection day rules all

it does,im always out scavenging haha

[deathtodeer666]

I was out the last weekend in november camping on the beach and in the middle of the night I took a walk to relax because it was a full moon and about a mile down the beach there is a landslide area that has been evacuated about three month ago the place was covered in beach houses and every one had a bbq on the porch! the houses were completly empty but some stuff they left behind I must have gotten at least 30 of them that adds up to just about $500 i saved! yee-haw

[TalonXxX]

you stole 30 BBQ ignitors???

[CS]

What! Not trying to be negative but isnt that illegal to go through people property even though its destroyed? Looting? All power to you though, not like I havent done anything illegal! Just dont get caught and dont talk about it on a public forum. I would of took those propane tank adapters to. "A mans trash is anothers treasure" thats what I love about spud guns is there is stuff that you can use for them that gets throw away and then you salavage it for a good purpose. 30 of them! You must of been doing this for a while! In closing I would like to say one more thing AWESOME JOB!

[deathtodeer666]

the houses i went to were just about to be bulldozed down like the ones around them the igniters would just have gotten smashed. and thanks pimpman, I just wish I could have gotten the tanks and adapters o well they are gone now.

[Cronic]

I have one question. Don't you have ignition coils (it's called something else I think) in hair dryers?

[longshot1068]

A hair dryer is basically a fan and a heating element. the element is coiled up but it does nothing electrically except provide enough resistance to heat up red hot, an ignition coil ( obviously ) amplifies electricity: a property not found in a hair dryer.

[Cronic]

Actually it does have an element ( I don't know it's name in English). Try this. Turn it on, plug it first obvious. Then after a minute quickly unplug it and touch the plug (the both electrodes?). You'll get shocked. Dunno if that's enough to produce a spark anyway...

[zaphar]

sounds like something a capacitor would do.

[Cronic]

That's right you just fill it in 220V ACDC current and then connect to some high resistance material also found in hair dryers it becomes red and really hot and I think it's pretty good ignition trick

[deathtodeer666]

your thinking of a metal called nickel cadnium its used in cigarette lighters in cars, toasters and blow dryers I use it to ignite flash powder and black powder in mines and trip wires for my paintball friends.

[Cronic]

That's the one (It's called nikelin where I'm from) so my theory would work right?