Handy Hints, Gadgets, Products & Gizmos
Another member suggested a new forum section with new products but it doesn't look like it will be feasible. So I thought I would post this here under General RVing Issues. If enough people post (even...
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jassrnj wrote:
"""3 dog nights wrote:
This is one of my favorite's. Go to Lowes or HD and get an 18" piece of copper pipe about 3/8 or 1/4 diameter. Put a piece of tape around one end. You now have the greatest tool ever made to keep your campfire going if the wood is wet or a little to green. If you've ever spent the night blowing on a fire trying to keep it going or to get it to flare up again, you will love this. It will turn the smallest flame into a blowtorch in nothing flat.
edit: obviously you blow into the end with the tape."""
Too short and you can burn your nose and eyes ... how hot does the pipe get? You can also burn your lips. Sounds dangerous ... will let my DW try it first.
This is funny, because we have used a piece of pipe to stoke the fire for years (decades now actually) Started in early 90's when my b-i-l had a 9 foot piece of pipe in his garage that we used to stir the fire in his firepit in the back yard. The guys would poke it, and blow through it to get the fire going and keep it going. It was so long that it didn't burn you to handle the other end and you actually had to stand kind of far away to even blow through it. Eventually we started packing it and taking it camping and it now lives in the trailer. However over the years it would gradually melt away and it is now less than 6' long, probably closer to 5' long. One of my husband's favorite tricks is to pour some (cheap) liquor down the pipe and it flames out the top end and makes a brief torch and the kids think it is the coolest thing. Fun around the campfire....
~Karin
