Sometimes you want to give a gift to your loved one and loved one from which his heart would freeze. Especially to the place such gifts for outstanding events in human life, such as a wedding, anniversary or just a romantic date. It’s good to launch sky lanterns into the sky at such moments, it’s like that beautiful and romanticwhen a burning heart rises up. You can make such flashlights and do it yourself, it’s not so difficult, but the work requires special accuracy and accuracy of execution, since we are dealing with fire.
Such lanterns have recently begun to replace fireworks, because the latter are much more expensive, and the opportunity to watch them is calculated in a few seconds, while sky lanterns can be observed up to 30 minutes. The height of their flight reaches 200-300 meters, with a burning time of 15-20 minutes of the burner, which heats the air inside the flashlight. Thanks to this hot air, they fly, then, when the burner goes out, the air gradually cools, and the lanterns fall to the ground.
Today we will tell how make such a flashlight do it yourself. First you need to determine the form, it can be different: a star, a heart, car, flower and other shapes. We will make the easiest in the form of a dome.
To work for us need a thin trash bag light color with a capacity of 120l, tracing paper by the size of the package, it is sold in the clerical department, a wire that keeps its shape, a strip of dense fabric 4x50 cm in size, liquid fuel that kindles a bonfire, paraffin or wax, glue or scotch tape, and fire-retardant paper impregnation.
Even before the start of work it is necessary to soak tracing paper with a flame retardant, this is necessary to prevent tracing paper from sunbathing and also fire retardant has a water-repellent effect that will not allow it to absorb excess moisture, thereby not allowing to make our design heavy. In the case of a strong flame from the burner, even if the fire touches such a tracing-paper, it will simply ignite a small hole in it, but it will not work. We unfold the garbage bag and glue tracing paper inside it with glue or double-sided tape. The result is a dome that is protected from fire inside and outside from rain.
Further twist the ring from wire the diameter is slightly smaller than the diameter of the package and from the next two pieces we make a cross-connection. In the center of this core, we fix the burner and connect everything to the ring. Then we attach the entire frame to the finished dome.
To get a burner, we impregnate the fabric with fuel and paraffin, fold the fabric itself into a rectangular shape 4x2.5 cm in size. Before attaching the burner to our dome, we need to conduct a small test. To do this, we will have to make several more similar burners, but do not rush to do them at the same time. We ignite our burner and look at the height of the flame, while detecting the burner burning time. If the flame is very high, it is worth removing several layers of fabric, if low - add. The same applies to the burning time - if the burner burns very low, it will not have time to warm the air in the dome. Correct the burner and light it again, if everything turned out well and the burning time suits us, make another one exactly the same and fix it to the center of the metal core in the frame. Do not neglect these tests, since your safety and the altitude of the flashlight depend on them.
The housing itself before assembly can be painted with your desires or decorate with pictures expressing your feelings. To do this, use water markers and do everything very carefully so as not to damage the package itself. It remains to launch our flashlight with the person to whom it is intended.