Probably many people know about the diesel effect, and the principle of its operation.
In this article, the author of the YouTube channel Igor Beletsky will tell you how he made a simple diesel lighter, or an air flint.
Materials
- Plexiglass
- Steel stock
- Rubber rings
- syringe
- Cotton wool, napkins
- Metal wool.
Test process.
The body of the main model was made of plexiglass. This is done to demonstrate the effect.
Igor placed a small piece of cotton wool inside the cylinder. Now, with a quick lowering of the piston, the air pressure and its temperature sharply increase.
This happens so quickly that the temperature is enough to ignite the cotton wool.
And here is the smoldering cotton wool, you can make a fire.
In order to just light a fire, you can use an ordinary syringe. To do this, cut off the tip and seal the hole with a piece of rubber. It remains to put the ignited material inside.
Now, having sharply hit the piston, we get fire.
That's all, cotton wool smolders.
Igor also decided to conduct an experiment with the ignition of metal wool. Theoretically, the ignition temperature is about a thousand degrees.
The peak temperature depends on the pressure jump, for this reason the author made such a long piston and cylinder. This design allowed to obtain a pressure of about 10 atmospheres.
Thanks to Igor Beletsky for the simple but interesting idea of a lighter, and its testing!
All good mood, good luck, and interesting ideas!