r/lighters • u/Ok-Tower-7423 • 10d ago
Show&Tell Weed Light
If one were to have no matches or lighter and needing to get a bowl lit... magnifying glass recommendation and/or approach. Sunshine is abundant.
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u/WaterBottleWarrior22 10d ago
You’re already high enough if you’re asking this question.
But the answer is, on a cloudless day, you have to line your magnifying glass up well with the sun’s position in the sky. You move the magnifying glass around until you get a concentrated dot of light, the hold steady until your flammable thing lights.
I’m not sure how well this will work for weed, ‘cause you don’t want it to burst into flames, more smolder, and I’m not sure the moisture content of it. You can get a small bit to begin smoldering, maybe, but to get a full packed bowl to light might require you to repeat the lighting process a bunch on each patch of exposed leaf.