Beware of cheapo lighters

Reason for blank half hour earlier :-

There was a noise upstairs (like a bang of something falling down) and Kuchar, good boy, jumped up with a warning woof. My son went upstairs to investigate and saw a glow round the edges of his bedside drawer, opened it and found that a cigarette lighter had spontaneously gone into meltdown and set fire to a £10 note and a £5 note.

It was one of those really cheapy lighters that you light by spinning a wheel with your thumb.

 wow glad i dont smoke anymore

Something the scaremongers don't warn you about  

i bet it was made in china

omg! im going to share this on FB if you don't mind, i know loads of people who get them in £ land.

Had he just put it in there or something Lynda or had it been in there a while , I have seen them before where the valve doesn't shut off properly and the fuel is still burning when you put it down

I don't mind at all Hayley. They are the sort of lighters you get in a pack of 4 or 5 in Poundland, I believe.

They're a rip off anyway, as I've been told they are recycled cases with just some more gas put in, so wear out long before the gas is used up.

What caused this thing to spontaneously combust I haven't a clue. Thank heavens it happened when we were in the house, otherwise it could have been more than just £15 that was lost.

(Could you let me know if any useful feedback comes to you?)

Been there since yesterday Dave. Nothing else burned thank God except what's in the photo.

Never heard of that one before and can't understand why it would just go like that without any additional heat source etc .  

Gosh thanks Lynda will bear this in mind!  

Dave wrote:Never heard of that one before and can't understand why it would just go like that without any additional heat source etc .  

I can't either Dave. I have my suspicions now that the lighter was used more recently than I was led to believe, and I too suspect a leaky valve with some residual heat. However, it must have been at least an hour before the "bang" and it still shouldn't have gone off like that.

wow scary!

That's awful Lynda your £15 may not be lost if you can still see both serial numbers the bank changes them the reason I know is I once microwaved £800.00  

how the hell do you microwave £800  

ella wrote:how the hell do you microwave £800  

hid it in their whilst I have workmen there forgot about it then used the microwave to time an egg boiling the metal filament caught fire and we had toasty notes luckily the bank changed some and the Bank of England changed the rest I think we lost about £80 in all that was to burnt to change

My god, scary  

And Hayley  Thats a brilliant story!

OH Didn't think so at the time he had to go to 3 big companies and ask them to re-rite 3 cheques

haha brilliant!

!!! I hope you bought an egg timer!! Ahh haha that story had really cheered me up