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Allotment Stuff => The Basics => Topic started by: Monika on September 11, 2006, 11:05:05

Title: Sulphur Candle
Post by: Monika on September 11, 2006, 11:05:05
Over the weekend I washed out the greenhouse ready for the winter and, yesterday evening, I lit a sulphur candle in there to fumigate it.

This morning when I went to open it up, I found that only part of the 'wick' had burned and all the sulphur chips are still intact.

With hardly any 'wick' left, can anyone suggest what I might use as I don't know what it is exactly.  It just looks like a piece of paper to me!

Title: Re: Sulphur Candle
Post by: Kepouros on September 11, 2006, 21:57:44
The `twist of paper` is similar to the blue touch paper on fireworks, and like fireworks it doesn`t always work properly first time.  Cut the top off an ordinary candle and break it up to get the wick out; make a hole in the sulphur candle with a skewer (or similar) and push in the candle wick
Title: Re: Sulphur Candle
Post by: Merry Tiller on September 12, 2006, 00:40:13
If it was me I'd just get the thing going with a blowtorch
Title: Re: Sulphur Candle
Post by: Kepouros on September 12, 2006, 01:51:58
But you`d need to be an Olympic sprinter
Title: Re: Sulphur Candle
Post by: Merry Tiller on September 12, 2006, 02:30:07
Not at all, I can hold my breath for at least a minute & a half 8)