Topic: Sulphur Candle

[Monika]

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!

[Kepouros]

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

[Merry Tiller]

If it was me I'd just get the thing going with a blowtorch

[Kepouros]

But you`d need to be an Olympic sprinter

[Merry Tiller]

Not at all, I can hold my breath for at least a minute & a half 8)