How to make a motorcycle out of lighters with your own hands

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

If your relatives smoke, then they probably very often buy plastic disposable lighters (they are more durable than matches, but still they also become unsuitable for further use). And often, when the gas runs out, they throw them away. However, spare parts of Chinese technology will come in handy if you decide to make a motorcycle out of a lighter with your own hands. The motorcycle will be 4 cm long, 2 cm high and 1 cm wide. Let's take a closer look at how to assemble a motorcycle from a lighter.

Spare parts of lighters as materials

Since making a motorcycle out of lighters is easy if you use the instructions, check out the following list of elements that make up a lighter:

• 1 or 2 pieces - nozzle protection;
• 2 pieces - case for wheel, lever, silicon and spring;
• 1 piece - nozzle arm;
• 1 or 2 pieces - nozzle (depending on the number of exhaust pipes);
• 2 pieces - silicon spring;
• 2 pieces -nozzle body;
• 2 pieces - silicon;
• 2 pieces - incendiary wheel;
• 1 piece - porous filter, 2 pcs. - if with lid.

How to make a motorcycle from lighters: the necessary tool

In addition to all of the above, the following materials and tools will also come in handy:

• superglue;
• double sided tape;
• gas burner or work lighter;
• awl.

How to make a motorcycle out of lighters: step by step instructions

Take the case for the lever, insert the spring for silicon, the wheel for silicon and silicon into the corresponding grooves. The wheel should turn freely. The result is the front of the motorcycle.

Similarly, the back of the bike is done. Insert the nozzle arm into the front (this is the seat).

Wrap the nozzle with double-sided tape or superglue and paste it into the nozzle body (this is the exhaust pipe).

Attach the exhaust pipes to the back of the motorcycle, just above the wheel.

Take the front of the motorcycle and turn it wheel down. Heat the awl over the fire and make a hole in the protruding pin with it. Put the cap on the porous filter and insert it into the hole that was previously made. Put another cap on the filter. Cut off the excess filter, melt the edge. So the bike now has a handlebar.

Soside of the handlebars to the front of the motorcycle, attach the nozzle protection and, squeezing slightly, secure. Fasten the second protection a little lower.

Connect the front and back of the motorcycle, reinforcing them with a seat. If, due to the design features of the case, this cannot be done, then first combine them by melting or smearing with glue.

With all the above manipulations, it is very important to observe the accuracy and clarity of actions, and even more so their sequence. As the people say: “Measure seven times - cut once.”

Second way

There is a second way to make a motorcycle out of lighters. First, fuse the cases together (this is the main difference from the first method).

In this case, the seat (which is the nozzle lever) is also heated over the fire and “soldered”. The exhaust pipe is made from a nozzle that is inserted tightly over the rear wheel into the body. This does not require glue. A motorcycle with 2 lighters on the front can be decorated with only one protection (for the nozzle). In addition, a motorcycle made of two lighters can be made more exclusive by adding a number, tempers, headlights…

It is also important to be careful here, especially when fusing two bodies, so as not to overheat the tip of the soldering iron and thus ruin the lighter by deforming it.

So we looked at how to make motorcycles from lighters. Of course, at the request of the designer, you can attach many more different parts, but within the framework of this article, we consider a general principle that was invented not so long agoby one young modeling enthusiast from the United States of America.

A lighter motorcycle assembled by yourself will testify to your high level of ability to design something and a careful attitude. Also, this craft will be a good gift for any man. Even if no one in your family smokes, you can buy two lighters cheaply from the store and assemble this simple but rather interesting project. Dare in the manufacture of this motorcycle model, be patient, and may you succeed!