Frank Erskine wrote:
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:04:16 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
had this to say:

RubberBiker wrote:
Any better ideas welcomed!
Light it when you get home, but use a hot air paint-stripper gun to
get it going *quickly*.

nah. Use a blowlamp.

couple of firelighters under some 1/2 x 1 lath, a few 2" sticks piled on
top with plenty of airflow, and a couple of big uns on top.

Embed a bit of nichrome wire (the sort of stuff you got on electric
fire elements) into a firelighter and power it from a transformer fed
via a timeswitch.

doesn't work. Better is fusewire wrapped around match heads embedded in
a mixture of potassium or sodium chlorate and....