On Sun, 05 Nov 2017 15:14:02 GMT, Iggy wrote:

don't even know what a pan or log burner is and likely think cigarettes
ignite petrol.

IIRC a pan burner is full of sand, it is not an open pan with a pool
of petrol in it.

My direct experience is of using about a tablespoon of petrol as an
accelerant on a small camp fire. The lit match was a few inches away
when the vapours went WHUMPFF and the entire fire lifted a couple of
inches and fell back, the fire ball got my fringe and only half the
length of my eye brows.

I won#t be doing that again. Well I might but from some what further
away and as a demostration to the kids of the very different
behaviour of petrol, parafin and diesel.

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Cheers
Dave.