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Wrap the connections with electrical tape. Bottle Bazooka – Piezo-ignitor to Spark Gap Connection William Gurstelle Test the device by pressing the button on the piezo-electric ignitor.

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He also demonstrates the speaker using a piezo igniter from one of those long barbecue lighters and a crystal radio earpiece. As always, the video is after the jump.

When the piezo igniter sparks, the coherer rapidly becomes conductive, and can be restored to a non-conductive state, or de-cohered, by tapping the tube.

Piezo igniter from a common lighter As per a paper by soft tissue expert, Dr Warren Hammer, “When skin is stretched, electric pulsations are created.