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How should one light a Solstice bonfire?  This year, I did it with thermite (video has a naughty word 'cos I was startled).  That's about 150 grammes of stoichiometric thermite made with ordinary, off-the-shelf stuff and lit with a sparkler.  The molten iron, at around 2000c, spattered and burned so we didn't retrieve it, but this proof-of-concept firing means I can go ahead with the thermite lost-wax casting I've got in the project file.  Yes, I'm going to be doing mjolnirs.  :)