- How to make a little flasher - This is very simple and provides entertainment if you have nothing else to do. It takes about an hour to cut up all the caps, unless you have a few friends. You need the paper caps that come on a roll. Not the plastic ones. Then take a wide candle about 3\4 inch in diameter. Take out the wick so you have just the wax. Cut the wax so its about an inch tall. Then make a hole in it about the width of a teenagers pinky finger and leave the bottom about 3mm thick. After you have done that and cut out the caps in a circular form (make sure you do not leave excess paper around the caps), compact the caps in the wax cylinder(not pressing to hard!). After you have about half the caps in, place the wick in the cylinder. Then finish packing the caps in. The wick should be sticking out of the cylinder about 1\2 inch. Now light it........It should flash when the flame hits or heats up the caps. The speed of the flash depends on have compact the caps are. If they are not packed in good they will more likley burn than flash which will cause a little mushroom cloud of smoke which I think is cool to. Have fun!!!! --------Vortex