Quick and easy Alcohol Flame - Tampon Powered!

I've been playing with P.E.T. plastic lately and after spending a couple weeks worth of lunch-hours and breaks cutting up all kinds of water bottles, detergent bottles, disposable plates and anything thing else that might be some melty fun, I figured I needed to get busy doing the melting part!

***SAFETY FIRST!***
Using any kind of flammable material around an open flame can be deadly. Do not leave a flame unattended. Work in a ventilated area. This is fire! I take no responsibility for anyone's ignorance, stupidity or carelessness.

My first attempt was using a small camp-stove-sized gas canister and a torch head I had hanging around. Talk about overkill...
I decided all I really needed was a candle flame, one that wouldn't shrink as I used it or leave soot all over everything. I also wanted to be able to use it in my car portable art studio so it had to be small and fairly safe. Couldn't go back in to my desk job with third-degree burns.

Step 1:

The only small glass containers I had were a salt-n-pepper shaker set with screw-on caps. I drilled out a hole in one cap, lined the cap with aluminum foil to seal the rest of the holes, stuffed a tampon into the hole I had drilled (it was the only wick-type thing I had available), filled the jar with rubbing alcohol and lit it. It didn't work very well. Good thing I had two of them.
The second time around I simply lined the cap with foil to seal all but the center one, poked a hole through the foil with a toothpick, and shoved just the tampon STRING through.