Cool diy emergency fire starter idea

[BlackRyder]

thanks, YouTube!

Found these videos today and Im totally going to try making this little system- I think it's super cool!

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[Caveman Jim]

That's awesome if you have dry tinder..... I likes me some gasoline and a zippo for the PNW.....

And yes, I do not have any hair on my hands, arms nor eyebrows.....

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Old fashioned Flint and Steel with a bit of char cloth works pretty good too!
Andy

 

[BlackRyder]

Yeah my takeaway from the videos Is that the char cloth is a really good thing to have in your kit, and the piston thingy is a really cool thing to have in your kit!
My 4 year old son's mind is going to be blown by that fire piston, for sure.

 

[oknow]

Old fashioned Flint and Steel with a bit of char cloth works pretty good too!
Andy

And takes up a lot less room.

 

[jordanka16]

I always have magnesium and ferrocerrium in my car, the modern version of Flint and steel. Works great even in the wet and cold.

 

[Mikej]

I knew of "Char Cloth' but had no idea what it was. Now I'll make me some to have with the magnesium fire starter thing.

 

[DB is Here]

1) Small pieces of cardboard dipped in paraffin wax.

2) Empty cardboard egg container, fill with dryer lint, cover lint with paraffin wax.

These are the two I've used. Cheap and easy to make too.

 

[Silver Hand]

I keep my Bic dry, have lots of matches and when the kindling is a bit wet, or I don't feel like chopping that much wood,
I use my Mapp torch with the auto ignition to get the wood stove burning again. Propain works almost as well.
Silver Hand

 

[rdb241]

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2) Empty cardboard egg container, fill with dryer lint, cover lint with paraffin wax.

These are the two I've used. Cheap and easy to make too.

I do the egg carton and dryer lint thing but I add course saw dust with the lint. I save old unburned candle wax instead of paraffin.

 

[BlackRyder]

I do that too! Egg cartons filled with lint, sawdust, and wax. But I use old surf wax scraped off my surfboards. Reduce reuse recycle!

 

[Silver Hand]

What- Don't you guys know about matches and dry wood?

Kidding - Fire is fun to play with, back East - NYC I got a fire going using a large magnifier once when I was a kid.
I scraped the shellac from a restaurant door had it nestled in some straw n dry grass, got smoke then fire. Looked up and Dad was parking his car on the street coming home from work.
I was in the restaurants double door entry [closed Monday I guess] and being about six or so years old got by bubblegum kicked all the way home.
I was not playing with matches, I kept yelling but it didn't help stop that strap. 1950s.
Silver Hand