home made fire ligthers could save your life in the bush

you need
*drinking straws
*cotton wool buds/balls
*Vaseline
*soldering iron or something hot with no flame

method
1. cut straws in half or 3rds depending on what size you want

2. use soldering iron to melt one end of the straw a very little and give it a squeeze to glue/seal the end

3. get a good amount of Vaseline into some cotton wool roll it around and kneed it in

4. fill straws with the treated cotton wool roll it into long thin snakes and twist it in (you'll work it out its easy after a few) you can use an alenkey or something to compact but make sure you leave 10mm ish at the end so you can seal the end

5. use soldering iron to seal the end in the same way as step 2

6.chuck a few in your hunting pack the cotton wool is sealed in the straw so they are water proof but I keep them in a snap lock bag as well for extra insurance

to use cut the straw with a knife, tease out the cotton wool so its all spread out till nice and thin this will take a spark very easy from a flint or magnesium striker, or you can just light with a match or lighter.... I always carry a magnesium striker when in the outdoors no matter how wet they get they will still never let you down:thumbsup:

will burn for about 20-30 seconds which is great to get your tinder going if things are a little damp and you can probably carry 20 of these for every one shop brought for lighter cube weight wise

Make up removal pads dipped in molten parafin wax, to use rip them in half exposing cotton fibres

Have a couple on cotton buds in Vaseline but putting them in straws is different

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Or just pour some hand sterilizer onto a dry flat rock and light it - only burns blue but it is enough to get small dry twigs going

Yep that works aswell but i think you need a lighter or match to get that going needs a flame not just a spark and so if ya lighter or matches get wet your stuffed? I could be worng been awhile since ive lit that stuff used to use the invisible fame to play dirty tricks on people back in high school

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Looks like something that could take a fair bit of explaining if the cops pulled you over ..........
"honest mr officer ......... they are just fire starters .....!" :wtfsmilie:

Looks bloody good.

I like the idea of stuffing it into a plastic straw.

Char Cloth will easily take a spark and burn good too.

Char cloth is easy to make as well, sealed into a plastic bag with a lighter and or a magnesium stick and you'll always have a source to start a fire.

Cheers
Pete

Its a good idea mate

i run a sealed tube about 3" x 1/2" full of vaseline and cotton balls works a treat will upgrade to straws when i use them up :)

Can't beat hexi and matches or a lighter. And if you get bored you can watch "hexi tv."

Cheezels... No SH!t, high fat and oil content.

Just don't get em' wet :ORLY:

Or use your Norma bullet holders.

belly button fluf works as well :D

I have a old pill container full of Vaseline coated cotton balls along with a lighter and matches in small vacuum sealed bag that I keep in kit for emergencies have found that a full cotton ball with a good coating of Vaseline will burn for close to 2 minutes


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Looks like something that could take a fair bit of explaining if the cops pulled you over ..........
"honest mr officer ......... they are just fire starters .....!" :wtfsmilie:

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You could offer him a taste test or sniff test. Does anyone know if Vicks does the same.......?

Great to see new ideas.
I personally just use an alco wipe from first aid kit and magnesium striker, goes up fast and always burns!

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Looks bloody good.

I like the idea of stuffing it into a plastic straw.

Char Cloth will easily take a spark and burn good too.

Char cloth is easy to make as well, sealed into a plastic bag with a lighter and or a magnesium stick and you'll always have a source to start a fire.

Cheers
Pete

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yep i use char cloth a lot as you cant use firelighters in comps at the club most shoots we have a fire lighting comp just for fun but I practice for them as I enjoy doing them

the issue with char cloth is it only smolders and you need to parcel it up in tinder and blow it to a flame not a hard job if your tinder is dry but if its slightly damp that's when you run into issues still do able if you know were to find try tinder but I prefer something that goes from spark directly to flame for the real world
cheers
darryn

Rambo me old mate, try Vicks vapour rub. Works better than Vaseline.
I have about 8 cotton balls rubbed with Vicks in a small M&M container. They light well with a flint and burn a lot better and longer than Vaseline.
Guess it will be a bonus if a blocked nose in the bush or hut at night

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yep i use char cloth a lot as you cant use firelighters in comps at the club most shoots we have a fire lighting comp just for fun but I practice for them as I enjoy doing them

the issue with char cloth is it only smolders and you need to parcel it up in tinder and blow it to a flame not a hard job if your tinder is dry but if its slightly damp that's when you run into issues still do able if you know were to find try tinder but I prefer something that goes from spark directly to flame for the real world
cheers
darryn

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I'm learning heaps here. What is char cloth though? Cheers


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Char cloth is cotton cloth old sheets or what have you as long as they are 100%cotton you need to burn the cloth with out letting it catch fire i use an old tobacco tin with a very small hole drilled in the top (to let the gas out but not to let enough air in to catch fire) then heat it on the gas stove you will see smoke come out the hole in the top light this with a lighter the gas comeing out of the top will burn like a candle when it goes out you know your char cloth is done.... you can do it with a coke can just shove the cloth in through the hole in the top and use that as the gas hole aswell then cut the can open when done you can do all of the above on the campfire aswell i just use gas coz im lazy

The rezulting product is dark black very light and fragile it takes a spark very easyly then will smolder for a good 10mins but this in a bundle of tinder and blow it till you get flame pretty easy to do with practice video on how its done https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8JTsS1SQXAI
He also has a video on how to make the stuff

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Rambo me old mate, try Vicks vapour rub. Works better than Vaseline.
I have about 8 cotton balls rubbed with Vicks in a small M&M container. They light well with a flint and burn a lot better and longer than Vaseline.
Guess it will be a bonus if a blocked nose in the bush or hut at night

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I'm sure it would Steve next time we have some ill try it out

something else you guys might be interested in is something called fat wood works a lot the same as pitch pine but its home made
basically get some very dry untreated pine melt down some parrfin wax candle wax you could use lard or pine resin also
once melted soak small pieces of the wood for 10 or 15 mins in the molten wax fat or what ever your using take out and let cool
this stuff burns like stink but it needs a flame to start (not much of one a couple of secs on a flame)
ive boiled water in less than 1 1/2 mins with this shit just make sure your water in in a sealed container coz it smokes like shit and taints ya water