#1301080 - 04/23/09 09:22 AM
Easiest firestarter and cheapest
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CoastieHunter
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1. 9v battery
2. steel wool
Learned this in boyscouts years ago. Since then I've used it millions of times and always carry it in my pack. Easily packed, and it's a cool thing to show people that don't believe.
How to do it (very simple):
Touch two prongs of battery to the steel wool.... thats it!
Easiest thing to do is gather dry kindling and wrap it around the steel wool. Bada bing bada boom... fire!
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#1301096 - 04/23/09 09:30 AM
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#1301528 - 04/23/09 02:25 PM
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#1301589 - 04/23/09 03:02 PM
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there's another that might be as cheap. If you were in scouts you remember the hot spark flint and steel kits. I picked up a new one at the scout office in knoxville. It wasn't very much at all.
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#1302347 - 04/23/09 10:26 PM
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I've got to try this...
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#1302455 - 04/24/09 01:03 AM
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a bic lighter would be alot easier. wouldnt it be easier to carry a lighter than carry a battery and steel wool around for survival? and cheaper. batterys are expensive these days a good ole bic $1.50
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#1302520 - 04/24/09 06:29 AM
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You can break a bic, or the bic can break, one or the other.
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#1302608 - 04/24/09 07:43 AM
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Here's my thing. Hell yea I ALWAYS HAVE A LIGHTER. (smoker) BUT... for whatever reason it gets wet, runs out of fluid, breaks I don't wanna be screwed.
The battery/steel wool will always work until the battery is dead. But I've never had a dead battery.
Flint is nice but you have to sit there and strike it until you get a good spark on a good kindling. The steel wool/battery will send red hot electricity throughout the wires in the steel wool and be a guaranteed fire starter. It's never failed me. :fact
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#1302641 - 04/24/09 08:40 AM
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Here's my thing. Hell yea I ALWAYS HAVE A LIGHTER. (smoker) BUT... for whatever reason it gets wet, runs out of fluid, breaks I don't wanna be screwed.
The battery/steel wool will always work until the battery is dead. But I've never had a dead battery.
Flint is nice but you have to sit there and strike it until you get a good spark on a good kindling. The steel wool/battery will send red hot electricity throughout the wires in the steel wool and be a guaranteed fire starter. It's never failed me. :fact
All good as long as you remember to keep a fresh battery with you.......................I have never had my flint or steel run out of juice, fluid...........works wet/dry. I also carry a Magnesium block & striker, also works wet/dry and burns very hot.
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