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Cheap Homemade Firestarter Kit
You can also put a small piece of sandpaper in there instead of the striker strip from the side of the matchbox. You know, in case you’re making a bunch of these and run out of strikers.
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Posted by Dave on 11/21 at 08:31 PM [link]Every time I look at these sort of things I end up packing several Bic lighters in a ziploc bag instead. They’re cheap, compact and reliable.
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I also have a few dozen lighters spread around in various bugout bags, as well as one of those big pistol-grip barbecue lighters. They’re excellent firestarters to have on hand. FWIW, the advantage of this little kit is that is has fire and tinder in the same container.
Posted by Greg on 11/24 at 10:03 AM [link]Ingredients:
Dryer lint (I hear that an alternative is corrugated cardboard, but I have not tried that).
Petroleum jelly.
Cat-food or tuna can.
Strike-anywhere matches.
Small zip-lock bag or aluminum foil.
Melt petroleum-jelly in a microwave and pour over dryer lint. Cut/tear into strips the width of the cat food can (~2”) and coil into cat food can, on top of bagged/wrapped matches. Result is a waterproof “stove” that will burn for hours.
This works great with the Boy-Scouts.
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