Fire Starting Kit and "Punky Wood."

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Jamesey1981
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Re: Fire Starting Kit and "Punky Wood."

Post by Jamesey1981 »

Nothing wrong with a turboflame, I would agree with others and have another ordinary lighter that's easier on gas as well though, a bic or something similar weighs nothing anyway.
Turboflame style lighters are really handy sometimes, and they're great if you need to light hexamine, can be a struggle to get them going with a normal lighter and you need to scruff them up a bit, then you get bits all over your hands, and if it's really windy a turboflame is a nice thing to have too.
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Re: Fire Starting Kit and "Punky Wood."

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Gotta agree - Bic lighters. Or Clipper if you fancy something more showy.

On a side note, we were camping last week. Showed the boy (now 9) how to light a fire using birch bark tinder, feathersticks, and larger kindling. Got it going with one spark from a Bic. Proud dad moment.

Gave him my second-best Camper SAK when we got back, he showed he could be trusted with it.
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Re: Fire Starting Kit and "Punky Wood."

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just chipping in, dunk swan vesta's in melted wax, leave to dry, also I have a antibacterial gel that's flammable. duel purpose, hand sanitization and fire lighting, hope this helps "H"
Im just hoping for the best and preparing for the worse.

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Re: Fire Starting Kit and "Punky Wood."

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Mortblanc wrote:If you are an urban dweller and do not want the bulk of carrying cotton balls soaked in PJ then get a couple of alcahol wipes in the little packages to carry in your wallet. They also catch a spark or flame and burn long enough to get a good fire started.
ooh...good call!! I've used alcohol gel before but never thought to use the alcohol wipes. I've got a giant pack of prep wipes that I use for disinfecting things (like my phone) that have expired and I was about to chuck them out so instead I took one in the garden and voila! It burns for about 10 seconds then the alcohol is used up, but that's enough to get other kindling going. Awesome! :D
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Re: Fire Starting Kit and "Punky Wood."

Post by dazthechippy »

just reading thread this and thought I'd pop down to the bike shop to see if they have any old inner tubes from repairs, i know it costs them ££'s to dump them so they're bound to just give them away right ??.

I too remember the inner tube thing from combat survival back in the 80's

what about puncture repair kits?, they've got rubber patches in and a vulcanised rubber glue- that'd probably burn

just found a large stash of elastic bands - im turning into a pyromaniac...

wellies, marigolds, anything with rubber in it, must be loads of stuff you could use as an urban survivor, no bike shops in the bush...

oh dear sounding like a fetish thing, off for a lie down.