Great easy fire starting tip.

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Great easy fire starting tip.; Something to have in emergency bag?
Topic Started: Mar 8 2008, 11:45 AM (302 Views)
renegade	Mar 8 2008, 11:45 AM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 885 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jan 24, 2008	Here is a great tip I found at another forum. Keep a 9 volt battery in a sealed plastic bag and in a separate plastic sealed bag keep a pad of steel wool. Don't use an S.O.S. or any other soap coated steel wool for this purpose. Just plain steel wool. If you are stranded unpack the 9 volt battery and the steel wool. Collect tinder such as dry grass toilet paper, dryer lint or anything dry. Now rub the two contacts of the 9 volt battery against the steel wool and it will glow red hot and add your tinder to it and blow on it. Pretty much an instant fire! Be careful not to burn your fingers though as it heats up quick.



Final	Mar 8 2008, 02:39 PM Post #2
Salvelinus namaycush Posts: 1,092 Group: Admins Member #11 Joined: Jan 31, 2008	This works, I showed my boys this trick, "to tweek it take some of the steel wool and lightly twist together like a real wool strand only thinner and touch the ends to + - with the middle being under the tinder, an even thinner one of 2-3 strands will light your smokes as well. "Great tip thanks Renegade".



oldfisher	Mar 8 2008, 05:09 PM Post #3
Larvae Posts: 8 Group: Regular Member Member #67 Joined: Feb 4, 2008	Good idea. Didn't know that.



bigugly	Nov 27 2008, 06:49 AM Post #4
Larvae Posts: 12 Group: Regular Member Member #111 Joined: Mar 12, 2008	USe to use that in scouts but had saw dust mixed in with the steel wool. Man it went up in a hurry, you litterally had to stick the combo under your tinder pile. Faster than matches...lol



chevy man	Dec 9 2008, 06:19 PM Post #5
Walleye Posts: 837 Group: Global Moderators Member #14 Joined: Jan 31, 2008	thats an very good tip, works very well under bad condition also.



Rob from Sudbury	Jan 8 2009, 01:28 AM Post #6
Larvae Posts: 9 Group: Regular Member Member #155 Joined: Oct 15, 2008	Yes - good survival tip Also starts many house fires - people put loose ones into a box or drawer with other items and before you know it you have a fire. I found one in a drawer at my house and it was so hot, I had to pick it up with a cloth. I heard of garbage fires because of these 9v 's They can be dangerous with both posts at the same end Be careful



spent	Feb 17 2009, 04:53 AM Post #7
Larvae Posts: 10 Group: Regular Member Member #119 Joined: Mar 25, 2008	This is a excellent tip and not a hard one to forget.......



crisop	Mar 25 2009, 09:38 AM Post #8
Administrator Posts: 717 Group: Admins Member #7 Joined: Jan 31, 2008	it has to be steel wool, SOS pads won't work. i've done it and have both in the boat kit just incase



Shedherder	May 9 2009, 04:53 PM Post #9
Bass Posts: 360 Group: Top Users Member #13 Joined: Jan 31, 2008	Great Tip Thanks



GET R DONE	Jun 29 2009, 01:32 AM Post #10
Fishin' for Loch Ness Posts: 817 Group: Global Moderators Member #12 Joined: Jan 31, 2008	Great tip, thanks for sharing.



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