What Are Other Non-conventional Ways To Create Fire?

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  1. Maria_C

    Maria_C New Member
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    I can say I only know of the two most common, which are matches and a lighter using compressed gas. What other ways can someone create fire easily. Thanks.
     
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  2. Keith H.

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    I would say the most sustainable way that is relatively easy is flint, steel & tinderbox.



     
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  3. Bishop

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    Cotton ball and rust


     
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  4. lonewolf

    lonewolf Societal Collapse Survivalist. Staff Member
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    spectacles or a magnifying glass-you need a sunny day for these.
    wire wool and a battery.
     
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  5. Morgan101

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    A nine volt battery and steel wool will work the same way, but here is a link using a AA battery and a chewing gum wrapper.

     
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  6. coffee

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    cotton ball smeared with vaseoline, chap stick, bag of any chips
     
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  7. TMT Tactical

    TMT Tactical The Great Lizard ! Staff Member
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    Good post Morgan101. I have a ton of both these items. I will not lack for fire.
     
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    nuke/napalm/volcano/carbq/lightning/kids/
     
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    Well I have found a well made fire piston to be long lasting and easy to use.
     
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  10. TMT Tactical

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    In California, that would be PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) just ask all those folks that got burned out in the last big forest fire.
     
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    @Bishop: Have you ever tried the cotton ball friction method using charcoal dust?
    It seems like that would be ideal.
     
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  15. TexDanm

    TexDanm Shadow Dancer
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    Ways to make fire...
    Book Matches
    Kitchen Matches
    Stormproof Matches
    Strike Anywhere Small Matches
    Ferrocerium rods
    Magnesium/ferrocerium blocks
    Flint and Steel
    Battery and Steel Wool
    Battery and foil
    Magnifying lens
    Fire Piston
    Bow and Drill
    Fire plow
    Chemical reactions
    Can you think of any other ways?
     
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  16. Bishop

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    Yes I have wood ash rust powder coffee creamer fine saw dust char cloth powder magnesium powder aluminum.
     
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  17. Morgan101

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    Some of these seem like a whole lot of work, and if you didn't have a match or a lighter why would you ever have the materials required, but I thought it might be interesting.

     
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  18. TexDanm

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    Things to catch and fuel you spark or ember

    Jute Twine (Unwound and Fluffed)
    Char Cloth
    Toilet paper or Kleenex
    Steel Wool
    Cotton ball
    Greased Cotton ball
    Gause
    Dryer Lint
    Cattail Fluff (Dry)
    Birch Bark (Shredded)
    Saw Dust
    Cotton rope or string (Unwound and fluffed)
    Spanish Moss (Dead and Dry)
    Punk wood
    Pine Bark
    Some fungus
    Fat Wood (Very Fine shavings or scrapings)

    I make a sort of pompom bundle and use jute as the cord to keep my ferrocerium rods and scrapers together. That way I have everything together to start my fire.

    I make char cloth and char rope from a cotton rope for my use with flint and steel and store it together in a metal tinder box.

    A small roll of toilet paper is a great thing to have for several reasons. With a Feroceriumrode it works as well as char cloth Charmin actually makes rolls for camping that have no cardboard roll in the middle allowing to be a lot smaller than a regular roll of toilet paper. It is in a plastic dispenser and is a must-have in all of my bug out bags.
     
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