NightCap wrote:Yep, I'll take those ideas. Never know when they will come in handy. Thanks :)
Starting A Fire Without Matches:
-- Flint and steel with charcloth
-- Magnifying glass and tinder
-- 9-volt transistor battery and #0000 steel wool
-- Magnifying glass and #0000 steel wool
-- Bow drill and fireboard
-- Fire piston (pressure ignition)
-- Iron pyrite and quartz-bearing rock
-- Bamboo saw
-- Coke can and chocolate (parabolic reflector)
-- Glass gallon bottle full of water, and tinder
-- Big flashlight reflector w/tinder where bulb was
-- Bottom of a bottle, cracked off
-- Fire plow
-- Plastic/Saran “pocket” filled with water to make magnifying lens
-- Binoculars held the “wrong way” with eyepiece towards tinder
-- Fresnel lens from overhead projector
-- Broken transparent light bulb with water in it
-- Stainless steel dish used as parabolic reflector
Potential Darwin Awards:
Under the category of "this could be real hazardous to your health if you're dumb enough to try it":
1. Spontaneous combustion:
-- Kitty litter and Crisco oil
-- Potassium permanganate and glycerine
-- Pool chlorine tabs and brake fluid
2. You might lose your eyebrows when it lights:
-- Gasoline in metal hubcap and 12-volt car battery spark
-- Gasoline/acetone and spark striker
-- Calcium carbide, water, and sparker
3. Deer hunter's delight:
-- Shotgun shell with shot removed, filled with cloth, fired
-- Rifle cartridge, empty powder, fire cartridge at tinder
That's 26.
TIP: Have an ABC fire extinguisher next to you when you practice these. And don't depend on ANY of them to work in the woods, even if you practice. Carry matches and a BIC lighter to start your fires.
--Kerry Cartier, Scoutmaster
Troop 469, Wills Point TX
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