Cheap Fire Starters!

Here is how to make some really cheap fire starters, for camping, hiking, or just to make a fire!
You'll need:

An Egg Carton
Wax (an old candle)

(These are optional but your fire starter will work better with them)

Dryer Lint
Saw Dust
Twine

Step 1 Melting Your Wax

First, melt your candle in a pot you wont mind getting ruined. (Melted wax is really hard to remove.)
Then you can put some saw dust, lint, and rope into each shell (you don't need all of them)

Comments

[fragmaster4]

REAL Napalm DOES explode. And actually real napalm will react with air. (It kinda explodes / burns)

[teamsharp]

these are the longest lasting fire starters. They are easy to light also. Make these and you will no longer take a hour to start a campfire or fireplace fire.

[fidjit]

Tried this with dryer lint and an old soy wax candle and it worked great. 

[bloke2022]

rubber bands are useful, they go up in flame easily. stinky though.

[bears0]

 just soak it in water and it should come off if its glass, im not sure about metal

[Schooniedude]

Sweet! Can you use styrofoam egg cartons?

[Emsaid]

Um, Well burning Styrofoam is illegal so i wouldn't recommend it but you could try, it would probably melt

[sharlston]

why is it illegal?

[edfel01]

if mixed right with a few household ingrediants u can make home made napalm.... BOOM = BAD

[korgoth25]

and what are those few household ingrediants

[edfel01]

gas and soap... styrafoam and gas just make a LONG lasting fire starter....its an excellent fire starter but its not napalm

[franklinonline]

 Burning stryofoam isnt illegal. It probably just burns nasty, lots of black nasty smoke and smells. And napalm isnt explosive. It just burns and sticks

[Father Christmas]

gasoline...

[Emsaid]

i dont know exactly why but the smoke can be toxic

[Schooniedude]

ohhhhhhh... is it in the US that its illegal?

[Emsaid]

yeah but you can pretty much get away with it..

[WanderingOak]

Sounds like a great idea. Having worked with melted wax in the past, a cheap flea market double-boiler would probably be a good idea. Anybody try mixing the sawdust in with the melted wax in the pot, or would that just make a mess and be too had to pour?

[somerandomguy]

To get rid of the cartons lid you can rip it into small pieces and put that among with the saw dust in the cells before pouring the wax

[geodez]

i read about these somewhere this guy called them a "gnik."

[lord voldamort]

I found that a cotton ball is a very affective firestarter if you fluff it up. Also,I was trying out a firestarter from ultimate survival technologies called the sparkie. I used it with a knife on a cotton ball in a Altoids tin and was surprised that it caught fire so quickly. I slammed the lid down on it and stared at the sparkie, still in my hand.

[sharlston]

can i light these using a spark thing from a lighter

[Emsaid]

yes if you make some dryer lint sticking out of the top.

[pie popper]

love it!