DIY Compact Survival Kit

Step 2 Fishing Line.

Fishing line can be very useful. It is strong, small and cheap. I suggest using 20 pound line or higher.

What you are going to do is wind several meters of fishing line onto the grip of a Bic pen.

To do this simply, make a loop at the end of the fishing line.
Then take the grip of the pen off the pen.
Then tie the loop to the middle of the grip of the pen.
Start to wind the fishing line around the grip until you feel you have enough fishing line.
Cut the line leaving about 1 foot at the end.
Put the end through the middle of the grip a few times, to prevent it from unraveling.

You now have a fair amount of fishing line that will go into your kit.

Comments

[DixieGeek]

I use dental floss. Its strong, lightweight and comes in its own small packaging.

[badwooki]

ive been saying same thing ... put a curved sewing needle or any needle in case with floss

[chaderoo2]

Dental floss for what?

[PINKmonster325]

I used dental floss for tying down my tent in a windstorm. (it worked, fyi)

[DixieGeek]

Anything where you need a piece of strong piece of string. Sewing up rips and tears, whipping the ends of rope, shoe laces, I've even used it repair my glasses when the lenses fell out on a camping trip. Oh, it also is good for cleaning between your teeth. :-)

[Arano]

also, you can use it to escape prison... some prisoners gathered all dental floss the were able to get and made ropes out of it do get down the walls ;)

[TheInventor1997]

it takes a long tome though

[paulzer02]

Ahhh... make that the third picture; where you're holding the "grip of a Bic pen". I don't mean to be a pain, but is this just the bottom half of a ball-point pen; as in any ball-point pen? And if so, did you cut off the pointy-end to the length you wanted? Just curious.

[paulzer02]

You really need to learn how to focus a camera. I have no idea what is being shown in the second "fishing line" picture.