Maker Tin

Step 9 Matches + Striker

Fire is always useful... and cool.

The altoids tin can easily take a normal sized match, but if you have the extra-long versions just trim them down with some scissors or a knife.

I have six matches in a bundle, and have secured them together with an elastic band.

Steps for the match striker:
1 - Take the match tray out
2 - Cut a 5cm long section out
3 - Glue to the lid of your tin
4 - Test :)

Note -
Fire can kill - BE CAREFUL
If you are young then get your parents to help you out

Comments

[KittyF]

I used to hear of those strike anywhere matches lighting in someone's pocket from rubbing together.  I'd turn the head's opposite each other or dip each in wax to protect them.  FWIW, Kitty

[ClockworkDragonfly]

A small tube (such as a cut down pen or thin marker body) that can be capped to act as a separate container for the matches would be a nice addition for a nominal waste of space. The reason I sat that is the tin is not watertight (though neither would be the tube) but the extra layer of water resistance would be nice depending on where you travel with your kit.

[mowie]

once i put some normal matches in a pen tube and i have no idea how but once day my pocket felt really hot so i took it out and all the matches had lit by themselfs and they wer not strike anywhere matches

[clarsen]

i recall taking a drinking straw, 1. melt one end shut (clamp with needle nose pliers and heat with a small flame for couple of seconds), 2. insert your matches, 3. cut straw to size with a little left to allow sealing. 4. clamp the open end shut with pliers 5. heat with a flame for a couple of seconds to seal should provide a nicely sealed compact container. Don't worry too much -- just a little -- about heating the straw with the matches inside. you're applying the heat on the other side of the pliers and that should be far enough away from flame and shielded by heat absorbing metal pliers.

[Colonel88]

Cool container and nice idea. This is very similar to Pixy Stix which is powder in a straw (basically). You could also smuggle heroin or something in this... You didn't hear this from me...

[ClockworkDragonfly]

I'd probably err on the side of caution and heat the ends of the straw indirectly (like with one of those resistance wire chip-bag sealers), but that is a far better method as far as space in the tin is concerned.

[Jerimiah40]

I'd recommend putting the matches all the same way, then wrapping the strike end in some tin foil, that way there's absolutely no way for them to accidentally strike. Unlikely, I know, but stranger things have happened.

[=SMART=]

hmm, good idea but if you think about how you light a match, you drag it along the striker hard and fast,which creates the massive friction and the heat, in the tin the matches cannot move very much and so definitely wont be able to strike themselves. EVEN if they did catch, because the lid would be closed, the oxygen would be very limited and it would go out almost instantly.