Fire Starter

This Fire Starter is a useful addition to your camping kit and can be used in a couple of ways:

i) To light a gas cooking stove from the flame of another.

ii) Getting kindling lite, by cutting off a small piece and placing under the kindling.

The fire starter can easily be extinguished by sliding the tube over the flame.

Supplies

• Cotton rope
• Wax candle
• Beer can
• Packing tap.

Step 1: Making the Tube

• Cut a piece of aluminium sheet from a been can.
• Roll into a tube the diameter of the cotton rope and secure with packing tape.
• Cut a wax candle into small pieces.

If you want instructions on how to make a piece of aluminum sheet from a beer can: Follow step one to make aluminum sheet.

Step 2: Melting the Candle Wax

• Place the candle pieces into a cut down beer can (or similar container), placed into a saucepan containing water. Boil the water. This will melt the wax without damaging your saucepan.
• The can with melted wax may need to held using a stick.
• When the wax has melted, add in a length on cotton rope and leave for about 5 minutes.
• Remove the cotton rope and allow to dry.

Step 3: Completed Fire Starter

• Insert the waxed rope into the aluminum tube.
• The fire starter can now be used.

Step 4: Works Even When Wet

Even after the rope has been immersed in water it will still light.

Comments

[ForestSurvival]

Does it have to be a beer can or can it bee a soda can?

[BevCanTech]

Pretty sure it does and not just any beer, IPA works best :-) . Nar, just joking. Soda can would be fine!

[ForestSurvival]

And does it have to be a cotton rope?

will paracord work?

[BevCanTech]

i haven't tried using a paracord, you could give it a go but I doubt it will work well as it's synthetic and may give off toxic fumes. Best to stay with a cotton rope.

[2403366]

how do we turn it on ?

[BevCanTech]

It is lite using a flame source, such as from a gas cooker which I have used to light another gas cooker.