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    Quote Originally Posted by gunslinger80 View Post
    I know a piece of steel wool (sos pad) and a "D" battery will start a fire.
    I've never tried, or seen a D battery work this way, a 9V battery will because the postive and negative are so close together.

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    If your lucky, you may be able to find a flint rock and use a knife or similar to create sparks to ignite tinder...

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    When using the bow & drill method, make sure the drill is made from a hardwood, oak, maple, cherry. Then the base board, where the drill contacts to generate the heat, needs to be a softwood, pjne, poplar, hemlock. The hardwood drill will build heat quickly and wear the v-notch down and form a hot pile of residue. This all needs to be worked out onto a very fine pile of tinder like a cotton ball with petroleum jelly, or dryer lint. As soon as the enbers hits, start blowing gently to bring this up to a flame.

    When making the v notch, don't cut to deep, you only want enough space for the bot material being generated by the drill to trickle out onto the tinder. One other thing to remember,this is one of the most labot intensive methods there are if your not super good at it and can make it happen quickly.

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    Good tips. I'll try again one day.

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    For me it's an ongoing thing. One time it works ok, next time not at all.

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    Alternate fire making methods



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    and another...
    Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
    Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

    Cat's are food... not friends!

    If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.

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    Alternate fire making methods

    shit! I have a 1/2 dozen others... but it won't let me...

    grrr

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    another...

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    another...
    Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
    Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

    Cat's are food... not friends!

    If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.

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    I don't know why, but when I reply to post (even advanced) it thinks I am editing my previous, and error-ing me out, saying I am posting 2 videos in the same post
    ???

    wtf?
    Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
    Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

    Cat's are food... not friends!

    If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.

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    Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
    Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

    Cat's are food... not friends!

    If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.

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    Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
    Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

    Cat's are food... not friends!

    If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.

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