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.

1. Cotton rope
2. Wax candle
3. Beer can
4. Packing tap.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

I had read that washing machine lint makes for a good fire starter. So, I did a test. I collected some lint then tried to light it - didn't burn that great, so I melted down some tea candles and added in some lint. Took a while for the lint candles to catch alight. Using the wicks which came with the candles worked better. So, in conclusion paraffin wax will help you light a fire but use a few normal wicks rather than relying on washing machine lint. Can't believe everything you see is social media.