Comments on: The Steel Wool & 9 Volt Battery Firestarter

By: ancient dragon

ancient dragon — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:34:50 +0000

The 9-volt battery is not required. A flint and steel will suffice, as long as the steel wool is a finer grade.

By: hilljohnny

hilljohnny — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:00:05 +0000

an easy to make tinder is cotton balls smeared with vaseline. work the jelly into the cotton balls and store in a baggie. carry several cheap, flint type, butane disposable lighters. don’t throw away an empty though. if you remove the metal shield from an empty lighter the spark from the flint will easily light a fluffed up cotton ball with petroleum jelly on it. the cotton ball and jelly combo will usually burn for several minutes.

By: LionofJudah

LionofJudah — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:55:41 +0000

Pencil shavings. Excellent and free. fire starter, to use with the lint. the wood can last a bit longer. mix the 2 is good. Seal individual packets in cellophane. You can even reuse cigarette cellophanes just use more than one. The wood shaving make it wok a lot better.

By: LibertyEagle

LibertyEagle — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:06:46 +0000

Yeah – you want to carry a trifecta in separate thin plastic sandwich bags.
1. Fine steel wool
2. 9v battery or other power source above 6v
3. Dryer lint – lots of it.

The dryer lint can be stashed in a medicine bottle and compressed in a major way. This will insure you have something dry and flammable to sit atop the steel wool for it to light your kindling.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:51:54 +0000

I’d imagine it’d be pretty important to keep the two separated if packed in the same bag.

I can see someone’s day getting ruined pretty quick if the two were to touch.

By: hermitjim

hermitjim — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:27:03 +0000

Hey, this is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing this information…