Homemade Fire Starters

[rumrunner55]

I’ve always used dryer lint shoved in old tp rolls but those are worth gold now sooo

 

[renagadeinjun]

As a young man I had given by a friends dad some cloth bow-tie's he had made soaked in wax........whent home and burnt one and threw the rest of them in a drawer in the garage...........That was as close I have been to a home made fire starter..............I have always used and still Still use lighternaught to this day.

 

[cjnowell72]

Take your dryer lint and stuff it into a toilet paper roll. Put some blocks of gulf wax into a pot and melt it. Put toilet paper rolls vertical and fill with wax. Once you have filled it up it will soak into the cardboard which will make it water proof. Depending on how tight you stuff the rolls they will generally burn for more than 10 min

 

[Medic1957]

We have been making them with dryer lint and wax poured into cardboard egg cartons for a long time. They work great.

 

[JOZ11M]

Sugar rocket candy. Simple ingredients from Lowe's and the grocery store.

Fire

 

[medium187mph]

Get a bag of Frito Lay corn chips... as flammable as dryer lint and holds a flame for a good bit.

 

[Medic535]

I use aluminum powder, iron oxide and start it with a piece of magnesium ribbon, sets wet wood on fire

 

[Uwood52]

I know the ol Cotton balls or rounds in vasoline then dipped in wax but ive been wondering if there was a better accelerant to use. Anyone ever tried making them with Kerosene or diesel fuel before coating with wax?

Random quarantine thoughts i figured id share

Trying to replicate or improve the performance of the Pathfinder Inferno starters
https://www.selfrelianceoutfitters.com/products/mini-inferno

I did one with lamp oil, then wax. Wax never fully cured.

The best I’ve done is soaked in lighter fluid, then wax. I use cotton round disks. Pack them in shoe polish tins that can later make char cloth.

I’ve used them for starting charcoal for the grill many times.

 

[Gimli2]

Anyone tried mixing magnesium shavings in with the tinder before soaking in wax? I want to try it sometime....

 

[Freshly Minted Georgian!]

Yes, you have to have some pretty fine shavings to initially catch plus some larger ones to sustain.