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Re: Friction fire starting
Alan Wolfson (alanw@MDLI.COM)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:43:16 -0400
At 09:49 AM 4/11/99 -0500, Len Christiansen wrote:
>MCCET wrote:
>>
>> A really neat and useful package for survival kits can be made of a little
>> baggie of dryer lint and a 1.50 scout flint sparker.(leave out the striker
>
>Just make sure that your pocket knife is not stainless steel. If it is
>carry another high carbon, hardened steel striker.
... and make sure that the dryer lint you have collected is from natural
fibers like cotton (jeans, towels, etc.) Lint from man-made materials like
nylon and polyester will melt rather than burn.
Yours in Scouting,
Alan
Alan Wolfson
Boy Scout Roundtable Commissioner
Arrowhead District, Daniel Webster Council, Nashua, NH
I used to be a bear (NE-CS-36) and a fox (NE-I-184) too!
Also Co-Leader GSUSA, Cadette/Senior Troop 2126
Older girl consultant, Nashua Service Unit GSUSA
E-mail: mailto:alanw@mdli.com
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