[at-l] Zip Stove starter sticks

[daveh@psknet.com (Dave Hicks)]

I'm no Zip user.  However, I have made and used the same fire starter for
years.

Cut some newspaper in lengths a tad wider than a wooden kitchen match is
long and about eight inches long.

Wrap the paper around a strike-anywhere kitchen match so that the head just
sticks out and tie it in place with some cotton string, leaving about four
to six inches of pigtail.

Once you have made a bunch, melt some wax (old, partly burnt, broken, etc
candles; the saved paraffin from home canned jams & jellies; and as a last
results some blocks of paraffin you buy from the canning segment of your
supermarket.  (For members in GB, our paraffin is a sealing wax, not what
you call paraffin, which we call kerosene.)

Using the string pigtail, dip each match, and paper into the wax,
one-by-one.  Be sure both the match and paper are all covered and that the
paper soaks up some wax.  Set in a box so that they stick together into
small blocks.  You don't want a solid block of them.  Just barely stuck
together, so that they carry as a block with the heads not rubbing against
each other, yet easily to pry a single starter off when needed.

Chainsaw

PS -- Never leave in a car in the sun in the summer.

----- Original Message -----
From: Leslie Booher <lwbooher@halifax.com>
To: Rami <rbenhameda@home.com>
Cc: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Zip Stove starter sticks


> No, it looks more like the firestarter on the left about halfway down the
> page.  Take away the black thing and replace it with a red tip, and you'd
> have something that looks like it.  Where are you finding these sites,
> anyway?!  <G>  anklebear
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rami <rbenhameda@home.com>
> To: 'Leslie Booher' <lwbooher@halifax.com>
> Cc: <at-l@backcountry.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 9:25 PM
> Subject: RE: [at-l] Zip Stove starter sticks
>
>
> >
> > Ok, try this page:
> > http://www.equipped.com/devices28.htm
> >
> > A few lines down on the right is a picture of a bunch of matches
> > etc.
> > Anything there look right?
> >
> > -r
> >
> >
>
>
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