Gunnersdad49
WKR
I have used a lot of fire starters and always come back to Vaseline soaked cotton balls. They compress really small, weigh nothing, and take a spark from a Ferro rod great if you pull them apart. They are impervious to water.
the biggest downside to me was making them. My hands always came out like a teenager with his first dirty magazine.
today I bought “cotton rounds” from the makeup area at Walmart, and tried them. I laid them out on tinfoil, dropped a dollop of petroleum jelly on them with a butter knife, and put them in the oven at 175 for 10 minutes.
worked great, no mess, no cleanup, and they burn great. This is about a quarter of one, sparked with one spark from a bic lighter.
I put them in a zip lock bag and 15 of them are about 1.5” high and 2” wide.
the biggest downside to me was making them. My hands always came out like a teenager with his first dirty magazine.
today I bought “cotton rounds” from the makeup area at Walmart, and tried them. I laid them out on tinfoil, dropped a dollop of petroleum jelly on them with a butter knife, and put them in the oven at 175 for 10 minutes.
worked great, no mess, no cleanup, and they burn great. This is about a quarter of one, sparked with one spark from a bic lighter.
I put them in a zip lock bag and 15 of them are about 1.5” high and 2” wide.