Here's a source for the Boy Scout one. $3.00.
I had a couple of 'grooming' sets that had been given to me. Along with the useful (nail clippers) came with the useless: a stupid little folding knife-like thing. It works great for scraping the magnesium or the striker, and even has a hold in the handle so that it can be attached to the magnesium firestarter with a little bit of cord.
WRT the comments above r.e. cotton balls and vaseline, in my tests the cotton lights easier if you don't get too carried away with the vaseline. My emergency kit contains an old medicine bottle with several heavily coated cotton balls in the bottom, and a lightly coated one on top.
Personally, on using the hand sanitizer, I'd be afraid of using up all the sanitizer, then getting in a situation where I needed an emergency fire! I like the idea of my emergency fire staters being dedicated.
Where do you get a scraper? Well...
I had a couple of 'grooming' sets that had been given to me. Along with the useful (nail clippers) came with the useless: a stupid little folding knife-like thing. It works great for scraping the magnesium or the striker, and even has a hold in the handle so that it can be attached to the magnesium firestarter with a little bit of cord.
WRT the comments above r.e. cotton balls and vaseline, in my tests the cotton lights easier if you don't get too carried away with the vaseline. My emergency kit contains an old medicine bottle with several heavily coated cotton balls in the bottom, and a lightly coated one on top.
Personally, on using the hand sanitizer, I'd be afraid of using up all the sanitizer, then getting in a situation where I needed an emergency fire! I like the idea of my emergency fire staters being dedicated.
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