<img src="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/tmp/fcrod-corr2.jpg" align="right">Since matches can, and do, get wet, I carried around a ferrocerium rod in my wallet during my stay in the Solomon Islands.
It didn't quite like that environment. Had I used it every day, the corrosion would have been apparent before it did much damage, and as it is it was still usable every time I wanted to use it. (Yes, you can almost everywhere find something which can be used to start a fire, even though it rains a lot or at least often.)
Of course one shouldn't expect it to be corrosion proof, but still I was surprised at how quickly the surface was affected enough that striking sparks became less easy than normally.
So see this as a note to you all to either keep them dry or at least away from salt water or (as usually do at home) use them often so you don't get a surprise.
<img src="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/tmp/fcrod-corr.jpg">
It didn't quite like that environment. Had I used it every day, the corrosion would have been apparent before it did much damage, and as it is it was still usable every time I wanted to use it. (Yes, you can almost everywhere find something which can be used to start a fire, even though it rains a lot or at least often.)
Of course one shouldn't expect it to be corrosion proof, but still I was surprised at how quickly the surface was affected enough that striking sparks became less easy than normally.
So see this as a note to you all to either keep them dry or at least away from salt water or (as usually do at home) use them often so you don't get a surprise.
<img src="http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/tmp/fcrod-corr.jpg">
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