fire piston fun!!

[MORIMOTOM]

After looking on ebay, I've decided I want to get an aluminum one and also one like MORIMOTOM has......... if I can find one.

There are some really nice ones out there for sure.......



Robbie Roberson

the guy i bought mine from had several i think. ill check the listing again and post the info.

 

[richard j]

i think i'll have to make myself one just so i can see it work. i'll probably use stainless though.

 

[MIKE MACINTOSH]

http://www.firepistons.com/catalog.0.html HELLO ALL. This is the place I bought mine from,He has a large selection.the new tinderlite model's look interesting, might just have to pick one to try out.

 

[syrinx]

WOW! firepiston forgotten "tech" the neatist thing since peanut butter,reminds me of the baghdad lightbulb.

 

[Blue Sky]

OK, I officially take back all my scornful (and uneducated) thoughts about fire pistons and their utility. Those things are awesome, the videos made a believer out of me.

 

[fudo]

WOW! firepiston forgotten "tech" the neatist thing since peanut butter,reminds me of the baghdad lightbulb.

OK, I'll bite. What is a Baghdad lightbulb?

 

[syrinx]

another forgotten "tech" found in Egypt gliffs,hollowed quarts crystal copper rode cramic base possibly shaken generating light. it's been very hushhush but the truth is there ya just gotta dig for it. no pun intended!

 

[storl]

OK, I'll bite. What is a Baghdad lightbulb?

Yeah, same question here. I can't find any information on it. Is this like a snipe hunt or something?

Edit: I guess he answered the question. Syrinx, got any links to more information on this?

 

[syrinx]

try history or discover channel...?

 

[syrinx]

OK! History.com :modern marvels great Inventions "Electrity" my bad they are calling it the Baghdad battery and its just a breif mention of it. jeezzz talk about suppresion of Ancient "tech"

 

[Esav Benyamin]

There is no actual evidence or artifact of an ancient Egyptian lightbulb.
Baghdad batteries do exist, though, in a different cultural complex.

From Wikipedia:

The Dendera light

Dendera light, showing the single representation on the left wall of the right wing in one of the cryptsHathor Temple has a relief sometimes known as the Dendera light, for a controversial thesis about its nature. The Dendera light images comprises three stone reliefs (one single and a double representation) in the Hathor temple at the Dendera Temple complex located in Egypt. The view of Egyptologists is that the relief is a mythological depiction of a lotus flower, spawning a snake within, representing aspects of Egyptian mythology.[10][11] It has been stated that,

[...the] splendid but enigmatic reliefs of the crypt are cosmogonical and depict the serpent (dualizing principle underlying all creation: In Genesis the separation of heaven and earth) borne aloft by the lotus, the symbol of creation as a manifestation of consciousness.[12]​

In contrast to this interpretation, there is an alternative theory that departs significantly from Egyptology theories in which researchers believe it is a representation of an Ancient Egyptian lightbulb.[13][14][15]

Ancient Egyptian technology
Other developments

Some have suggested that the Egyptians had some form of understanding of the electric phenomena,[22][23] from observing lightning and interacting with electric fish (such as the Malapterurus electricus) or other animals (such as electric eels). Those exploring alternative theories of ancient technology have suggested that there were electric lights used in Ancient Egypt.[24] Engineers have constructed a working model based on the relief and some authors (such as Peter Krassa and Reinhard Habeck) have produced a basic theory of the device's operation.[25] Baghdad batteries, assuming they were galvanic cells, may also have been used but not fully understood.

Baghdad Battery

The Baghdad Battery is the common name for a number of artifacts apparently discovered in the village of Khuyut Rabbou'a (near Baghdad, Iraq) in 1936. These artifacts came to wider attention in 1938, when Wilhelm König, the German director of the National Museum of Iraq, found the objects in the museum's collections, and in 1940 (having returned to Berlin due to illness) published a paper speculating that they may have been galvanic cells, perhaps used for electroplating gold onto silver objects.

((Further information is available at the links.))

 

[task force k]

Wow...I just fell asleep in my chair and woke up with what is probably a goofy idea. I'd like to see a Chris Reeve Knives Aviator or Shadow III with, instead of a hollow handle, a fire piston. Anybody else think this might be a sweet idea or was I still asleep when I thought this was cool?

 

[ashtxsniper]

How about about just putting a small one in the handle then its not permanent. If I hade to choose between fire piston and fire steel I would take fire steel.

 

[storl]

How about about just putting a small one in the handle then its not permanent. If I hade to choose between fire piston and fire steel I would take fire steel.

How about a hollow piston with a firesteel in the middle of it inside a hollow blade handle?

I have a piston on the way and am giddy about it. I do not think it will ever work better than a Bic, but it sure is neat. Right up there with the self starting lighter I have on the way (head over to CPF if you don't know what I'm talking about).

 

[Esav Benyamin]

How about a hollow piston with a firesteel in the middle of it inside a hollow blade handle?

http://www.wildersol.com/Dymondwood.html (fixed the link)

Wilderness Solutions is pleased to offer the new Tinderlite series fire pistons

These modernized fire starters also provide a second fire starting method by means of a micro-ferrocerium rod sheathed within the piston shaft .


How about that?

 

[ashtxsniper]

The link is not valid.

 

[wolfyII]

Here's one you can make for yourself for almost no cost. It ain't pretty, but it works and is ultra-cheap. Kind of a poor man's answer to the highly machined and beautiful pistons out there on the net. Personally, I like it....cheap, ugly, works as well as anything out there and you can do it for yourself. I love thumbin' my beak at the pretty boys.

http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/fire/firepiston/rbmodelt/index.html