Visco Safety Fuse

jca21

jca21

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well guys, havent posted in a very long time (school and work have been eating up my time).

i was doing some cleaning and found some visco safety fuse lying around in an old army ammo box which i use to store my knife cleaning/sharpening kit.

i took out the visco safety fuse, took a few inches and cut it. after i coiled the bottom few inches and left the rest standing straight.

i went outside and found some dead standing timber.

chopped it down with my kershaw outcast.
and made feather sticks using my good ol spyderco endura.

i placed the coiled end of the safety fuse, into the middle of the feathers and lit the other end with a strike anywhere match.

instantaneous fire. no joke. it was quicker then you can say "encyclopedia britannica".

thought i'd share this tid-bit with you guys.

might be an interesting way to light a fire in the wild.

cheers,

jca
 
Coldwood said:
What is safety fuse, what's it used for? Sounds like it might be hard to find.
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It's a, well, a fuse.

It is designated "safety" because the process by which it is manufactured insures that it has a controlled burn rate. 28 seconds per inch or something like that.

People use them for rocketry, model cannons, etc.

You can get it at hobby stores.
 
when you take a small piece of dryer lint and add it to the coil. a spark from a firesteel seems to light it well.
 
It's the standard, typically green color fuse. You normally see it sticking out of larger fireworks. It's called safety-fuse because it has a cosntant burn rate, unlike firecracker fuses that can "burn up" real fast, or real slow.

I've got about 100' of it. or so (don't ask why).

Outside of pyro-technique supply house that has $100 minimum orders,
Here is a good place to acquire it:
http://www.galleria-e.com/cgi-bin/Colemans.storefront/en/product/110401
 
yes the stuff is water-resistant. i have the grey kind although the most common kind is the green kind.

the grey kind i have feels like wire covered in the material.
 
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