Waterproof match case?

Chip,
Try LL Bean, Campmor, Cabellas Etc... they all have web sites. BTW While at this thread does anyone know where you can get any of those strike anywhere matches like "Ohio Blue Tips"? Not those silly hurricane matches that cost an arm and leg for a dozen!!!
 
Cabelas has the heavy duty brass and aluminum ones in there cataloge. You can probally get them from there website at www.cabelas.com Also if you go to a Boy Scout supply place they have metal one they are not very thick but nice none the less. For strike anywhere matches try http://www.diamondbrands.com/ Hope this helps.


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I'm always amazed when I see these posts about 'strike anywhere' matches!
Seems to be a right coast problem ... I can get them everywhere here in Idaho. Three 250-count boxes of the large kitchen matches for just over a buck.


Mike ( just rubbing it in ...
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No matter what you do, some things will work out.
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This site sells strike anywhere kitchen matches, but only by the case- probably be a last resort:
http://www.y2kmatches.com/


The Wal-Mart where I live doesn't sell them but one grocery store does. I read some stuff in other forums on matches. UPS charges a 13 dollar hazmat (hazardous materials) fee, which could keep small stores from stocking them. This fee also applies to flares. Also the fire codes in some states may require special warehouses or something, and the big chains just don't want to spend the money.

As far as I know matches last a long time if stored properly (cool and dry). I've used kitchen matches that were many years old and they worked fine. I may put some away in a GI ammo can. If they did ignite they would smother themselves out inside the can.

These sites have matchcases-matchsafes-matchholders or whatever you want to call it:
http://www.scoutstuff.org/
http://www.rei.com/
http://www.campmor.com/

A lot of army surplus stores have plastic GI ones, in attractive army green. That's where I got mine.

By the way, I keep matches in a bottle in my glovebox. Something I picked up from my grand dad. He used an aspirin bottle, I used an Advil bottle.

bill


 
Hi Chip,

I just bought a blaze Orange plastic matchbox from Coghlan's and it has a watertight seal (tested it overnight) for about a $1.50.
It's light weight and as far as I can see strongly build.
Added to it is a 3/4" piece of flint glued to the bottom of the match case.

Cheers,

Bagheera

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You can often pick up strike anywhere matches at gunshows. I've also found them in hardware stores and local grocery stores around recreation areas. Sometimes they can be hard to find.

Silva has a nice matchsafe out. Aluminum or brass, with a small compass in the cap. They cost around $18.

You could also check out this place.
http://www.survivalunlimited.com/fire.htm

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Hoodoo

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I just use a 35mm film canister. They are free (or $4 with a free roll of film, depending on how you look at it), watertight, and only require you cut a bit off the end of the matchstick to make it fit. Also has room for a little tinder (dryer lint, etc.).

Bruce Woodbury
 
Chip, Mike, Bill:

Thanks for the heads up on the matches. Haven't tried True Value but will look. About a dollar a box of 250 sounds about what they should be.

Your right about the right coast, someone might do something stupid. Sooooo lets not sell them, yah that will fix it.
 
Matchsafe!!! Now that is a word I have not heard in a long time!

For you Pepsi Generation, Gen X'r's etc., in the late 1800 early 1900's, all matches (called 'lucifers' due to the high sulfer content in early matches) were strike anywhere. To prevent one's matches from going off in one's pocket, one carried them in a matchsafe.

I have an absolutely gorgeous one, made of sterling silver, and with Baccus, the God of wine, and clusters of grapes in high relief. It would hold about 8 or 10 matches. The bottom is serrated and slightly concave for striking the matches.

It is a family heirloom. Walt
 
The 35mm film can is a good idea. How did we ever get along without those? I have a single film canister that is aluminum with a screw top lid- from the early 70s, I think.

When I was a kid I carried loose kitchen matches in my pocket. Never had a fire, but I have heard of it happening.

Once I made up some packets with a vacuum sealer with 2 or 3 matches in each packet. I was just playing around with the new gadget.

Walt, if you do a search on 'match safe' you'll find lots of them. Hot collector's item, I guess. Ebay has lots of them too.

bill

 
I have seen the mention, in this thread and an earlier one discussing matches, that self-strike matches are considered hazardous to store or ship. Is this because they could vibrate against each other and light, chemical reaction, or heat might cause them to ignite? Does anyone have the details?

I stored a small handful in a Boy Scout match safe for about 30 years. The tips have disintegrated. I like this match safe, reasonably sturdy and not too heavy. I’ll have to check the seal. Once you have unscrewed the top, it opens like one of those old time straw dispensers, you pull up and the bottom comes up too, raising the matches.

I have handled the Silva match safe/compass combo mentioned above. It is certainly well made if that equals heavy. I just found it felt too heavy; rather save the weight for a ferrocerium rod. The compass does not have degrees, in fact, I only recall N, S, E, & W. Perhaps this is to make a quick look easier?, but I would prefer a few markings to remind me. Of course if Hoodoo remembers the price right, that might have stopped me from buying it too!
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Hi Nimrod,

That's a rather expensive matchsafe wouldn't you think
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I use a $1.50 Orange plastic one (made in China but what isn't today
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) you can take a peek at it at:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/Thumbnail?u=130364&a=1351641&p=28007856&Width=100&Height=100&Sequence=0

Or if that doidn't work just go through my "Survival items" photopoint page, it's way down at:
<a href="http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=130364&a=1351641">
See my photos of Survival Items at PhotoPoint</a>


Cheers,

Bagheera

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This may not apply to what you own, but I have found several of the imported (China, Korea) match containers, one metal, two o.d. plastic and one orange plastic, to be less than waterproof. Slipping on a rubber instead of vinyl O-ring sealed the plastic ones. Also the plastic snap top 35mm containers did not work for me, as the lids would sometimes come off while inside the backpack.

BTW, I further waterproof my matches by dipping the heads in paraffin.
 
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