Weird Firestarting Idea

Pritch

Pritch

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Okay, I'll admit that this is probably evidence of a brain tumor, but I was thinking the other day about thos toy ray guns I had as a kid, back in the sixties.

You know the ones, you pulled the trigger and it spun a wheel, throwing a shower of sparks, which sadly, were contained in the transparent body of the toy.
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So my question is, why couldn't you just cut a hole in the plastic and direct a plentiful shower of sparks onto your tinder?

All right! All right! I know the thing is too big, and any passerby would be duty bound to smack you if he saw you trying to start a fire this way, but couldn't this serve as the basis for a new firestarting tool? (Hopefully not smackworthy!)

Okay, I'll go take my meds now!

-- FLIX
 
hahaha, it would have to through more sparks. but at first, I thought you were going to tell us to start using ray guns.
 
Now if you could get the sparks to come out the end of the barrel, that would be cool.
Just whip out your spark gun and fire it into your tinder :)
 
The hell with sparks, just set the thing on maximum and flash cook the next bunny that hops your way. :D
 
I was thinking the other day of some wy to make a trigger type mechanism to scrape sparks off my flint rod, your idea is an outside the box one for sure.
 
In my limited experience the flint/wheel sparks aren't that hot, it may be easy to get a lot of sparks but...
 
Or, if you are going to carry around a hunk of plastic: a disposable lighter is nifty!
 
Bring along an Aussie friend (who has one of these)
Dries wet tinder, too.

"You call that a lighter? THIS is a lighter!"

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Reminds me of an old Star Trek episode where the away team was stuck on a really cold planet. For warmth, they put the phasers on "stun" and heated up boulders.

But that's just one more thing to break or lose. Too bad Starfleet doesn't teach it's cadets how to rub two sticks together. ;)
 
I've thought the same thing. when i was testing me kids toys out.like if i didn't have a light or if i could find one in town that was broken.good things too think about fire making. do you think about fire making when playing w/ toys?
 
Those things throw pretty low-temp sparks as I recall, but you might be able to disassemble the mechanism and upgrade the flint/striker assembly thingie. (sorry for the technical jargon)
 
QUOTE=bulgron: Reminds me of an old Star Trek episode where the away team was stuck on a really cold planet. For warmth, they put the phasers on "stun" and heated up boulders.

But that's just one more thing to break or lose. Too bad Starfleet doesn't teach it's cadets how to rub two sticks together.

WE DO! :D
 
I'm not sure about you guys, but I have always wanted to spray/shoot butane gas through a zippo lighter flame. That's how I want to start a fire. Of course, I've always been rather scared that it would travel backwards and blow up the metal butane can and i'd essentially ruin my hand. That wouldn't be good for guitar playing.
 
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