🔥 Premium Iron Fire Starter Tool – Ultimate Survival & Outdoor Ignition Kit – Waterproof Ferro Rod with Striker 🔥. Includes: Ferro rod, striker, and attached lanyard. ✅Multi-Use Striker Tool – Can be used as a scraper, bottle opener, and mini ruler.
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Put the magnesium rod 45 degree to the ground and the scraper blade vertical to the surface, quickly scraping magnesium rod until sparks burning the dropped magnesium turnings. Scraper Blade Size: Approx.
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2x Survival Paracord Bracelet Survival Kit Fire Starter EDC 8-function Bracelet. Product structure: outdoor lifesaving firestone, high- mini compass, rope cutter, survival whistle and a 3.2m long 7-core umbrella rope.
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BORDERLAND BUSHCRAFT®. • Instruction Card Insert (explaining ferro rod use). FATWOOD KINDLING. EDC POCKET FIRE TIN. FLINT & STEEL TIN - VIKING. Premium Ferrocerium firesteel. Featuring a woodturned handle and leather lanyard with compact striker.
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So when you start you dont get best performance until a scrapping has taken off the outer protective layer. Then you will find with practice and use you will get the best perforance from your rod. With practice and trying different strikers and tinder materials (cotton woll balls work really well & thats the reason you find a tampon in alot of survival kits) you will soon master these rods.
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The more scraped off the better the flint will be exposed and better it will work. Put the rod at 45 degree to the ground and the scraper blade vertical to the surface, quickly scraping(striking) the ferro/magnesium rod until sparks drop down towards the ground.
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This coating needs to be gone before a spark can be created. A general rule of thumb is that you should see a shiny area on the rod/striker where you will scrape. you can use anything from sand paper, stones, a knife, a file.
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This pocket size survival fire starter is an excellent bit of kit! Web-Tex Steel of Fire Mini Model.
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