Q-Tip Fire Starting Torch

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I always have a pack of personal items in my Bug Out Bag, toothbrush etc. Also there are a few Q tips, and some Carmex, these last two work very nicely as fire starters, check it out here. Also see our gear on our website http://wildernessinnovation.com

Tags: Doan,fire,Carmex,Petroleum Jelly,Magnesium,survival,camping,hunting

Video Transcription

a little fire starting exercise here i'm going to use just the dome magnesium out of my wilderness innovation FSK this is the 1 i've had for 30 years now and but i use something a lot of people do the cotton ball thing and all that but i'm going to use something that I carry in my bug-out bag my little have a little personals kid in their toothbrush and dental floss and you know various things some of this and on all that and I'm just going to show you a easy way to start a fire with a dome magnesium and a q-tip now we're going to make a little q-tip torch so here's how you do it right here it's very simple I'm just going to take my down right here and there's a little crevice in the rock right here a little kind of a little depression here and I'm just going to take about know about 20 little scrapes here I'm trying to just keep everything in as kind of in as concentrated as spot as I can something like that right there so you see that little little pile of magnesium all right so now what I'm going to do is I also carry this carmex so just put oral petroleum jelly but it's a medicated but it's good for you know it's good for lips or skin you know even if your nose or ears gets cracking or something like that any of that kind of stuff now I'm going to do is just kind of work it around in here just a little bit okay you notice all I use just a tiny tiny bit you can't even coat the stick down here a little bit and it'll it'll make the stick burn down about as far as you have about as far down as you have the the carmex are whatever you want to use now what I'm going to do is I'm just going into here and I'm just dobbing in this magnesium shavings us down here I'm just going to pick them up I can't I can't even get them all I scraped too much that's right and now what I'm going to do here is I'm just going to kind of magnesium shavings work best if they're kind of together that's why in our FSK our fire starting kit we have concentrator paper that allows the shavings to be grouped together in a very tight configuration all right so now i'm just going to light this and it's going to be a little awkward because i'm on a kind of a weird angle here but we'll do what we can so i'm just going to take the spark rod side of this thing hopefully I can do this out knocking the little camera down here and everything and I don't know hopefully you can even see what I'm doing but I bump the camera already this I get over here maybe you can see it a little better what I'm trying to just trying to throw a spark in the end there it's actually easy to easier to throw it in the bottom of something good on to something but once it hits its there there we go right there and so now we've got a q-tip torch this thing will burn for a couple of minutes just like that and you know you can burn you can burn onto the stick too if you want if you kind of tilt it up but something like that is easily easily good enough to get us fire started for you then you could do it even a little more than that or whatever you want but i just want to show real quick tip so anyway so there's a q-tip q-tip cotton ball firestarter using carmex and the Don magnesium bar and we have in our fire starting