How to Make Wax Dipped Cotton Balls - Part 2 of 2. [Homemade All-Weather Fire Tinder]

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors shows you how to make wax-coated cotton balls, one of the best all condition fire tinders. If the wax coating is effective, the cotton balls will be waterproof, as well as accept a spark from a ferro rod or the flame of a lighter. The cotton balls, although they can be messy, are easy to use and will burn for upwards of 7 minutes per ball. [Part 2 of 2]

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all right now that I got all the wax in liquid form i take it off the fire move it over here it so i can work with it just adjust this fire for the sake of it keep it going give it attention everything wants to be acknowledged not the prettiest looking fire it's doing its job now I've seen mr. Wendell do this mr. David window he put it right in the hot the hot wax as soon as it was hot he dipped it in really quick um when I did this I felt like it was absorbing too much into the cotton but so I let it cool down a little bit but basically I'm just going to dip it in the hot we're going to see what happens and it's going to continue to cool down but basically you want to do this quick in and out quick because if you leave it in too long like I said it's cotton it's going to absorb it's going to absorb it all don't

do that quick again young I'm trying to get as much as i can because i'm going to reverse it and a little bit of cotton that's exposed i'm going to dip back into a completely water Celie

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I'm sure I save myself someone might add some more wax do one more out there set up and then I finish it off i'ma let you set up for a little bit now that's when I started here yeah they're still hot basically you're going to let this set let this wax harden and I excuse me to sort of speed up this process if I would let this wax cool just a little bit longer and I cannot be able to move the side of the can I can tell if it's coating and it's not so hot go more wood on the fire and there's a lot of different ways to get fires going different fire styles and you know i'm not in the survival situation right now so I'm not treating this fire like I need it for warmth or for my survival i'm using it for a task so how I interact with the fire right now this particular fire is specific to the task i'm using this fire for fire has a lot of different uses it's a you know piece of technology and to say there's only one way to get a fire going anything like that would be would be pretty foolish of me you much can you get a shot in there see how it's going down coating the size you will see it see the wax on the sides how it's leaving a little bit of a residue quick

see if that that works any better force I'm gonna let these cool down on at this point vocal cup will come back actually me get one more in this and this dryers or this cooler wax and we'll come back once these have set up a little bit and then what will finish them off did that go on and so over here we follow me i'm going to lay down pretty leisurely an act like them in living room floor I have these half-finished cotton balls and this has now created a hard coat over here and he these will kind of stick to the foil and kind has gotta peel em up be be sort of gentle with them you sort of gentle with them but so they're pretty much half finished you know close up you can kind of see what's left just this little bit I'm going to dunk in and finish off on all of these and to make it waterproof you need to make sure that each sort of dunk in the waxed overlaps the other to get that seal around it completely so that's what I'm going to do right now I'm going to finish these off if i have enough wax in here if not you won't see them all finished on camera but top but it ain't too bad all right there it wasn't it cold and I brought this for a reason coating on that person I'll just drop you in New hey I got enough for one more now let's try one last one see pushing it alright that's dang near good okay that's about empty all the wax that's like best-case scenario right there although I oxide melders pretty much used a little bit on the side of the can but nice job so at this point finished product in this step and at this point you're going to want to let you set up for some hours let them harden cool off and then you'll be good to go I hope this video was helpful got to see everything I got to do a little more challenges doing it outside but this is why cotton balls dipped in wax it's Creek sounding out back outdoors later turtles