ahhhh, I love PV = nRT. I use it all the time to explain to my workmate why his wheelbarrow tyre gets harder in the hot weather!
As for lighting fires...you should see the flames out the rear of my massaged Skyline GTSt when running high boost and I back off the throttle! And sod that playing round with the distributor - old hat. I'm far too modern for that and do it with my laptop instead
Honestly though, who could be chewed with this thing? A flint & striker is hard core enough. If you can't get away with matches you are doing it wrong.
One can never have too many methods of firelighting. The more the merrier. I've just ordered one, purely out of interest and to add to my arsonist's outfit, and the seller is including a nice load of charcloth for free to save me burning my pants.
Steel Wool and a nine volt batterie with two terminals on one edge connect two together and rub together it should set the steel wool alight and use like tinder.
That fire piston looks pretty handy,although maybe painful when slamming it inside in order for it to create a flame.I am unsure i would want to slam something hard against the inside palm of my hand if the weather is hitting zero.It would be handy on Guy Fawkes Night for lighting fireworks though
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Quote: Originally posted by blacklagoon on 29/7/2009
That fire piston looks pretty handy,although maybe painful when slamming it inside in order for it to create a flame.I am unsure i would want to slam something hard against the inside palm of my hand if the weather is hitting zero.It would be handy on Guy Fawkes Night for lighting fireworks though
Good point!!
You dont have to slam it on your hand though.....i find it easier to place it on a hard surface and hold the piston body with 2 hands, then rapidly press it down for the air to compress and ignite the tinder.
Quote: Originally posted by petemillis on 17/7/2009
Quote: Originally posted by mike whiskey on 16/7/2009Are we allowing adverrtising on this site now then....?
What advertising? Can't someone post a link to something on ebay?
I would say this entire thread is spam. ie commercial advertising.
All of the OP's ten posts (except one) have been about this "fire piston". Better wording than most spam, but still spam.
Doesn't it make you look more cautiously at a commercial product if a new user jumps up talking positively about it and then supplying a "handy" link to buy it???
Personally, I'm not too sure about the fire piston. To use it, you need something with which to create an ember. They supply an initial supply of char cloth - but you'd better know how to make your own if you're going to use this device for more than the novelty of seeing it work once or twice.
Also, there's a lot that can go wrong. Look at the advert and you'll see that it includes a cleaning rod, lubricant, and spare seals. These wouldn't have been included if they weren't necessary, and without them I doubt the device could work reliably first time, every time no matter how often you used it ... and what do you do once your last spare seal is shot?
So I'll vote for fire steels as the easiest and most reliable way to start a fire. Unlike matches, fire steels work when wet. Although they're probably easier to use with char cloth, you can use other stuff (e.g. birch bark shavings or certain fungi) to catch the sparks from a fire steel.
If you feel the need to carry more than one fire-making device, my vote would go for a spare fire steel!
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Topic: Fire Piston
