by George Collins » Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:51 am
If you take a small bit of gasoline and add to it an obscene amount of styrofoam, a jelly-like substance will form. If you tear off a hunk the size of your thumb from the last knuckle on and stick a match to it, the flame will burn for ~ 7 minutes.
The applications are broad.
One of my favorites: if you are going into the field for an extended stay, not knowing whether or not foul weather might be headed your way, I know of no other fire-starting aid that works more reliably. Couple this recipe with some water proof matches, a hatchet for splitting dry standing wood and a sharp knife to turn that split wood into feather sticks and you have about the most reliable method of starting fire there is. Better even than fat pine which we grew up calling "lightard" witch is a corruption of "light wood."
If the part of the world you live in is anything like where I live, styrofoam on the side of the road is an all too common occurrence. That and Christmas is where my raw materials usually come from.
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