Fire

Kevin McCloud

Could you make fire without the obvious of having flint, matches or a lighter? I would be confident in making fire with the bow drill method but maybe there is an easier way?[SIZE=+1]
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Mint Aero

Gimme a vindaloo

kowloon

Car battery and leads, smaller battery and chewing gum wrapper, battery and steel wool.

Tokyo

Have started fires with a bow drill, but there are a bunch of easier ways

Magnifying glass
tinfoil and a battery
chlorine and petrol or brake fluid

Turtyturd

Tinfoil in a microwave.

Kevin McCloud

I should have said in my op that one has no other tools or equipment, my bad there.

Tokyo

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

I should have said in my op that one has no other tools or equipment, my bad there.

No other tools or equipment limits you to two choices really - friction or sun. Friction is going to be some variation of a bow drill, sun is going to be some variation of a lens.

efb

do friction burns count???

Kevin McCloud

mike_ie wrote: »

No other tools or equipment limits you to two choices really - friction or sun. Friction is going to be some variation of a bow drill, sun is going to be some variation of a lens.

What about a fire piston?

Kevin McCloud

efb wrote: »

do friction burns count???

Have you friction burns due to a piston maybe?

efb

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Have you friction burns due to a piston maybe?

fapping

dodderangler

efb wrote: »

fapping

Fyp it's called wánking!

Tokyo

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

What about a fire piston?

Sure, but that doesn't fit into your "no other tools or equipment" clause.

One eyed Jack

mike_ie wrote: »

Have started fires with a bow drill, but there are a bunch of easier ways

Magnifying glass
tinfoil and a battery
chlorine and petrol or brake fluid

If you're not carrying a magnifying glass, and you're not driving, you've probably brought a camera for some nature shots - dismantle the camera and use the lens like a magnifying glass.

I'd be nuts to go anywhere without my zippo and a proper survival knife though.

Heh, now I remember when I used go camping as a child, I used feed myself fairly well on raw vegetables from turnips and carrots to whole heads of cabbage!

I'd heard that the rabbits were riddled with mixamatosis, so thankfully I never got that hungry!

Fire wasn't really the easiest thing to do with Irish weather though between the moorlands, boglands and wet woodlands!

efb

dodderangler wrote: »

Fyp it's called wánking!

surely thats FYI, also why is there a fada?

Tokyo

One eyed Jack wrote: »

If you're not carrying a magnifying glass, and you're not driving, you've probably brought a camera for some nature shots - dismantle the camera and use the lens like a magnifying glass.

If you have a camera then it will have a battery (unless you are a complete purist). Skip the lens part, just generate a spark from the battery.

Polished coke can will generate enough heat to start a fire on a sunny day.

dodderangler

efb wrote: »

surely thats FYI, also why is there a fada?

Fyp= fûck your post
And I like fada's

Kevin McCloud

mike_ie wrote: »

Sure, but that doesn't fit into your "no other tools or equipment" clause.

Thats true, i should have thought this out more

Badly Drunk Boy

I think I'd use a birthday cake. With candles on it. That have already been lit. And not blown out.

Capt'n Midnight

Make a lens out of some ice, not very easy

Wire wool and a battery are easy

concentrated sulphuric acid is good, but battery acid has way too much water


Chlorine trifluoride would be an ideal solution


bow probably the easiest, unless you have made tinder before in which case all you need are sparks



them magnesium sticks and flints are great

fleet_admiral

Mint Aero wrote: »

Gimme a vindaloo

Vindaloo is for pansies, a hot phall is what you want

Adamantium

I love the smell of arson napalm in the morning.

Un Croissant

Danger, danger! It's high voltage, when we touch, when we kiss, OP.

Poor Uncle Tom

grass, pressure and time

Sheep Lover

A petrol soaked rag and a lighter makes a handy fire.