I had a box of these candles that you place under the wood you are trying to get started burning for a fire. Campfires, fireplaces etc. They look like tea lights but the entire thing burns up even the wax and the wax paper covering. They make a very hot flame unlike some of the other fire starting products and last about 10 minutes or so. Anyone know what these things are called?
Fire starting candles - what are they called.
Feb 10, 2008
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Hexamine? Used to cook with them in the forces.
Aardvark wrote in news:xYtrj.5449$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe6-win.ntli.net:
Dunno, but I googled and found this site that tells you all this stuff to use. It's sort of interesting.
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good old common road flares are about as good as it gets in starting a camp fire....
poison snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote in news:59d9c2c1-4225-40d9-8732- snipped-for-privacy@l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:
pinecones work very well. they're full of turpentine.
Noahbuddy wrote in news:47ae77ca$0$22072$ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com:
on the last Survivor TV episode,Yau-man used his glasses with a drop of water on a lens as a magnifier to start a fire on their first day. He lit coconut fiber for a starter.
There are a lot of pine cones where I live. I know people who keep a bunch around for starting fires.
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