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Fire starting candles - what are they called.
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| poison_1024@yahoo.com 2008-02-09, 8:25 pm |
| 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?
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| Aardvark 2008-02-09, 9:25 pm |
| On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:44:54 -0800, poison_1024 wrote:
> 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?
Hexamine? Used to cook with them in the forces.
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Liverpool. European City Of Culture 2008
http://www.liverpool08.com
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| Noahbuddy 2008-02-10, 3:25 am |
| Aardvark <aardvark@youllnever.know> wrote in
news:xYtrj.5449$nG4.1905@newsfe6-win.ntli.net:
> On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:44:54 -0800, poison_1024 wrote:
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> Hexamine? Used to cook with them in the forces.
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Dunno, but I googled and found this site that tells you all this stuff to
use. It's sort of interesting.
http://www.campfiredude.com/fire-starters.shtml
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| good old common road flares are about as good as it
gets in starting a camp fire....
<poison_1024@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:59d9c2c1-4225-40d9-8732-0550a947f7fe@l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>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?
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| Jim Yanik 2008-02-10, 5:25 pm |
| poison_1024@yahoo.com wrote in news:59d9c2c1-4225-40d9-8732-
0550a947f7fe@l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:
> 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?
>
pinecones work very well. they're full of turpentine.
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Jim Yanik
jyanik
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kua.net
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| Jim Yanik 2008-02-10, 5:25 pm |
| Noahbuddy <nhbddy@inner.space.org> wrote in
news:47ae77ca$0$22072$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com:
> Aardvark <aardvark@youllnever.know> wrote in
> news:xYtrj.5449$nG4.1905@newsfe6-win.ntli.net:
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> 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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> http://www.campfiredude.com/fire-starters.shtml
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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.
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Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
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| Mark Lloyd 2008-02-11, 1:25 pm |
| On 10 Feb 2008 22:08:47 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov> wrote:
>poison_1024@yahoo.com wrote in news:59d9c2c1-4225-40d9-8732-
>0550a947f7fe@l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:
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>pinecones work very well. they're full of turpentine.
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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Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent
force for atheism ever conceived." -- Isaac Asimov
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