Duct Tape Fire Starter w/magnesium bar

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We all carry duct tape in our survival kits and it is so useful, here's another perhaps surprising way to use duct tape, it makes a great little fire starter. The Magnesium bar in the video is a Doan, it's nearly 30 years old and has never failed me, which is why that's all we sell on our website. Video by http://wildernessinnovation.com

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Video Transcription

hey Perry peacock I just want to give you a little bit of a quick tip today a lot of people and your survival kits and everything you carry various things that can be useful and in certain ways and for example a lot of people will have a water bottle of some kind and they'll wrap duct tape or medical tape different kinds of tapes around their water bottle something that might be handy to use in a situation and someone to show you another little use for duct tape it comes also in our survival kit that we that we have on our website now duct tape is been around for a long time and it's basically made out of three components this outside silver or various other colored coatings that you have that's polyethylene plastic and then on the inside is an adhesive is a very aggressive adhesive that's rubber based so it'll it'll stick for a long long time and then in between those two is has cotton kind of a cotton fiber mesh and depending on how good your quality of duct tape is may have a lot of cotton in there just a tiny bit but but anyway so that's the three layers in this stuff well turns out this duct tape works very well as a fire extender or an assistant to kind of an assist in starting a fire so let's show you how that works

now the first thing that I like to do is just kind of a kind of loosely fold it or kind of roll it into so it makes kind of a stick and I'm just kind of want to be in that sort of shape right there now you can use more material or less you know depending on your situation all right so what I'm doing is just going to just scraping a little bit of some magnesium shavings in there and I just try to put them all in a little pile I'll have this nice and close right here the better this magnesium works the bet the butter you're the closer knit your pile is the better it is and I'll just throw a spark into there to get that stuff started like that and then we use that to get our duct tape going so you see we got our going right there now now we'll bring it over here we'll put it inside of our little pile of material here we're just kind of using it like a candle getting some stuff going here you

as you can see look it's still burning down in there so what happens to this stuff we can still see them doing what happened to this stuff is the Nepali the polyester and the adhesive off the tape burned first and and then what was left you see that my fire almost went out we saw what was left as a little putt it's a little pile of plastic basically that's left the polyethylene and so even if you don't get it started at first with just the flame that pile of polyethylene from that little move this camera smoke a little bit here anyway that that polyethylene plastic basically melts off and piles in the ground and then that pile glow kind of burns like a candle and basically your stick of duct tape will burn for about a minute and that pile of polyethylene that's left over will burn for about another minute so you actually can have about two minutes of burn time with your with a little piece of duct tape like that so and you saw I only used about an inch and a inch and a quarter inch and a half long piece of it so it doesn't take much and you know you can get a get a fire going so there's a little tip on using duct tape for fire starting and a lot of fun stuff you can do [Music]

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