What kind of metal?
I was at the flea market and this guy had these rods about .5 in diameter and 4" long, set in wooden or bone handles, he could use glass, or a pocket knife or whatever that was harder then the rod and not only flake some off to start kindling but create the sparks with the same rod. Plain magnesium will burn nicely if you shave some off but it wont spark like that, what the heck was it?
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Sounds like an artificial flint striker, like the Swedish FireSteel in the link below:
http://www.lightmyfireusa.com/firesteel.html
It's a Magnesium alloy made of "7 different metals", which somehow must give it the ability to spark.Your guess is as good as mine as to what the "7 different metals" are.0 -
Thanks for the link Talking Head but I think this might still have been a little different in that he used shavings from the rod scarped onto paper or cotton balls to cause them to ignite like magnesium when the same bar was used to create those sparks. 0 -
Moog, my fire starter is magnesium but has a steel rod on one side. After you scrape the mag, you just scrape the steel rod with your knife and sparks fly and it starts up. Tom 0 -
The critical metal in those is unobtainium. Very hard to find in the natural state. 0 -
Kind of pricy, but Blast Match is probably the top of the line for magnesium starters:
http://www.ultimatesurvival.com/product_view.cfm?product_ID=3570 -
I made something similar at one time, but it had a flint rod imbedded
in one side of the magnesium rod...used a piece of broken hacksaw
blade for the stiker.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Warpig883
The critical metal in those is unobtainium. Very hard to find in the natural state.
You're a geological wizard, boy! Whoever woulda thunk it![8D][:D][8D]0
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