To Start a Fire

Jet-like precision flame reaches temperatures up to 1300ºC and has a lock on flame that makes it a handy pocket blow-torch which can withstand up to 10 minutes of continuous use. Soft rubber coating makes it easy and comfortable to grip. Uses ‘clean burn’ technology so it can melt synthetic materials without depositing black carbon. Multitude of everyday, emergency and on-the-road uses including emergency repairs, cut and seal para rope and blast rust from metal. Work up to 12,000 ft altitude. 3”x1.2”.

A very effective low-priced outdoor lighter. A piezo-electric ignition intensely generates enough concentrated heat to light just about anything, in any weather. O-ring sealed top and impact resistant body with lanyard ring. Refillable. Colors vary.

Includes twelve - .5 oz. solid fuel tablets for use with the Pocket Stove (#4131).

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Channel your inner caveman. Use small spark, make big fire, ugh. Scrape a knife or the included striker down the length of the FireSteel rod to release a massive a shower of 5400°F sparks. No worries about damp matches or a lighter running out of fluid. If you can’t start a fire with this tool…well, then you probably shouldn’t be playing with fire anyway. Timeless back-to-basics fire starting tool works even when the conditions are wet and cold to ignite a stove, paper, dry grass or any dry tinder. Twenty years from now it will still work perfectly, too. Firesteel is 3.5”x1”x.75”, metal striker is 2.75”x1”. The lanyard measures 7” long for easy carrying or securing to a garment, bag or other gear.

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“The sparks from a well-struck flint and steel can be seen for much more than a mile.”
-- ‘The Art of Rough Travel’, 1872, by English explorer Sir Francis Galton, republished edited by Kitty Harmon, 2006

And these luddite fire starting kits are also legal to carry thru TSA checkpoints. It’s no small satisfaction to know that one can always make a big fire in a few moments, regardless of where one is. TSA signage says ‘no matches, no Bic lighters, no ____ of any kind’ with a cute row of about ten ‘prohibited:’ icons. But flint & steel sets aren’t shown. And now you know what’s in my carry-on...

-- Mr. Subjective (2013)

Oxygen is nature’s gasoline and is the key to wet weather fire starting. This lightweight, collapsible fire bellowing tool, compresses and focuses air directly into the heart of a fire. The byproduct of this is extra heat which is the key to starting a fire with soaking wet fuels in wet conditions. Collapses from 21" to 3.5". .75 oz.

Featuring a 5mm stainless steel blade with a black-oxide finish, this hatchet easily chops firewood and cuts branches. Quick action rope cutter on the back of the blade and multi-sized hex wrenches (3/8″, 9/16″, and 11/16″) integrated into blade design. Paracord handle wrap provides secure grip and unwraps to over 8’ of cordage. Convenient wrist lanyard provides an additional 1.6’ of cord. Includes flint/magnesium fire starter and nylon sheath. 9.7”x3.4”x.75”. Weighs 10 oz.

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A lighters’ equivalent to converting a Cessna into an F-16…drop an ordinary disposable lighter into the cartridge, click the electron ignition and hear the low roar of this Pocket Torch as the super-fine centralized blue flame burns at up to 2300° F. This lightweight, simple to use, wind/water resistant burner is useful around camp for starting fires, lighting stoves, melting frayed ends of webbing straps, cutting rope or even emergency brazing and soldering. Each disposable lighter fuel cell (not included), can be acquired at nearly any road-side stop and provides up to 20 minutes of burn time. Very cool…um, er, hot. 4.3”x2.4”x.9”. 1.8 oz.