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My tin of choice, big enough to do the job, and has a sealable lid, place a roll of cotton material in the tin (I used an old pillow case) and put the lid on. | |||
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Punch a small hole in the lid, approx 1/4 inch. | ||
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Fire up your Trangia and place the tin on the fire. of course you could put the tin in your camp fire. | ||
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Leave the tin on the fire until a flame erupts from the hole in the lid, then place a small stick into the hole, the stick makes the tin airtight and prevents further combustion taking place. | ||
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When the tin is cool, pop the lid off and you should have a roll of charcloth. | |||
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Carefully remove the cloth from the tin, it should look something like this, there is enough here to last me months. | |||
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Tools of the trade, the charcloth is kept in the sealable plastic bag, I keep my flint, steel and cloth in a small pouch. | |||
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Prepare your tinder bundle, I used a birch bark roll containing birch bark scrapings. | |||
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Tear off a strip of cloth about 2 to 3 inches long and fold it up, place this on top of the flint right next to the edge. | |||
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Strike the flint with the steel, a spark will land on the cloth and it will start to glow, encourage the ember to grow with gentle blowing and place it into your tinder bundle. | |||
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Keep blowing the ember and it will grow and catch the birch scrapings alight, after a few seconds............. | |||
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...........hey presto we have fire, place this under your kindling (which you have already prepared of course), and build your fire in the normal manner. | |||
| It took less than 20 seconds from striking the steel on the flint to achieve flame from the resulting ember. | ||||