Judging by the responses from my initial post, I'll probably forgo buying matches. If the intelligent and capable people frequenting this forum struggle with these matches, it doesn't leave much hope for " The 12 y/o child or asphalt pounder ".
Building redundancy into any system is good but if it doesn't work properly and consistantly when you need it, its simply excess baggage. IMHO :-)
Thats my 0.2cents!
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