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#31509 - 09/08/04 07:33 PM Re: Where to buy ferrocerium rods?
aardwolfe Offline
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Registered: 08/22/01
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Well, you know there's gonna be some moron (like yours truly <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> ) that just tosses one in loose with their keys and loose change ....

Not that I started a fire by doing that. But it did cross my mind afterward that it wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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#31510 - 09/08/04 07:43 PM Re: Where to buy ferrocerium rods?
GoatRider Offline
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Registered: 08/28/04
Posts: 835
Loc: Maple Grove, MN
I just ordered a couple. I plan on gluing a piece to a key blank, and then putting a piece of shrink wrap over it. Then I can put it on my keychain.

Now that I think about it, perhaps gluing it to a spare house key would be a better idea, a key blank is rather useless. Then if my main house key fails for any reason, I can pop the spark rod off, scrape the glue off, and then get in the house.
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#31511 - 09/08/04 08:15 PM Re: Where to buy ferrocerium rods?
aardwolfe Offline
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Loc: St. John's, Newfoundland
The shrink tubing is a good idea, I've found through experience that the ferrocerium (actually, I used 5 lighter flints) will come loose and disappear through the normal wear and tear of jangling around in one's pocket.

I'd use proper electrical shrink tubing, not shrink wrap, but I don't have anything other than a gut feeling to go on there. (That is, if you mean kitchen plastic shrink wrap, I think it would be more likely to come loose, snag on something, tear, etc. than shrink tubing. But maybe that's a language/dialect thing. )
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#31512 - 09/08/04 08:40 PM Re: Where to buy ferrocerium rods?
GoatRider Offline
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No, I don't mean kitchen shrink wrap. That seems like it would come off pretty easily in the harsh environment of a pocket. You can get a packet of assorted electrical shrink wrap for a buck or two at Radio Shack.
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#31513 - 09/08/04 10:53 PM Re: Where to buy ferrocerium rods?
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Not only can you find it at the 'Shack, it can come in multiple colors - Red would be appropriate for that, don't you think?

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#31514 - 09/10/04 12:10 AM Re: Where to buy ferrocerium rods?
aardwolfe Offline
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Registered: 08/22/01
Posts: 924
Loc: St. John's, Newfoundland
I use clear shrink tubing on mine, mainly because I don't want to arouse the curiosity of the airport security guards.
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#31515 - 09/10/04 03:27 PM Re: Where to buy ferrocerium rods?
Anonymous
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The pathetic thing is that we have to worry about "arousing airport security," which can basically confiscate anything they feel like, regulations or guidelines be damned.

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