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#58638 - 01/20/06 08:57 PM Re: Mythbusters on Firestarting (Summary please?)
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TANSTAAFL???

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#58639 - 01/20/06 10:12 PM Re: Mythbusters on Firestarting (Summary please?)
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#58640 - 01/20/06 11:22 PM Re: Mythbusters on Firestarting
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Yeah I put about 10 throwing caps in my tinder and was burning 5cm dia. in seconds rather than the couple of minutes it normally takes up here with the cold weather. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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#58641 - 01/20/06 11:25 PM Re: Mythbusters on Firestarting (Summary please?)
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Now, that one I'll remember <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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#58642 - 01/21/06 05:51 AM Re: Mythbusters on Firestarting (Summary please?)
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Sue Who is Richard Maybury?

Tanstaafal come from Robert Heinlein. Specifically The Moon is a Harsh Mistriss.
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#58643 - 01/21/06 03:51 PM Re: Mythbusters on Firestarting (Summary please?)
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I think it's older than that, even. From the Great Depression.

Maybury is a writer of easily-understood books on things like finance. The one I just finished was "Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?" and TANSTAAFAL was something he mentioned serveral times.

Love Heinlein!

Sue

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#58644 - 01/21/06 04:38 PM Re: Mythbusters on Firestarting
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Quote:
If you're caught out without soap, you can get the same effect by rubbing the top end of the spindle through your hair / across your forehead.

Especially if you've been out without soap for a few days....
Ear wax works well too and if you've been out in the woods a couple days you probably have a decent supply built up. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


Edited by brian (01/21/06 04:46 PM)
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#58645 - 01/21/06 05:13 PM Re: Mythbusters on Firestarting
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So how do you start a fire using gunpowder?
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#58646 - 01/21/06 09:27 PM Re: Mythbusters on Firestarting
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I don't use gun powder, I use a bic, or a ferro bar, cotton balls & vaseline, bow drill, freznel lense, battery & steel wool...anything but gun powder... I'd rather use the powder to send lead down range <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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#58647 - 01/22/06 01:45 AM Re: Mythbusters on Firestarting
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Well, theoretically (as I've said, I have not done it yet), you pull the bullet with your Leatherman Juice (very doable). Then you empty out most of the powder ( just how much is the salient point.) You then stuff a piece of rag into the cartridge in place of the bullet. The idea is that you then fire the cartridge from your gun. The small amount of remaining powder left in the cartridge ignites the piece of rag, which is then expelled out of the muzzle of your gun (presumably at a high rate of speed) burning as it goes. You then scramble frantically over to said burning piece of rag, grasp it with the aforementioned Leatherman Juice, and then stick it under your carefully gathered tinder pile. Voila--inferno.

As I've said, I have never tried it. I hope somebody chimes in who has who can correct me if I have the details wrong.

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