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#81779 - 01/02/07 03:33 AM Survival Fire Starter
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I ran across this on E-bay and bought, 2 of them. He calls it an Airtight Flint, It is probably one of the most impressive fire starters I've seen. What my question is if anybody knows who makes these things? I put one on my keychain and bought one of those small nitro glycerin holders from CVS and changed the o-rings on the lid and put lighter fluid in it. It's awesome because the lighter and canister doesn't evaporate the fluid and I have enough fuel to last me weeks if not a month of starting fires. All weighs only a few ounces and takes up a 2 inch by 2 inch space. Any opinions if this is a good idea or not?

Airtight Lighter
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#81780 - 01/02/07 03:59 AM Steripen Adventurer
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I had one more thing I thought I found if anyone was interested, I was just trying to relay as much info to give any ideas to anybody if they want it, I'm not into selling anything.
Steripen had came out with 2 new products for 2007, one called the adventurer and the other the travelers, I had got one through Base Camp but REI had them as well. Anyhow the adventurer has a solar case that you can order separately to recharge the cr123 batteries while traveling with no juice but the one set of batteries doesn't cut it with the slow recharge on the solar panels. So I found the company that supplies them with the batteries and etc.. and they have a 120V or 12V field charger that charges them fast and they also sell extra batteries for a decent price. You have to use the RCR123A 3.0V 750mAh charger for it to work, if you use the 900ma one it will explode. My next move is buying 2 of the Northern Solar chargers and wire them in parallel with blocking diodes to give me 10 Watts in a fold able cell for recharging quicker on long trips. I just have to figure out how to build me a 12 V cut off circuit for the 12v charger that will not burn out the charger or screw up the batteries.
Recharger Solar Panels Steripen Charger Steripen Adventurer
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