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#30648 - 08/21/04 09:16 PM Re: Whats in your ETS PSP
aardwolfe Offline
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Registered: 08/22/01
Posts: 924
Loc: St. John's, Newfoundland
I added a mini-Bic lighter, a few squares of toilet paper and some additional (larger) sheets of Rite-in-the-Rain paper to mine. I know Doug is really enamoured of the Spark-Lite fire starter, but I found it wasn't very effective at igniting most tinder, compared to the BlastMatch or a good Mag-flint block; however, a half-dozen strikes against a single-ply piece of TP or tissue paper will generate a flame and that will ignite a piece of paper. (When I took the week-long Bushcraft course from Mors Kochanski last month, another student and I were able to get the campfire going in the morning after a heavy thunderstorm the night before had left all our kindling bundles damp and hard to ignite. I got a flame going using some TP (that had been under shelter and was dry) which he used to ignite a piece of writing paper from one of the other students' notebooks; we were able to use this to ignite the kindling bundle and from there we had a good blaze going in no time.

I would probably want to carry a Kleenex pocket-pack in another pocket, along with a large space-blanket and the SAS Survival Guide. I will probably add a piece of a plastic straw packed with cotton balls and sealed at the ends.

Any kit, of course, is a compromise between what people will need, and what they will carry. I'm not very confident with my fire-lighting skills so I would want to carry extra.
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#30649 - 09/03/04 03:32 PM Re: Whats in your ETS PSP
Brad Offline
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Registered: 08/23/04
Posts: 83
Loc: houston
So far I've added a Photon II, P38 can opener (wrapped in some cheap masking tape to keep it from opening and cutting something), one of those 4way Sears screwdriver keychain things (light and you never know when you might need to remove a screw), about 10 inches of black electrical tape wrapped around the Sparklite, saber saw blade wrapped in masking tape, 1 wet nap, 2 bandades, and a small Victorinox swiss army knife (small blade, file, scissors, toothpick and tweezers).

I'll add some water bags and a short piece of plastic hose too someday.

thanks
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