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The Fire Piston: Ancient Firemaking Machine
primitiveways.com ^ | copyright 1996 | Wyatt R. Knapp

Posted on 10/05/2012 8:08:08 PM PDT by djone

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To: MSF BU
I'm sure I couldn't comment on that.

/johnny

21 posted on 10/05/2012 9:32:57 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Don’t waste a perfectly good flare!

Wrap a small rag onto a stick, then dampen it with gas, kerosene, or diesel. Hold it next to one of the vehicle’s battery cables, and use a long screw driver, wrench, or spread-open pliers to spark it alight. If nothing else, you can connect a set of jumper cables*, and use the free-end clamps to create the sparks.

You can use it as a torch, if you modify it a bit to make it burn slower & longer; or use it as a match, same as the flare is use.

*In a pinch, battery cables can be used for crude emergency light duty welding, using 16d nails or bailing wire for ‘welding rods’.


22 posted on 10/05/2012 9:46:40 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch
LOL! I snorted beer through my nose and the catz left the room.

That's field expedient, right there, I don't care who you are.

/johnny

23 posted on 10/05/2012 9:49:20 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: djone

Bttt.


24 posted on 10/05/2012 11:31:10 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: djone

25 posted on 10/06/2012 3:40:56 AM PDT by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Red_Devil 232
A turkey baster?

Michelle, two kids. A coincidence, I think not.

26 posted on 10/06/2012 7:22:05 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (Obama A man without an American mission.)
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self-PING for later.


27 posted on 10/06/2012 7:33:52 AM PDT by Rio (Tempis Fugit.)
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To: .45 Long Colt
a copper stubout

Is that like a henway?

28 posted on 10/06/2012 7:36:47 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month)
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Everyone knows a hen weighs 4 to 6 lbs.

Copper stub out...

http://www.amazon.com/X8-COPPER-STUB-OUT/dp/B002JG4H3E/ref=sr_1_35?ie=UTF8&qid=1349576235&sr=8-35&keywords=copper+stub+out


29 posted on 10/06/2012 7:20:18 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: djone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Win_t0xtcQs#t=39s


30 posted on 10/06/2012 8:18:54 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: SunkenCiv

That was cool!
Thanks for the ping.


31 posted on 10/08/2012 10:44:40 AM PDT by fanfan ("But if Muslims were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")
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