Micro Emergency Fire Starting Kit Tutorial, DIY Keychain Survival Tool: IT'S NOT A LIGHTER

THIS IS NOT A LIGHTER, say for cigarettes; it's a tiny fire starting kit that saves space in micro survival kits. It's sort of a homemade "Spark Lite" spark generator, used to ignite tinder that's stored inside its handle, cut down from a Mini BIC lighter. I AM NOT THE ORIGINATOR OF THIS MOD. I learned it from others. To the best of my knowledge this is the first step-by-step YouTube tutorial showing how to make them, start to finish.

My micro fire kit carries a store bought, "waterproof" Tinder Quik in its hollow handle but most people carry cotton balls mixed with petroleum jelly in these, I believe. The tinder gets me going in an emergency when I can't rustle up any other sources or when all the available sources are dripping wet from recent rain, plus it is also smaller than the Spark-Lite, has a keychain mount, and it's practically "FREE"! I carry it for emergency survival situations.

The company which sells Tinder Quiks claim it is waterproof but my limited testing suggests it really needs to dry out some before it will ignite. I only gave it a brief test though. YMMV.

Hypothermia is a leading cause of death when people get stranded unexpectedly in the wild. You can live without water for a day or two, even longer without food, but hypothermia can kill you in just hours. Being able to build a campfire in an emergency is one of, if not THE most important survival skills out there! People often only pack a thin jacket thinking they are just going for a brief hike that afternoon, only to find they twist their ankle or get lost in the middle of the woods, and once the sun sets the temperature plummets. This can be very dangerous. Carrying this tiny thing, half the size of a pen cap, may save your life some day!

Besides warmth, fires also provide light, signaling, smoke signaling, repel animals and insects, let you boil water derived from natural sources to sterilize it, cook food, etc..

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-M.




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Closed Caption:

firstly remove this top part and then
this child safety guard
this wheel when we reinsert it has to be
put in this way if you flip it around a
hundred and eighty degrees
it won't work so I'm going to mark this
wheel
I'm going to mark the right side
finger down now slowly
pull it away pulling the two yolks of
the mechanism very slowly
there's the spring just the first cerium
rod
so now we've removed all the deck
so that we don't need we do need though
the wheel
the ferrocerium rod and the big spring
since we removed the metal outer guard
this plastic yoke holding the wheel in
slightly splayed and it connects not
only pop out
you don't want that so we're going to
put in a paper clip
the met
going through
ok
bashing the metal in from the back side
forward
so this
sure hope this is going to be in focus
now we're going to twist the water in
the front
twisting also tightens it
now going to cut it off
yeah
this little twisty part gonna bash that
word so it doesn't get in our way
there are four
way here we go there's our spark
generator but it's much longer than it
needs to be so we're going to cut it
down so close up view
notice how the yolk the plastic Yoko
holding the wheel slightly splayed if
you put too much tension on that wire
it's going to display even more and then
it's not going to hold the wheel in
there
so you want to have just the right
amount of tension so that the wood the
the sides are nice and fairly parallel
yeah
going to put some protective duct tape
on the top part so we don't get dust and
grime inside that top element
so I've taped it covered the part I want
to protect and we're going to solve it
off
ok
pinch insert deep let go and I saw
pinch extract
I think this one is going to be about a
millimeter longer than my other one must
I kept filing it down
yeah
let's see how this one came out
blowing over the top and like a pan
flute
shh shh
shh shh shh distance of roughly 1 meter
from the test microphone
Shh it is obnoxiously loud
those people stuff the bottom with a
cotton ball or Vaseline impregnated
cotton ball is your portable tender
yeah
yeah
yeah
Wow
works really well
yeah
I could use more
going to convert see how this works
so that's quite a bit smaller
and i still have a pocket for a cotton
ball
so I here I've refined it with the file
bit more
okay i think i can get folded in half
I think we might be able to fit the full
length
yep
now that is a very small one handed fire
generating kit
you have you can spark
- and you've got ready to go tender
stored in the handle and you don't get
your pants
oily if you put this in your jeans
pocket
don't have to worry about the Vaseline
making a stain in your pocket
yeah
so you hold the sparker with two fingers
thumb and finger and then top finger
lakes park
there we go
that is teeny
I've put on
flip bring the green one and I've
mounted the split ring the other ends
I can dangle this nicely on my keychain