Posted on 10/05/2012 8:08:08 PM PDT by djone
History/how to of this ancient device: "Air gets very hot when it is compressed under high pressure. A classic example would be the heat that is created when one uses a bicycle pump. But when the air is compressed in a firepiston it is done so quickly and efficiently that it can reach a temperature in excess of 800 degrees Fahrenheit. This is hot enough to ignite the tinder that is placed in the end of the piston which has been hollowed out to accept it."
(Excerpt) Read more at primitiveways.com ...
/johnny
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’.
That's field expedient, right there, I don't care who you are.
/johnny
Bttt.
Michelle, two kids. A coincidence, I think not.
self-PING for later.
Is that like a henway?
Everyone knows a hen weighs 4 to 6 lbs.
Copper stub out...
That was cool!
Thanks for the ping.
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