Today I bought a 50g Ignition steel firestarter made by the Swedish manufacturer Primus. I've added an image.
It may be just me, but I find it works pretty poorly. You really have use some force to get some sparks at all, and to get a nice bunch of flying sparks, you really have to hit the piece of magnesium with some force. The piece of metal you get with it to scrape it, is rather useless in my opinion. I use a small cheap knife (I wouldn't use my survival knife for it, I think it would ruin the edge).
So far I didn't succeed in lighting a piece of toilet paper or some fuel to start a BBQ with. I think it would probably work on denatured alcohol or petroleum, but not on dry material.
Does anybody have other experience with this firestarter? Does anybody know another good manufacturer of firesteel?
It may be just me, but I find it works pretty poorly. You really have use some force to get some sparks at all, and to get a nice bunch of flying sparks, you really have to hit the piece of magnesium with some force. The piece of metal you get with it to scrape it, is rather useless in my opinion. I use a small cheap knife (I wouldn't use my survival knife for it, I think it would ruin the edge).
So far I didn't succeed in lighting a piece of toilet paper or some fuel to start a BBQ with. I think it would probably work on denatured alcohol or petroleum, but not on dry material.
Does anybody have other experience with this firestarter? Does anybody know another good manufacturer of firesteel?
