Handy Hints, Gadgets, Products & Gizmos
Another member suggested a new forum section with new products but it doesn't look like it will be feasible. So I thought I would post this here under General RVing Issues. If enough people post (even...
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bondebond wrote:
At our cub scout meeting a couple of weeks back, I had the boys make their own firestarters out of dryer lint and Gulf wax. We go the mini muffin paper cups, stuffed lint in them, stuck a piece of natural twine out of them (read, wick) and poured melted wax on them. I'm happy to report that they worked beautifully this weekend. My son had a sense of contributing when I let him light his own starter for the family to enjoy a nice campfire and round of smore-making. Of course, he's a boy, so anything with fire...well, you know.
Another and easier way is to put the lint and wax in a paper egg crate then let the wax harden and cut or break apart the crate and you have 12 fire starters and you just light the cardboard corner no wick needed. I shared that in the scouts many times over 20 years. In fact I just made some more on Saturday because only had a few left over that I made before I stepped down in 2000.
