Waterproof Matches
Just wondering how others waterproof their matches...when you can find strike-anywhere kitchen matches, which is getting harder and harder every day. IMO all strike-on-box or -book matches are worthle...
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We waxed kitchen matches in Boy Scouts (don't know if you can still buy quality kitchen matches anywhere in the U.S.) and eventually got a waterproof match case.
But the match thing went away when I got my first Zippo. It will light in the rain, will light in the wet.
Well fueled, a Zippo will light up just about anything. Burn almost long enough to cook on it. You can still buy a new plain old stainless steel Zippo for less than ten bucks (in checkout line at our local Wmart) though "official" lighter fluid is a little harder to find gasoline worked fine in Zippos for hundreds of thousands of GIs, as will Coleman fuel.
But the match thing went away when I got my first Zippo. It will light in the rain, will light in the wet.
Well fueled, a Zippo will light up just about anything. Burn almost long enough to cook on it. You can still buy a new plain old stainless steel Zippo for less than ten bucks (in checkout line at our local Wmart) though "official" lighter fluid is a little harder to find gasoline worked fine in Zippos for hundreds of thousands of GIs, as will Coleman fuel.
