How Do You Light A Fire With Flint & Steel?
Fire Small metal box with lid Nail Hammer 100% cotton cloth Scissors Tongs Char cloth Tinder Flint Steel Kindling wood Firewood Build a fire and let it die down until a bed of hot coals remains. Take a small metal box with a lid (like a mint box) and use a hammer and nail to punch a hole in the middle of the lid. Cut several 2-in. X 2-in. squares of 100 percent nontreated cotton cloth, place them in the metal box and close the lid. Place the metal box full of cotton cloth squares into the hot coals. The cloth should start smoking. Watch carefully and remove the box with tongs immediately after it stops smoking. Prepare tinder from any dry natural vegetable fiber such as weeds, hemp, sisal, cotton, linen or jute. Mix two types together if possible by first shredding the fibers, then forming a wad about the size of your fist. Place the tinder in your fire pit and lay a piece of char cloth on top of it. Hold the steel in your non-dominant hand closely over the tinder. Strike the flint dow
