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   purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:33 JST purple 👊✊💨

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   • unlofl [Promoted Toot]

   @unlofl@mstdn.social well it's about a 25 minute drive home from work, so that's about two cans per day..
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xcQIoh3FQQ

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     unlofl [Promoted Toot] (unlofl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:34 JST unlofl [Promoted Toot]

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     @purple But how else are we supposed to get empty cans to shoot at?!?

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     purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:36 JST purple 👊✊💨

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     @unlofl@mstdn.social yeah it's like liquor and firearms 👍

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     unlofl [Promoted Toot] (unlofl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:37 JST unlofl [Promoted Toot]

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     @purple I'm glad to run into someone who has tried it, but I'm going to avoid handling the invisible death ray while getting high, bics having a very limited range and visible flame is good!

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     purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:38 JST purple 👊✊💨

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     @unlofl@mstdn.social yep that sounds about right. fuckin' hippies.
     
     you want an ultraviolet laser to smoke weed with. be sure to wear the awesome green protective eyewear. most of those off ebay are plenty powerful enough to set some bud on fire, speaking from experience.

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     unlofl [Promoted Toot] (unlofl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:39 JST unlofl [Promoted Toot]

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     @purple I've got the big traditional 6in lens (out of one of those desk magnifier lamps) which I have taken camping!

     Purely for the novelty of solar bong hits, we got high with nothing but weed, glass, and sunlight, and then it got cloudy and we pulled out the bic.

     Then I joked about needing a high power laser so we could have more super clean bong rips, and spent the next 30 minutes arguing with some hippie that "laser radiation" doesn't mean smoking weed with a laser will give you cancer.

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     purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:40 JST purple 👊✊💨

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     @unlofl@mstdn.social yeah, think about how much light you get through the trees in a forest, too. like it's a novel idea but like most archaic/primitive options it's best in specific situations -- with the idea being to cover as many different situations as possible xD

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     unlofl [Promoted Toot] (unlofl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:41 JST unlofl [Promoted Toot]

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     @purple But this fits in the altoids tin, I was going for a cute little kit! Maybe the fresnel lense, but I'm also in the US northwest where its always overcast.

     Its one of the best places in the word to live if you're a moss or lichen.

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     purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:42 JST purple 👊✊💨

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     @unlofl@mstdn.social oh yeah it's fantastic and absolutely what i'd go with if i were camping on the beach or somewhere with constant wind. up on the mountains, in the forests, it aint nearly a problem, though.
     
     i always support sustainable initiatives :) add a magnifying glass to the kit! a BIG one!

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     unlofl [Promoted Toot] (unlofl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:43 JST unlofl [Promoted Toot]

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     @purple Good to know! And yeah, I know I'm tinkering with the archaic. Up until now I've always just used the bic and focused on using kindling right, I can start a fire with a bic and a log and a knife to split off some kindling/matchstick sized bits.

     Though also, holy crap the vaseline+cotton works well. I saw it mentioned because its waterproof, but a little tuft also just burns like a candle for almost 60 seconds and it lights easily with the ferrorod.

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     purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:44 JST purple 👊✊💨

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     @unlofl@mstdn.social the metal straw thingum is a game changer.
     
     fwiw back when i did a fuckton of camping, i would carry some lint in a film canister, ferrorod as a backup, and a zippo + fuel + spare flint as my primary source of fire.
     
     blue jeans lint is by far the best -- yes, i tested this at one point. other stuff likes to pop and crackle or smoulders (too much inorganic fibers). i never added vaseline or wax to it to make my own woodfat type stuff, careful selection of tinder will obviate that need.
     
     prior to using ferrorod as a backup, i'd use a magnifying lens. the one time i needed it, it was overcast just enough to not let it do the trick so i switched.
     
     i'm going camping again in about 3 weeks, and zippo + ferrorod/magnesium will be what i bring. and yes, i'm aware of the limitations of this system, and the fact that i have to hike fuel in and out isn't lost on me (something i otherwise avoid). by all measures, picking up a new-in-box BIC on the way to the trailhead is a better way to do it in 99% of circumstances.
     
     a prepper will have a dozen different ways to start a fire. a boy scout will pull out a lighter. 👍

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     unlofl [Promoted Toot] (unlofl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:45 JST unlofl [Promoted Toot]

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     My tinder box!

     It's an Altoids tin containing:
     - Waterproof keychain pill thing full of greasy Vaseline cotton ball
     - little wire tool for pulling out cotton
     - block of magnesium with ferrorod (sorta artificial flint?) along one edge
     - tool-steel striker tool
     - weird collapsible metal straw that came with a camp stove, for blowing on small flames without going cross eyed

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     unlofl [Promoted Toot] (unlofl@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 12:15:46 JST unlofl [Promoted Toot]

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     Hey @robinhood , have you ever used a fire piston? I'm playing with one because it seems like a cool camping/physics toy, and I've managed to make char cloth and ignite it into an ember with the piston, but I can't figure it out from there.

     I'm a newbie at retro fire. I can light a greasy cotton ball with flint, but can't figure it out with a tiny piston-ember thing.

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