delliottg wrote:
I was curious how the HF magnesium starters would work because I have several of them. I grabbed one just now and gave it a try. I shaved a fairly small amount, far less than the "quarter-sized" pile they call for. It took several scrapes of the striker bar to get a flame, but it wasn't that hard to do. I tried scraping the metal with the provided scraper, and it'd work in a pinch I guess, but the back of my knife was much faster & produced larger curls of metal. The biggest problem I encountered was the wind trying to blow all my little shavings away. I had to keep scraping them back together into a pile.
After watching the one in the OP video, I wonder where he got his from, because the HF ones seem to work just fine. And they're definitely made in China.
If you have any duct tape in your kit, you can make a loop, sticky side out, and scrap your shavings on to that. The adhesive will help hold the shavings, and it burn pretty nice too.
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