How to Make Fire with a Fire Piston
Here we a Fire piston, way of lighting fire by using compression ignition, a bit like the diesel engine. It’s lot amazing when they invited this couple of hundred years ago. I’ve heard of few tales of where it came from. Some saying the pirates, then they wandered they're reliable way of light fire even in the wet.
Well it consist self, here’s a solid block of wood with a whole down the middle and a rod where the gasket run down there and you have to keep that cork well oil or the Vaseline or fat or something like that to help create the good seal.
Then in the end I’ve put some chard cotton cloth, there’s a small depression and you just put in there. Well I do put it together, pretty hard to pull it out and then it’s on fire. Now you see you can have that little amber there to grass or to some more chard cotton cloth to make a bigger fire.
So here's my fire steel, keep it in this antler, I’m going to light the fire, I’ve got all of my materials laid out ready, size order, I just need my grass. See my pocket and I buff this up, get it nice and feathery in the middle to take a spark, like so.
And then, instead of my foot, light it straight away and you have the fire.
Right, here we have crumpled fungus or King Alfred’s cake grows on decaying ash trees. Here we have flint and carbon still. Just another way of creating an amber, you find a nice sharpened edge and it’s not too bad there.
Place your fungus next to it and then strike them, you see, not may sparks coming off that, that means it’s not that sharp. So, find another one, what you can do, if you haven’t got sharpened off the edge is to hit the flint like that. Not so often create sharper edge. There we go, that’s better, and now ready, you can see there, the cramp ball is on fire. And that will glow for quite a while like that. It’s quite difficult to put out, you normally have to dash them in water to put light fully.
Another thing about dashing in water is that’s the joy of flint and steel. You can throw them in water and still you pull them out, shake them off, bit a rub on your trousers and you can still create sparks. There we go.
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