How to make Firelighters / Blitz

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CharlieM

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Any chemically inclined folks on here that know the formula for making those white firelighters? Been searching the internet without much luck.
 
Are they that expensive that you have to make your own or do you want to start your own firelighter business?
 
buy a fire brick cut it in small blocks
put it in parifin for a hour
put it in between wood
light
when done take block out of ashes and put back in parifin
 
I dry used teabags out and them place them in a glass jar full of lamp oil or paraffin. I then use two or three of the soaked teabags to light a fire with.
 
Similar to an earlier comment, I used to take two brikettes and soak them in meths for about an hour.
 
Arthur said:
How do you stop the meths from evaporating too quickly?
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You put a match to it?
Seriously though, enough seemed to soak into the brikettes to keep them burning long enough to get the fire going. It doesn't just go 'woof'!
 
Soak a ball of tissue paper in normal cooking oil. It takes a few seconds to catch a light but it works better than normal fire lighters.
 
Nadir said:
Soak a ball of tissue paper in normal cooking oil. It takes a few seconds to catch a light but it works better than normal fire lighters.
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I take the community newspaper, scrunch it up really tight (burns slowly) and throw some cooking oil over it.
 
I soak thin pieces of wood in Parafin and I leave to dry.
 
Best way:
  • Get empty beer can (cooldrink can will do in an emergency)
  • Cut in half (or make it a bit shorter if you are lighting charcoal rather than wood)
  • Fill with sand (dryer is better)
  • Stick a few matches or twigs into the sand
  • Pour in parafin until it covers the sand
  • Light the twigs and build a pile of wood/charcoal over the flames
  • PROFIT
 
I just buy them from the shops. Far easier and less messy.
 
Best is corrugated cardboard and old cooking oil.Never bought firelighters in years, also collect pine cones whenever you see them.Natures fire lighters.
 
quick and cheap, cotton balls with a nice dab of petroleum jelly on it.. burns about as long as normal firelighters.. everything else everyone else mentioned will work as well.. a friend of mine for a uni project made little cardboard containers dipped in candle wax that was filled with spice.. once you used the spice you use the container as a firelighter..
 
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