Published On May 3, 2013
longislandprepper1 asked, "can you show us how you coated your fire starters in? wax. I'm trying it now and not able to get a good goading like I see you have got. i even used res wax to see it better."
So in this video I show how I coat the fire starter material by making a small batch. I also try answering a question I got from wjf213.
wjf213 asked, "Have you ever added magnesium shavings to those round cotton pads and then dipped them in wax? I add the shavings for cotton balls with PJ. The shavings make the fire starters act a little like those trick birthday candles that you can't blow out. One thing I learned though, is you can not leave the shavings out for weeks at a time without using them, because they oxidize and then don't work as well, but once they're sealed in wax? or PJ, they're fine."
Thank you longislandprepper1 and wjf213 for your questions,
And thank you all for watching my videos,
Hiram