Franco wrote:Final bit about fire starters ( I promise)
Doesn't have to be now that there's a specific topic for it.
I found it was very cold in the Walls recently, water bottles froze in the tent again (don't like it when that happens).
I have a shellite stove - shellite is somewhat more volatile than metho.
It lights okay, temp doesn't make a lot of difference. But you need to get a flame to light it with.
My lighters I use in the bushwalk stove kit are Cricket brand ones, with the little button that you need to press in before pushing the electronic / piezo striker down to get it to light.
I use them so the button doesn't get pressed when it's stored in the kit with the stove, so it doesn't run out of gas.
It was so cold I could not get either of these lighters to ignite, and had to resort to using a match. I carry waterproof matches and a striker for them in a film cannister.
The lighters, in the pocket for a while, worked again.
Now I am thinking about one of
these.
The flame is more like a blow-torch than the flame of a standard lighter.