Kaz vs Wild 3 ferrocerium rod barbeque!! In trying to demonstrate how to use natural fibers and a ferrocerium rod to make fire for dinner, we had to abort the project. Just as I was getting everything set up good ole Mother Nature decided it was time for the rains to begin. Little did we know she made it rain continually on and off for the reminder of the survival trip. Again, this is the exact reason we practice, for the challenge of gaining experience before SHTF!! As always, I encourage you to practice survival as well!! Ferrocerium is a man-made metallic material that gives off a large number of hot sparks at temperatures at 3,000 °F (1,650 °C) when scraped against a rough surface (pyrophoricity), such as ridged steel. Because of this property it is used in many applications, such as clockwork toys, strikers for welding torches, so-called "flint-and-steel" fire-starters in emergency survival kits, and cigarette lighters, as the initial ignition source for the primary fuel. It is also commonly called ferro rod and most commonly of all, mistakenly, flint (particularly in cigarette lighters). As tinder-igniting campfire starter rods it is sold under such trade names as Blastmatch, Fire Steel, and Metal-Match for survivalists and bushcraft hobbyists. Even some manufacturers and resellers mistakenly call them "magnesium" rods. It is also known in Europe as Auermetall after its inventor Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach. While ferrocerium-and-steels function in a similar way to actual flint-and-steel in fire starting, ferrocerium actually takes on the role that steel played in traditional methods: When small shavings of it are removed quickly enough the heat generated by friction is enough to ignite those shavings. The sparks generated are in fact tiny pieces of burning metal. In traditional flint-and-steel fire-starting systems (using actual flint), it is the tiny shavings of the steel removed in the striking process that burn, rather than the flint. The sparking is a result of cerium's low temperature pyrophoricity, its ignition temperature occurring between 150 and 180 degrees celsius. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrocerium

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