The Ultimate Bushcraft/Prepper Firestarter? Home made. Cheap. 100% Waterproof and Reliable

okay we're going to need to make these up first and foremost is some wax this is just some cheap stuff I picked up from I don't know where to be honest it doesn't have any special can be said beta runs and it is really not that important next thing you'll need is a spatula or something some of those um pincers you get for barbecuing would be absolutely perfect you need some grease proof paper of some description it you're not really using much in this tool so again cheap as you can get it so we're going to be going up to smoke and you'll need some makeup hats diesel your standard just well pass really um again cheap as you can and you can also get the tiny circular ones instead of these big oval ones and last li you will need something to mount your wax in this is just an old in fact this was bought specifically for these magic biscuits they cost back quid or something it's a walk from somewhere cheap and nasty sand bill and bargain stuff is flimsy it's horrible but you're going to ruin anyway so let's get into the kitchen and uh make some pizza alright then first things first I need to cut up the wax into manageable chunks literally just slice it like you would an onion and you'll get some nice chunks and flakes like that I'm not going to make you a through loads of them choppin so avoiding lead a big tub full and I suggest you do the same after that sorry after that you're going to want to get down some baking paper I drew up in a minute the reason for this is so that when you dip your pads into your pan using be able to lay them out on here let them dry and that's it really camera's not fess up at the moment but we'll make do to do that you're there right so what we'll do is we'll now enough of these pads on the baking paper and then I'll reposition a camera and we'll get to melting the wax up and get in here is God my cooker work nice on a extremely low heat first place you can pump up a little bit just get some heat into it you don't want to be or you can already see this against a bit of a reaction so you're looking for it to get liquid as this is but you don't want to be throwing in loads of um heat into it in case it flashes up so now it's down to the lowest heat I can you'll start adding in some wax bit bigger chunk a bit listen see if we can get it to melt down what we're looking for when we do this is a really nice deep bath of whack so we can just play for as many as we can when we're done what we're going to do is um leave it to dry it'll dry up in a pan to start off next time a word on safety in the background well you can see it I've got a towel that's dunked in a um a big bucket of water so if anything goes wrong grab the towel dump it straight over the pan to put it out of also got co2 fire extinguisher so let's get this melted up we'll come back to it when we got a vital liquid wax oh yeah as you can see we're back to liquid there's a couple of tiny little bits of wax that still need to be melted we are currently about 10 mils deep she's going to make quite a few so we'll need to do with these the heat is on as low as it can is just to maintain it drop them in let them saturate then drip click now that's all there is to it nice and quick don't worry about overlay you should drop them in they saturate and they come right these will cool down a little bit literal you do from here very bad you say ah here we go I just got myself a little one tub everything's cooled down obviously to put them in kill them off and crack off the excess fu one tub them up seal the couple stick together rip ret you've got little bits of excess wax if you're really that bothered pick them all off still a bit warm actually once these are done you'll get a nice solid disc and these are going to be 100 cent waterproof as waxes and I'll show you the cool thing about them in a second so here there we go magic biscuits right I said I'll show you what was really cool about these menus ckets got tough full of the mayor for a start they're nice and solid they're waxy but they don't leave any city residues or anything else so nice and clean and like sub like Vaseline and that one as you can see next me has been sitting next to a tub of water or sitting in sorry another war give it a quick shake height as you can see they're lovely in heart bust it open you got some nice exposed edge there bend a bit so it can stand up Farah Steele and I'm not sure if you can see that that took a spark straight away and probably hear crackling away and we have fire straight out of the war now as you can see that burns quite well you can handle it you can maneuver it whoop there we go and that wok quite happily get your fire going straight away and you've got enough there to use it over time let's see if we can do this again so you've got exposed fibrous today's are going to get soaked up let's see what we can I think it's fair to say that that's had a thorough soaking flick off I'm not sure again if you can see that well then we go straight in the walk straight in and out of water it'll spit a little bit cool I wanna step up I think you can quite happily call that a fire starter that's the magic biscuits

Channel: GMC Crafts

Views: 571,927

Rating: 4.928493 out of 5

Keywords: Bushcraft, Camping, Survivalism

Id: uCni8yLXR3w

Length: 8min 14sec (494 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 25 2015