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How to start a fire with jumper cables and a pencil
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14 Jan ’14 - 11:26 am
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looks like I'm throwing some number 2's into the truck

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My first smart ass answer is: The next time I'm lost in the woods and all I have is a 12v battery, jumper cables, a pencil and knife, this will really come in handy.

My second smart ass answer is couldn't have just tapped the two cables together to get sparks and create a fire that way?

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15 Jan ’14 - 7:26 am
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you don't have that in your BOB already? rookie :)

I don't know I guess in a stranded vehicle situation it would be good to have as many options as possible

I wish he showed a better shot of the pencil, it looks like there's no sparking, just the wood starts smoking and creates the fire

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Yeah, I assume theres just enough conductivity in the graphite to heat up and ignite the wood.

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I wonder how well a toaster element would be for something like that, would be reusable

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