Having got interested in firepistons recently I thought i'd buy a proper one before I make one to have something to compeer it against.
So I found a recommendation for a ebayer selling cheep and good quality ones on this site, and bought one. It is a good system. It has two Vaseline wells in the body and a very efficient fire starting tin (I thought it was a gimmick but it does work extremely well). But the piston is not very versatile and its a bit fidly.
Anyway, the mane problem is that it doesn't have a hole in the end of the piston rod, it has a rubber washer tacked to the end. So it requires you to stick the tinder to the end with vaseline, this does work with the tinder provided (blocks of carbonized plant fiber) But I cant get anything ells to stick to it.
So my question is, is there a nether way to attach the tinder to the end, I was wondering if I could take the washer off the end and put a traditional gasket on it. Or is there anything ells I could do to attach tinder to it.
Here it is.
This is it opened up.
Heres a close up of the rubber seal on the end of the piston rod.
The really annoying thing is that after I ordered this one I found a nether fire piston seller on ebay selling a more traditional one for the same price, so the other option is to keep this as a backup and get one of them as well.
Any comments are welcome, thanks in advance.
Heres the other one if your interested http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....EWA:PIC&viewitem=&item=140059991298&rd=1&rd=1
So I found a recommendation for a ebayer selling cheep and good quality ones on this site, and bought one. It is a good system. It has two Vaseline wells in the body and a very efficient fire starting tin (I thought it was a gimmick but it does work extremely well). But the piston is not very versatile and its a bit fidly.
Anyway, the mane problem is that it doesn't have a hole in the end of the piston rod, it has a rubber washer tacked to the end. So it requires you to stick the tinder to the end with vaseline, this does work with the tinder provided (blocks of carbonized plant fiber) But I cant get anything ells to stick to it.
So my question is, is there a nether way to attach the tinder to the end, I was wondering if I could take the washer off the end and put a traditional gasket on it. Or is there anything ells I could do to attach tinder to it.
Here it is.
This is it opened up.
Heres a close up of the rubber seal on the end of the piston rod.
The really annoying thing is that after I ordered this one I found a nether fire piston seller on ebay selling a more traditional one for the same price, so the other option is to keep this as a backup and get one of them as well.
Any comments are welcome, thanks in advance.
Heres the other one if your interested http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....EWA:PIC&viewitem=&item=140059991298&rd=1&rd=1