Fire by condom

[Fenlander]

Having been sent a link to this video;

http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/64744/Use_Condoms_to_Make_Fire

I was challenged by a friend to make it work.....

I put some water into a condom and tied the end (based on my experience for best results it's best to rinse the condom a couple of times before you try it).

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I used both crampball and true tinder fungus for the experiment.

Form the condom into a lens shape and focus the sunlight onto the tinder (you will need to adjust the shape and focal distance to get the strongest focal point)

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With crampball, once you have a good focal point it will ignite almost immediately (true tinder fungus was a bit slower)

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I have to say that this works far quicker than I expected it to!

 

[spamel]

Another reason to carry one in your survival tin! I cannot believe that actually works, pretty impressive stuff.

 

[Fenlander]

I cannot believe that actually works, pretty impressive stuff.

That's exactly what i thought......until I tried it!

 

[British Red]

Thats awesome Kevin - you just know I'm going to have to do this don't you?

Red

 

[Fenlander]

Thats awesome Kevin - you just know I'm going to have to do this don't you?

Red

i would be very disappointed if you didn't

 

[Exbomz]

And now I have an excuse for the wife as to why I want to carry one in the wallet

 

[Goose]

Looks a different idea.
When you warn us to rinse the condom before use :tongue-ti I am all for recycling but you can take things too far!

 

[bikething]

I thought this was going to be some sort of friction firelighting method

would it work with an ordinary plastic bag? or any type of clear-ish balloon material? - can't really try it here, as it's been cloudy all day

 

[Sickboy]

Think i'll give that a go next weekend, have used glasses etc before but that's superb, not sure if it'll work with the ticklers though

 

[rich59]

I thought this was going to be some sort of friction firelighting method

would it work with an ordinary plastic bag? or any type of clear-ish balloon material? - can't really try it here, as it's been cloudy all day

I have succeeded with a plastic bag. But as the natural shape isn't very round it is hard to get a good focus. Took about 20 minutes of fiddling till it worked.

Wine glasses with water can impress the guests to lunch.

 

[torjusg]

Neat idea.

 

[Greg]

Cool trick, another fire lighting method for my survival club lesson plan - once I have done it my self of course.

 

[Dave Budd]

that's brillieant! Though I must admit, when I first read the title I was thinking it friction fire lighting