Rubber Inner Tube

[Quixoticgeek]

Has anyone got any experience with using Rubber Inner Tube as tinder for lighting fires? How easily does it take a spark from a firesteel ? I've just had to change one on my bike after it split, and am wondering alternative uses.

Cheers

J

 

[DavidJT]

Doesn't take a spark, but burns furiously even when wet.

i have strips wrapped around a bic lighter, kept in leg pocket.

 

[Toddy]

Slice some up into bits about the size of an elastoplast and pack them in your kit. They won't go off, they won't mind wet or dry, they don't pollute anything in your pack or pocket, only weigh a couple of grams, and they work brilliantly. Won't light with a spark but they will burn for long enough to get a fire going. I know some folks who have cut 'dogtags' from them that they thread onto their keyring with a peanut lighter. They can even look kind of neat....leaf shapes for instance

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Jared]

If you slice it fine enough it will take a spark.

[video=youtube;9WPigQdfcBU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WPigQdfcBU[/video]

13m 50s in.


Also make ranger bands with them, useful for hold stuff together/shut.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Ranger-Bands-Rubber-Bands-on-Steroids/

 

[Toddy]

Tomorrow we will play

M

 

[santaman2000]

If you decide to carry some, don't cut it into "strips." Instead cut across the tube making "bands" about an inch or so wide. use then as "ranger bands" on your gear until you need to burn them.

http://www.patrolbase.co.uk/images/XL/ranger-bands.jpg

 

[Toddy]

I don't carry so much kit that will happily wrap with bands.....the ones I'm using just now came from a car tyre inner tube. The strips slip into pockets, or onto keyrings Besides a 6x2cm rectangle is plenty.

M

 

[DavidJT]

If you slice it fine enough it will take a spark.

[video=youtube;9WPigQdfcBU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WPigQdfcBU[/video]

13m

I stand corrected! Not easy though.

 

[Toddy]

If I'd gotten a flame from fluffy stuff that burns away quickly, that's when the rubber is excellent....it catches, and then it burns long enough to get a fire going.

M

 

[Big Stu 12]

I keep my zippo with a inner tube around it instead of fuel evaporting in a few days it last a couple of weeks , as every one says, also handy for holding thigs together/ Boxes shut, can be used as a shock absorber for tarp/tent guy lines in rough weather,

If you get some differnt sizes you can use them to seal other tubs with liquid in, I have a couple of BDH containers for Canoeing that I have inner tube around the lid.. nice and snugg keeps ther water out ,

 

[Toddy]

Get a decent peanut lighter Mine lasts a year and still lights first time. No rubber band, just hanging on my keyring.

M

 

[Big Stu 12]

Get a decent peanut lighter Mine lasts a year and still lights first time. No rubber band, just hanging on my keyring.

M

Had the zippo a while it was given to me.. not sure I would of brought one..., I tend to use a turbo lighter if i need one, but hardly use it

 

[Toddy]

Aren't turbo's excellent
Mine was a present from Russ for my birthday one year and it's just the best lighter I've ever used Doesn't hang from my keyright though, but going out/out, it's in my pocket.

atb,
M

 

[Chris the Cat]

Off thread, sorry!
Mary, who makes a good peanut lighter?

C.

 

[Toddy]

I'm sorry, I don't know. I have had one that was dreadful because it constantly dried up in a couple of months, though changing the O ring really helped.
The one I use now came from ebay, from China (where I think they are mostly all made anyway) and it's been brilliant.

I think I followed a link that Rik_uk3 posted....

Just had a look at mine and there are no markings on it, and it lit first strike

Might be worth a thread on lighters ?

atb,
M

 

[santaman2000]

I don't carry so much kit that will happily wrap with bands.....the ones I'm using just now came from a car tyre inner tube. The strips slip into pockets, or onto keyrings Besides a 6x2cm rectangle is plenty.

M

Some do, some don't. I don't use them often myself. But they're always a welcome item when I do need them.

 

[ozzy1977]

cant beat a bit of inner tube and a turbo lighter.

 

[lannyman8]

you can get inner tube to light better is you fluff it up with a knife blade, just scrape away at it till you get a small pile of very very fine rubber, almost powder like...

works a treat but takes some time to get a little pile of the stuff....

chris.

 

[Bungie]

I have a couple of bike inner tube cut into strips, they are around the outside of my altoid tin to hold it closed

 

[W0lf]

Surely you are able to find some
Easily accessible flammable substance which one end of the inner tube can be dipped into to make easily lit by a fire steel?! Hymn. I think I have found a new mini project ...


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