I want to make Vaseline soaked cottons balls for a survival kiti want them wrapped in aluminum/ tin foilHow can i do that so that they will burn for 30+ min?
Cut your squares of foil, then melt your vasaline using a double boiler (A saucepan with 1 of water and a bowl sitting on it will suffice) dip the cotton balls until saturated, and set each on a square of foil, and wrap it upStore them in a ziplock bag along with a couple disposable Bic lightersMatches are not nearly as reliable as lighters as long as the lighters remain dryOf course wet matches aren't reliable eitherThe difference is, a lighter will dry out and work if you shake it to get the water out and blow on the striker wheel and keep trying it until it lightsThis won't work with wet matchesWaterproof matches are not as reliable as they are touted to beI've had whole, new, dry packages of them that wouldnt light worth a damnI'd aviod flint and steel and Magnesium firestarters as these are overpriced gimics in a day when you could simply flick your Bic insteadLeave the flint things to the caveman wanna-be's and use a lighter like Modern ManYour home made firestarters should work quite wellI don't know that they'll burn a full 30 minutes, but they'll certainly burn long enough to get a good fire going.
