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Topic: Making fire - charcloth question
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Anne-Marie
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posted 05-02-2001 01:28 AM
    
the charcloth I made (which seemed to work pretty good) was small linen squares (well washed linen worked best) put into a film can (the round metal kind) and stuck in the fire at the start of cooking dinner. By the next morning we had charcloth.it doesnt work with wool, by the way  , and the cotton flannel patches they sell for blackpowder folks work pretty well too. --AM -------------------- "Let Good Come of It"
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Phillipe de Pamiers
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posted 05-02-2001 08:34 AM
1) Take a shoe polish can, or a paint can, and poke a hole in the top w/a roofing nail. Keep the nail you will need it later.
2) Take small pieces of linen (gun patches work great, so do modern military cleaning patches). Place the cloth into the can, do not cram them in but make it a snug fit.
3) Close the can and place it in the fire. As the can heats up take a flame source and place it over the hole, it should light on fire. Allow it to "burn off" and then take the can from the fire.
4) Take the nail that you poked your hole with and place it back in the hole. Leave over night. When you open the can you should have black linen patches the feel kind of oily.You should now have char cloth. -------------------- Phillipe de Pamiers
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Doug Strong
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posted 05-02-2001 09:50 AM
Great! Very detailed Phillipe (nice to see you here, by the way.) Now forgive my "dashing urbanite" ignorance but how do I start a fire?  -------------------- Doug Strong
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chef de chambre
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posted 05-02-2001 10:15 AM
With fusil & briquette -Flint & steel. I understand tow works well for tinder. -------------------- Bob R.
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Phillipe de Pamiers
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posted 05-02-2001 11:18 AM
Take the char cloth and some dry grass or leaves. Make a little nest and strike your flint with steel, getting the sparks to hit the charcloth. The charcloth will get everything going pretty well. Add this to the pre-built teepee structure and pray.The charcloth will smolder until you give it some extras oxegyn. The stuff is great. -------------------- Phillipe de Pamiers
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Buran
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posted 05-03-2001 12:59 PM
quote:
Originally posted by chef de chambre:
With fusil & briquette -Flint & steel. I understand tow works well for tinder.
Fusil and briquette - are these old words for flint and steel, and if so which one's which?Fusil is the modern French word for rifle, non? Sounds like a barbeque for French marksmen... BTW...
 I had no success before with this technology until I realized that the flint is used to strike glowing chips off the steel, rather than the other way around. Oops! [ 05-03-2001: Message edited by: Buran ] -------------------- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/California_Viking_Age
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gaukler
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posted 05-03-2001 02:46 PM
I've been told that the can/charcloth tinder is modern- afeter all, it requires a tin can for its production.
A fairly reliable source prefers the flat fungus that grows on birch trees, pounded to bits, and boiled in urine for three days (replinish urine as needed), then boiled dry. It apparently catches a spark very well (lots of nitrates) but smells just awful. Claimed to be a period recipe.
See http://www.uio.no/conferences/imc7/NFotm2000/January2000.htm for the Norwegian Fungus of the Month.
"The substance of the lung is dilatable and extensible like the tinder made from a fungus. But it is spongy and if you press it, it yields to the
force which compresses it, and if the force is removed, it increases again to its original size." -- Leonardo da Vinci, late 15th century ( quoted on a Stanford web site).
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sophistication of his equipment was astonishing.
... a copper ax, a yew-
wood bow, a quiver and fourteen cornus-wood arrows, he also carried a tinder
fungus for lighting fires,... " http://www.lincstrust.co.uk/species/fungi/hoof.html http://www.zetatalk.com/shelter/tshlt06n.htm mark -------------------- mark@medievalwares.com
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