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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Wipe some kitchen roll in your grill tray and use that to light the fire
In the woods I'm not so sure, I think you need flint and hay or summat. So as long as I could fashion a vibrator from something I should survive alright.
(, Sun 28 Dec 2014, 21:14, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)
this is better
I was thinking about finding two pencils, wearing down both ends to expose the 'lead', connecting to the mains via a 40watt incandescent lightbulb (IE, break into the lamp wire and split the live wire out & cut it, and connect each loose end of it to a pencil) then use the two pencils, held wrapped in fabric, to make an arc light over some tinder

Dangerous but at about 120v assuming the lead-carbon arc had a similar resistance to the bulb coil, it'd be pretty hot without being entirely lethal to the user
(, Mon 29 Dec 2014, 18:29, Reply)

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