FireSteel Army

this ferro rod is great for beginners so i bought 3 of them.

It works and looks like it's a quality-made product. Feels good to have it if I ever need it.

With high expectation we purchased two of these. On one we cleaned the ferro rod removing the outer black coating. With each strike it did produce many sparks, thus ready for our tests. Beginning simple using tissue paper stripped to smaller pieces creating a birdsnest configuration, we attempted to light it with Light My Fire. With the tool on the tissue paper or barely above it, it put out many sparks, however none of the sparks could light tissue paper.Next test we used toilet paper (TP) ripping it to shreds making a birdsnest bundle. Again Light My Fire would make many sparks, but not catch the TP on fire. For another test we used regular kitchen paper towel. Ripping it to pieces creating a birdsnest, same-same, many sparks without them lighting the papers. We tried regular ole newspaper, same results or lack there of. We were very confused. Yes scrapping ferro rod clearly produces sparks, but not fire on what should be easily flamable paper products.Final test was with a cotton balls. Pulling apart the cotton balls created more surface area and small fibers for sparks to catch on. Again the birdsnest, it took the Light My Fire many strikes producing many sparks, finally we get the cotton ball burning.Our conclusion, yes the Light My Fire does produce many sparks, however sparks were not hot enough to catch those paper products on fire. Over a few days the above tests were attempted numerous time with those papers, dried grass and the like. Each time the rod produced sparks but nothing caught on fire. Sadly, we returned both Light My Fire boxes to Amazon.

well made and works exactly as it should.

I purchased a Light My Fire 2.0 Army ferro rod last year and I was happy with my purchase then. This past summer, I went on a camping trip and took that one with me and it worked great. This past week I was looking for it and could not find it and I thought I might have left it 200 miles away at my campsite. As I really liked it, I decided to replace it with the same model only to discover that Light My Fire has superseded it with the bio plastic one. I applaud Light My Fire for using recycled plastic but the new model is different from the older model.I ended up finding the first one I purchased so I took pictures to compare. The new bio version comes with a shorter lanyard and it is too short. I recommend replacing it. My biggest disappointment is that they changed the ferrocerium composition in this version. You can see from my pictures that the rod is different. The old model (on top) was struck more times but looks like it has been barely used and trying to light a vasoline covered cotton ball took more strikes. I think they replaced a harder compound for a softer one which is why I am disappointed. I do plan on keeping it in a pack so I am covered in an emergency.

Really good ferrocerium rod and striker, both the Rod and Striker have a thumb divot making it easy to hold and strike and as an added bonus there is a built-in whistle on the striker .I will buy again thanks 😊

Reliable fire starting resource, produces a big spark with each strike unlike some cheap competitors.

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