I was wondering if any of you had ever used a tinder tube? It looks pretty simple to make.
http://www.norwestcompany.com/tgtindertube.jpg
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I was wondering if any of you had ever used a tinder tube? It looks pretty simple to make.
http://www.norwestcompany.com/tgtindertube.jpg
common around muzzle loading, it works pretty good if you protect the char end with the tube. And keep it very very dry
Never used one and I don't do muzzle load. Is it in the same league with char cloth or is char cloth better in your opinion?
Is it used in a match lock muzzle loader or in some other way?
Doesn't that kind of rope melt under fire? :confused: I've heard and seen a fire piston (there:D)... like a plunger that goes into a tube with tinder at the bottom and the heat generated fires up the tinder. Oh wait,, that has got to be cotton rope with no nylon in it..Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Well, I assumed it was cotton rope. clothes line rope is what we call it. I don't have one, I just found the picture. I think I'm gonna make one just to play with. I would imagine any kind of metal will work to smother the ember. I may have some copper tube come to think of it.
That is a fire piston Woodwose.Quote:
Originally Posted by woodwose
Tinder tube works well if kept dry is another option to char. I keep one in each of my flint n steel kits (rope must be 100% coton)
Thanks alphnumeric(:rolleyes:) Does it work as well as char cloth?
I assume that you pull the ember through and inside the metal tube. fire needs air, fuel and ignition. If you take away one element of the 'triangle' the fire goes out. If the ember is inside the tube, wouldn't that take the air away from the equation? I would be interested to know if the ember stays lit. Also, where would you carry this ember and how long could you carry it before (if) it burns through to the other side of the tube?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Here's my uneducated, groping along in the dark, cut at it. Once burned, the end of the cotton cord would act much like char cloth in that it would be able to catch and hold an ember to start your tinder. Then, just as you described, you could slide the ember inside the tube and snuff it out (the emphasis fire triangle) . When it's time to start the next fire just push the cord through so the burned end is exposed and wash, rinse, repeat as necessary. (okay, let it catch another ember, jeepers. I can't have any fun).
Much like diamond strike anywhere matches (oh, don't get me started on those again) cotton cord (rope) does not seem to be a well stocked item. Or, I should say, a stocked item, because no one seems to have it either. What is this world comin' to?
Glad you clarified that Rick,I thought for a second there I was reading the shampoo bottle again.LMAO!
Just keepin' ya on yur toes.... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Hey! What do I look like, a ballerina?
Been quiet for a while but now gotta add this lil diddy. I hunt only with a flintlock muzzleloader and with guys that only hunt flintlock, we have never seen this except with the guys that use firelocks (in re-enacting) so its not that common. I use a flint striker and have never had a problem and cattail fluff to get my fires going, sometimes dried moss, or just plain lint from a pocket. Dried leaves and the such, but that rope thingy is not as common around muzzleloading as some think. But this might just be where I shoot, hunt and trek.
I prefer char or chaga the tinder tube is my backup and is kinda fun to enlighten a greenhorn with when i use it an flint n steel to light his cig or pipe for him in the time it takes him to find the wherabouts of his bic
Was I pretty close on my explanation in post #10? I've never used one but that's how it looks like it works to me. I want to put one together just to play with it. More a novelty than anything else.
I finally tracked down some cotton cord and field trialled the tinder tube today. I used a six inch piece of 3/16" rope inside a 3/16" threaded brass lamp nipple (see pic below). I used the threaded nipple because I thought the threads might be handy if my fingers were really cold. It would give me something to hold on to rather than the smooth surface of the copper tube. Otherwise, it looks just like the pictures above. It worked every bit a well as char cloth. So I now have another backup in my fire kit.
By the way, for those of you that have been worried silly over my inability to find strike anywhere matches (I appreciate your concern), I did acquire some and coated them with paraffin wax. So I have some storm matches to go along with my tinder tube. Ain't life sweet?
Jute rope can work as well, even not charred. It needs to be frayed to get it going and you need a few good hot sparks.
I found this on the internet the other day. I thought that you would like to see it http://goinggear.com/index.php?main_...ducts_id=10for yourself.
Well now. Don't you just hate it when someone steals your idea? I mean, it's okay for me to steal it. I just don't want other folks doing it.
You could make one of those with an empty butane lighter, a short length of aluminum arrow shaft or copper pipe or whatever, some JB weld and cotton clothesline for A LOT(yes a lot is TWO words LOL) less than 15 bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by vthompson
I didn't remember ever seeing this before, until about half way through the thread. Then I remembered my dad and his friends used the stubs of aluminum arrow shafts left when the shaft was cut to length for all kinds of things, including a lamp with a cotton clothes line soaked with oil of some kind on a base made of scrap wood and a soda pop bottle cut with one of those bottle cutters for crafters that were all the rage in the 70s. They used the top half as the "globe" of the lamp. They also made a tinder tube arrangement. Thanks for bringing this up I remembered a lot of stuff I'd forgotten about homemade gear my dad and his elders and friends made.
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