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    Since they burn so long, I wonder if you could take one that you have wrapped in foil - poke a small hole in it and insert a section of one of the wicks that you made and use it as a candle?
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    Crash, I'll try and let you know if it'll work.
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    Neat ideas here. Used motor oil can be used as a fire starter, even on wet wood, but it takes a flame and some time to get started. It seems to require more heat to make it burn. So motor oil will not catch a spark.

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    The problem with motor oil is it's toxic.

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    Yep. Motor oil will mess up any area you pour it on. Worse, anything left can float off in the rain.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    Yep. Motor oil will mess up any area you pour it on. Worse, anything left can float off in the rain.
    that isnt too good to use motor oil . it only burns well on a well seated fire wiuth deep coals, and the sooty black smoke is laden with unburned petrolium
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    Default fire starter

    Waxed cardboard, found in grocery store dumpsters, works great, already

    to burn just cut into strips.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chimpac View Post
    Waxed cardboard, found in grocery store dumpsters, works great, already

    to burn just cut into strips.
    Good idea. Just a word of caution though. The items that were originally in those boxes, although in a plastic bag (meat, chicken, etc,) - if that bag leaked into the box at all the box could now be contaminated with bacteria.
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