KSF Fire Kit
This kit contains everything you need to make a fire under virtually any conditions.
Each kit is contained in an OtterBox 1000 which ensures it is dry and ready to use when you need it most. The OtterBox is easily carried in your pack or on your belt in the OtterBox Holt. Though the OtterBox keeps the kit dry, every part of the KSF Fire Kit is completely functional wet so you can make fire in the most dire situations.
The contents of the kit are:
- Misch Metal Firesteel: A special blend of metals that when scraped with a scraper or the back of a knife produces a shower of very hot sparks. This firesteel produces little balls of molten metal that, with a bit of practice will easily light tinder.
- Hacksaw Blade: Used to scrape the firesteel for sparks.
- Tinder Disks: A specially prepared cotton disk which will take a spark from the firesteel and burn for several minutes to ignite your kindling. The Tinder Disks will burn even when wet.
- Fire Cards: A card specially treated to burn easily and for a long time. If it is shreaded, it will take a spark and work as tender. It contains a basic checklist for how to build a fire with the kit. By folding the card, you can create a lean-to with the Tinder Disks and Fuel Bars and Kindle Sticks. The cards will burn even when wet.
- Fuel Bars: These firestarter bars will serve as a hot burning fuel for your fire which burns long enough to get even wet wood burning. The Fuel Bars burn even when wet.
- Kindle Sticks: Wax impregnated sisal rope which will burn long and hot to help get your wood kindling burning. The Kindle Sticks, once lit, resist being blown out by the wind. Like the other elements of the KSF Fire Kit, the Kindle Sticks burn even when wet.
- Aluminum Foil: When you try to make fire in wet conditions, it is often helpful to have a barrier between the fledgling fire and the wet ground. The foil can be folded into a tray in which you get your fire going and then slide into place under your kindling and wood for the larger fire.