Collect a few pumice stones about the same size as a normal fire starter and keep them in a small jar of kero. Take one out as required, works very well. If you can find it in the fire after it goes out it can be re used.
-- Edited by grahamg on Tuesday 19th of May 2015 08:41:13 AM
Back in around the late 1940s and early 1950s all the houses in our suburb had wood stoves. Every household used to have firelighters which was a small block of porous material held in a wire frame and handle. These were kept soaking in a jar of kerosene, exactly as Grahamg suggests. After the fire was going the firelighter was removed using the handle, allowed to cool off and put back into the kerosene.
Isn't it amazing how things come around again?
So anyone wanting to use pumice stones all you have to do is enclose it in a wire frame with a handle and you are back into the middle of the last century.
If you haunt Vinnies shops and such other bargain places in the used cutlery areas you may be able to find and old chrome plated tea infuser or soap bubbler (cage that holds bar of plain soap - swished in wash up dish to make foamy).
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