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    Cyalume Light Stick Tinder

    Hi all!

    Firstly to anyone under the age of 16 please remember fire is dangerous and should be used in controlled circumstances!

    Apologies if this is common knowledge, had a scour through and cannot find any related posts.

    Cyalume chemical light sticks are obviously single use therefore probably do not feature in many peoples kits, however the used fluid can be re-used as tinder in a similar way to Vaseline on cotton wool, I experimented earlier today and it kept a cotton wool make up pad burning for around 2 minutes.

    another use is to cut off the top of the lightstick, insert cotton wool to form a wick and light as usual, with a spark or similar method. The one I tried earlier I put out after around 5 minutes as it was catching the plastic having burned the fluid.

    Obviously in a survival situation burning plastic would be less of an issue than staying alive but for practice and training purposes I would advise burning plastic is not the way ahead! Below are a few pictures of my findings.

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    Im glad you added about burning plastic, who knows what chemicals are going into the atmosphere and the ground.

    Interesting to see though, I've seen them used like this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrell freddy View Post

    Cyalume chemical light sticks are obviously single use therefore probably do not feature in many peoples kits
    Use them a lot on the dogs Search jacket when on ops so i always have a large stock of them...I'll remember this
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    Blimey you learn something every day on here. Poundland are doing packs of 2 large ones at the moment.Anyone know if they "go off?"

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    I have used the ones from poundland and still using some from 3 years ago and I know I still have some left over from when I was in the army stored in my garage.

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    not seen this trick before ta!
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    Quote Originally Posted by rawfish111 View Post
    not seen this trick before ta!

    Nor I!

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    Works with PE too
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sapper4083 View Post
    Works with PE too
    Indeed! also providing a morale boost when some of the younger lads duck for cover!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrell freddy View Post
    Indeed! also providing a morale boost when some of the younger lads duck for cover!!
    ROFL.... Memmories
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