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Make a survival fire from a battery and staple

Check out this how-to video to start a fire using an AA battery and a staple. You can do this while listening to the classical guitar piece, "Malaguena" if you feel like it. It could save your life! With your battery: start by cutting the plastic away from the negative terminal. Watch the video survival training tutorial for more tips on starting an emergency fire!

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zulufri (9) 1 year ago

For additional pyrotechnique stuff one can throw the battery into the flames, wahahahahaha!

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ryan (2) 5 months ago

oh!

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Jabslacked 4 months ago

mm then the fire goes out and you screwed lol

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antony123 (-2) 1 year ago

brillient

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RickRoll (-3) 1 year ago

Brilliant too!

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gingerpuss (13) 1 year ago

If you have a knife, battery, staple and envelope then chances are you are the sort of person to have a lighter and/or box of matches handy.. surely !!

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Hodg (3) 11 months ago

yeah im sure you could use something other then a staple too. Most people carry a small utility knife just because but i do see what you mean about the battery. I would imagine that you would get the battery from some electronic device you had on you

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AngryBabyMonkey (-1) 1 year ago

wonderful. However....the gingerpuss has a point....are there found objects we can use?

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myca 1 year ago

little bit OK, is there something more?

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Fleetwood08 (3) 1 year ago

cool

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ABG46 1 year ago

Nice! I can make fire with my mind! LOL Just kiddin nice video

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drbraat (2) 1 year ago

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4uidrum (3) 1 year ago

Why don't you just use a match?

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sandman75 (-2) 1 year ago

dude, why did you do it off camera. this is fake.

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Amie (9) 1 year ago

no it totally works
i just did it

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stevenscottoddballz (1) 1 year ago

That is great! so I'll take my boss' schedule with me next time I go camping, thenuse the staple, & burn the schedule!

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zimzamy (-6) 10 months ago

fake you cant even see it

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zaneyusak (-1) 10 months ago

done that before

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venom20078 (-1) 9 months ago

THAT IS AWESOME DUDE. I"LL TAKE A BATTERY AND STAPLE WHEN I GO CAMPING THIS SUMMER.

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pnwoods 9 months ago

Very useful info. Thanks.

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RCIAN1957 8 months ago

Great

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al_01 (1) 8 months ago

nice...

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blahblahblahblahblah (-1) 8 months ago

didnt work for me

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URBAN79 (-1) 7 months ago

awesome! I will always remember to keep a battery in my car, oh and a paper clip... ;)

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Bowlburn (2) 7 months ago

it's not fake lol... the current passing through the small amount of metal in the staple causes it to heat up. a 9 volt battery and steel wool works really good too. just put both terminals into the wool then put wool in your tinder bundle.

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Shadowmaster 7 months ago

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suicide19915 (1) 7 months ago

hmmm or i can take the zippo out of my pocket use it till its dry then do that to light mt cigarettes cheaper than buying a good lighter i guess

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zeldaman1 (-2) 5 months ago

actually batteries are more expensive, especially just to mutilate one

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Kingddd333 (18) 5 months ago

Batteries are more expensive. Just buy a basic BIC lighter or whatever.

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http://Got2gab.com 7 months ago

Wow.

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mr kyle (7) 7 months ago

do you have to use steel wool?? or can you use something like a cotton ball?

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wiccan817 (1) 4 months ago

you need steel wool. the fact that its metal fibers make it conductive and thats what gets hot and starts the tinder on fire. i cotton ball wont work because its just cotton fiber in a ball rather than metal fibers in a ball.

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eatdirtfartdust 6 months ago

you can do this, then touch the staple to steel wool, to make a fire also.

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Mark182 6 months ago

just wondering how this works when it seems its only connected to the negative? Wouldn't it need both terminals as in the 9v with steel wool?

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wiccan817 (1) 4 months ago

no, it makes a spark because your under the negative partly inside the battery and then your touching the top of the negative. it would be the same as taping a piece of wire to each end and passing the wires by each other to create a spark.

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jimbob89 (-2) 6 months ago

cool

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meneci68 (-2) 6 months ago

i try it at home and it doesent work dude

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kangaroo6464 (1) 5 months ago

i never knew a battery and a staple could save my life...

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lalobon (1) 5 months ago

I'm gonna try it xD. looks great ty anyway

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Kingddd333 (18) 5 months ago

Does this work with a triple a battery? Because i never seem to use those....

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Bandit 210 (-1) 5 months ago

must try that !!

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Keneke (-1) 5 months ago

Pretty cool for only 1.5v battery. If it doesn't it's only because you used a weak battery. Yeh!, It will work even faster with a 9v but it can also explode if your not careful. The 1.5v is a good idea. Keep one in your pocked.

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ken joint 5 months ago

jury still out on that one, for me

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CRAZY EMINEM FAN (2) 5 months ago

carefull doing that if ur battery has mercury inside of it, u dont want that touching ur skin. Nice video though.

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immortal 5 months ago

Good Job ! hope it helps me to make a forest fire lol =PP

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pranthavar 4 months ago

Please be careful. I used my giger counter and found out that the radiation emitted from the battery jumped up to unacceptable levels that could potentially be dangerous. I think it's called fission or maybe it fusion. I get them confused. Notice that he had to do it in the cold. Because it's cold fusion!

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