SL3-OD Military Edition Fire Starter and Tinder Quik

Work great with the included tinder and more tinder is available on Amazon. Does not produce as hot of a spark as a ferro rod but if you have a good tinder with you these do work great.

Excellent product, compact easy to use

Works well

This fire starter works great. Wish it had the allen wrench and spare flint like other same models in which new flint can be inserted. It is supposed to be US military issue, but there is nothing to this effect stated on the container. The striker can indeed be operated with one hand in the event the user has a hand injury to one hand. It throws nice sparks and easily ignites the supplied Tinder Quik tabs and other materials such as treated cotton balls, fabric or natural materials. Don't know how many strikes the flint will produce and guessing a couple hundred. I wanted a military issue item for memorabilia and not certain about this item. The postal shipping system is a bit slow.

Excellent piece of survival gear

Works as expected - very reliable!

So, I bought this because I was working on a project where I wanted to make the smallest most compact survival kit. Long story short, I ordered one of these to try out. Out.Stand.Ing. The striker is so tiny and light, and shoots out a shower of sparks every time. The tinderquick boggles my mind. I read it could be lit wet, just shake it out and fray the edges. I figured that was a best case scenario. I left a couple in a glass of water overnight, with the striker. The striker took a few pulls to spark, but everything lit. It did fail when I soaked them in water and then froze them. (Don't judge, I do mountaineering and was curious to see if it would still work in those conditions.). But I already have several, but I am ordering more so I can toss one in every pack and jacket I own. I agree with another reviewer, that the case is flimsy. But here is what I do (from my compact survival kit experiment): -Take an old bicycle inner tube. (if you don't bike, buy a bike and ride until you have a ruined inner tube). -Cut a six inch section. -Take some vulcanizing cement (for repairing rubber) and seal one end. -Stuff the tinderquick and striker in there. -Seal the other end. Trim as needed. The great thing is- this set up is waterproof, tiny, lightweight, and you can use the tinderquick to light the rubber. Toxic as all get out, but if you are trying to burn wet wood, this gives you a bit more heat and time. Oh, and a 8 pack of tinder quick on Amazon is (as of this writing) about half the cost of this kit. Just order this. These are like chainsaws, you can't have too many.

My friend and I are trying to become better by practicing fire starting with emergency fire starting tools in bad weather conditions. We were in his backyard in Michigan next to the woods. 5F currently and it was 40F and sunny the day before, so it was a mix of wet and snow. We were not in danger at any point in time, we could have walked back to his house within 5 minutes. As my main kit: I had an emergency stove with alcohol pads, and a ferro rod and this Spark-Lite kit. I know you should pack a BIC lighter, but we intentionally set ourselves outside in a 5F degree weather and try to start a fire without it; BICs do not reliably work under freezing temperatures unless you keep them near your body heat so gas flows normally. We did not use a BIC on purpose. We tried hard to collect kindling and find something in the woods to start the fire (there was no birch bark available and at there was at least a foot of snow on the ground so downed trees were not easy to find) we tried different methods to start the fire. We tried several woods (oaks, pine) with the backspine of our knives to shave off some of it and use it to start the fire. We striked our ferro rods at least 100 times on many of the different options with no luck. The trees were either still green or wet with snow. The Spark-Lite kit with the cotton and spark tool started the fire in one strike. Put it below our kindling and fire worked wonders, we had the fire run for a couple hours no problem. We learned we need to practice more with the ferro rods and different kindlings. But if you My friend purchased one next day as part of the emergency kit.

Amazing fire starter! Easy to use. You feel amazing when you spark the wheel and the cotton swab lights right up. Best find on Amazon. I've bought 3 so far. One for my truck, one for my backyard, and one for my wife's car.

This is like a toy, not worth 5$. If this was military use, then I fill bad for this guys. Cheap small plastic box with sticker on it. Started is made from cheap plastic to. Cheap, Cheap, Cheap, beware. For this money you can buy mutch better starter kit.