I’ve really been enjoying watching Clickspring’s videos recently, and it encouraged me to make one of his projects as a christmas gift for my father. As someone who’s into the outdoors, I thought a fire piston would be the perfect choice.
I had some aluminum round stock laying around in my (albeit small) scrap pile, and spent a few hours on the lathe shaping it into a functioning fire piston.
The fire piston is a really simple device, which uses a rod shoved into a cylinder sealed with O-rings, to suddenly compress the air inside, which will heat it up enough to ignite some material. Char cloth is commonly used.
The char cloth provides a burning ember that you can apply to your tinder and start a fire.
No matches, just the laws of physics!
Would you make one for another person
Thanks for your interest. At this point I’m not available to make any, but this project was inspired by the Clickspring version, which is available for sale here: https://clickspring.myshopify.com/products/the-clickspring-fire-piston