{"id":2645,"date":"2017-02-14T22:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2017-02-14T22:52:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:52:55","slug":"fire-piston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"Fire Piston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really been enjoying watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/clickspring\">Clickspring&#8217;s<\/a> videos recently, and it encouraged me to make one of his projects as a christmas gift for my father. As someone who&#8217;s into the outdoors, I thought a fire piston would be the perfect choice.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2646\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4838-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4838-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4838-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4838-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2647\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4839-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4839-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4839-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4839-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The char cloth provides a burning ember that you can apply to your tinder and start a fire.<\/p>\n<p>No matches, just the laws of physics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really been enjoying watching Clickspring&#8217;s videos recently, and it encouraged me to make one of his projects as a christmas gift for my father. As someone who&#8217;s into the outdoors, I thought a fire piston would be the perfect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}