Day 8: Creating THE FIRE Piston…
The Fire Piston: Another not very well known primitive technique is the fire piston. For those of you that understand how a diesel engine works without a spark plug in essence, if you take all of the heat in a large space and instantly put it into a small space it can create a spark. Put some char cloth in that space when the spark goes off and you have a coal, then transfer it to a nest add O2, and you have fire. With the fire piston it is also all about technique. I have a little Mantra that I like to use called hit, pause, pull. This technique keeps the char cloth under pressure for just enough time to allow the spark to take hold and not so much time that it suffocates the flame.
