Giant heap of lint burned to show just how flammable the stuff i

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Link directly to the reason everybody reads the story: the video

Unfortunately the lint used was heavily compressed (~700 pounds on a standard pallet) so the massive fireball I was expecting didn’t happen.

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I guess I should keep my belly button away from open flames.

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dryer lint, paper egg carton, some melted wax (thrift a dedicated double boiler for melting) and you’ve got cheap and effective fire starters.

Also it’s really cool how readily/thoroughly melted wax will soak into the stuff.

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Thanks!

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As an adult, my friends and I started using dryer lint to get campfires going while backpacking.
It works so well that it seems obvious, but as a kid in Boy Scouts it never occurred to us.

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