guys for this video I want to show you a
cool trick you could do with safety
matches now safety matches are different
than strike-anywhere matches because you
cannot strike these anywhere they have
to be struck on the red strip on the
side of the box in order for them to
light off whereas with strike-anywhere
matches you can basically strike them on
any rough surface and they’ll ignite so
what happens if you have lots of matches
left over but your red striker strip
powder is gone from previous experiments
or maybe it gets wet saturated or ripped
off to the box it’s not gonna work at
all it’s just all coming
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there is still away you can light these
matches and I’m going to show you how to
do it right now now even though these
are not strike-anywhere matches if you
find a surface that’s rough and long
enough you might be able to build up
enough friction to get them to light off
like this that’s about as easy as it
gets
now the key to making this work is
putting your finger right under the head
of the match then pressing it to the
surface and dragging it in a nice long
stroke if you do short strokes there’s
not going to be enough friction for this
to light off but if you can drag it 8 to
10 inches you can see the light off no
problem this works because the friction
between the match head and the wood is
enough to ignite the potassium chlorate
just make sure you get your finger out
of the way of the flame before it burns
you the reason this works is because
this wood is very dry it’s very rough
and there’s a long enough striking
surface for the friction to build up
where it can ignite now that may not
always be the case if your wood was damp
or if you had a surface that was too
smooth it wouldn’t work the same so you
see this stick is moist I actually
dropped in the river and matches will
not light on it but if we take a stick
and rub it back and forth as if we were
trying to start a fire by rubbing sticks
together the friction will actually
drive out the moisture and this has
become a very good striking surface I
don’t actually want to start a fire by
rubbing sticks but it is a very similar
concept by rubbing the two sticks
together we’ve actually generated quite
a bit of heat which is charred wood that
means it’s driven the moisture off and
this is very warm right now now that
should be dry enough we take a match
boom and it lights
I got light it off in less than an inch
big difference okay so it’s been about
five minutes since we rub the sticks
together this is already cooled down
quite a bit but surprisingly it still
works really really well the side of a
matchbox is red phosphorus and when you
strike potassium chlorate it generates a
chemical reaction what we’re doing here
is we’re actually building enough
to auto-ignite the testing cord itself
so you can see even if you find a moist
piece of wood you can very easily drive
off the moisture and strike your matches
how cool is that
this almost works as well as the red
striker strip paper does by itself so
there you have a guys using a few random
sticks you can find on a nature hike
you can now turn safety matches in to
strike anywhere thanks so much for
joining me for this video and I’ll be
looking for you in the next video talk
to you then
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cool trick you could do with safety
matches now safety matches are different
than strike-anywhere matches because you
cannot strike these anywhere they have
to be struck on the red strip on the
side of the box in order for them to
light off whereas with strike-anywhere
matches you can basically strike them on
any rough surface and they’ll ignite so
what happens if you have lots of matches
left over but your red striker strip
powder is gone from previous experiments
or maybe it gets wet saturated or ripped
off to the box it’s not gonna work at
all it’s just all coming
[Music]
there is still away you can light these
matches and I’m going to show you how to
do it right now now even though these
are not strike-anywhere matches if you
find a surface that’s rough and long
enough you might be able to build up
enough friction to get them to light off
like this that’s about as easy as it
gets
now the key to making this work is
putting your finger right under the head
of the match then pressing it to the
surface and dragging it in a nice long
stroke if you do short strokes there’s
not going to be enough friction for this
to light off but if you can drag it 8 to
10 inches you can see the light off no
problem this works because the friction
between the match head and the wood is
enough to ignite the potassium chlorate
just make sure you get your finger out
of the way of the flame before it burns
you the reason this works is because
this wood is very dry it’s very rough
and there’s a long enough striking
surface for the friction to build up
where it can ignite now that may not
always be the case if your wood was damp
or if you had a surface that was too
smooth it wouldn’t work the same so you
see this stick is moist I actually
dropped in the river and matches will
not light on it but if we take a stick
and rub it back and forth as if we were
trying to start a fire by rubbing sticks
together the friction will actually
drive out the moisture and this has
become a very good striking surface I
don’t actually want to start a fire by
rubbing sticks but it is a very similar
concept by rubbing the two sticks
together we’ve actually generated quite
a bit of heat which is charred wood that
means it’s driven the moisture off and
this is very warm right now now that
should be dry enough we take a match
boom and it lights
I got light it off in less than an inch
big difference okay so it’s been about
five minutes since we rub the sticks
together this is already cooled down
quite a bit but surprisingly it still
works really really well the side of a
matchbox is red phosphorus and when you
strike potassium chlorate it generates a
chemical reaction what we’re doing here
is we’re actually building enough
to auto-ignite the testing cord itself
so you can see even if you find a moist
piece of wood you can very easily drive
off the moisture and strike your matches
how cool is that
this almost works as well as the red
striker strip paper does by itself so
there you have a guys using a few random
sticks you can find on a nature hike
you can now turn safety matches in to
strike anywhere thanks so much for
joining me for this video and I’ll be
looking for you in the next video talk
to you then
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