you're friendly sweet how to use the magnesium fire starter and striker this is one of our newest survival kit bundles and it includes the following three waterproof solid magnesium bars with embedded Flint's or fire starters it is also covered in black coating to protect your clothes from stains and then it also has three serrated metal strikers which can also serve as a small sole and finally three extra long chains the total up to 17.5 inches which you can use to connect the magnesium and striker for this tutorial I will demonstrate how you can start a fire with this survival kit the first thing that you need to do is to make shavings of the magnesium we need the magnesium and shavings or in a powder light form in order to make fire as they are highly flammable this way in solid form however they are entirely fireproof to make the shavings simply take the serrated metal striker and then use two saw like edge to shave away on the magnesium bar the trick here is to make enough shavings about the size of a penny is fine and that's around point 75 inch while are you doing this you can keep your tinder such as dry grass creeps paper or bark nearby to the pile now that you're done with the shaving action is the Flint or fire starter part of the magnesium bar and the flat edge of the metal striker strike this striker on the flame and let the sparks from this motion fall into the pile of magnesium to start a fire and there you have it fire as you can see you have to put your tinder at this point to get the fire going but I wouldn't do it in this video since I am doing this in but as you can see the fire caused by the Magnusson's shavings is intense it's in support to the foil and into the newspaper underneath it now just remember that when you are trying to keep a fire going after you have made fire from the initial shavings don't stress the fire this means that you shouldn't add too many big pieces of firewood on your pile because that would suffocate your flame just do it one at a time and you keep your fire going as always if you have any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch with us show this link to see the product page of this 3-pack magnesium fire starter and striker click this instead to see our other available fire codes race lists and survival kits go here see our other paracord tutorial videos click this all in how you can go to our main website www.engvid.com to check the rest of the products that we offer happy shopping