Strike Anywhere Matches

[Firpo]

Not the easiest to find these days, at least not for me and I’ve been looking. I spied some green tip strike anywhere matches at Sutherland’s today so I grabbed a couple boxes. I’ve heard rumors they aren’t near as good as they used to be but these struck the first time on a cinderblock as well as a rock I grabbed from the flowerbed. Cool Deal

 

[mtngunr]

When I was a kid, a mayonnaise jar full of the kitchen match heads could remove an abandoned cabin from the face of the earth.

 

[CHenry]

Used to, I could light them red tips across my leg on my jeans.

 

[SoonerP226]

My grandma kept a bunch of them in the kitchen to light her pilotless gas stove. I had been looking for them off and on for quite some time because I can’t tell you how many boxes full of strike-on-box matches I have where the strike strip on the box is shot and won’t light a match.

Holy hell, strike-on-box matches were a dumb idea. Who wants to have to find a lighter to light a dadgum match?

 

[Firpo]

I’ll likely still make my own from the “red phosphorus” out of those plastic caps for a cap gun. Saw a video that feller from Waypoint Survival put out and thought I’d give it a go. Don’t know if it’s for real or YouTube garbage but I will find out. May be a fun project.

 

[dennishoddy]

When I was a kid, a mayonnaise jar full of the kitchen match heads could remove an abandoned cabin from the face of the earth.

If you would have added mothballs to the jar, It would have left much smaller pieces of wood.

 

[mtngunr]

If you would have added mothballs to the jar, It would have left much smaller pieces of wood.

Well, we moved on to thermite bombs made with machine shop magnesium filings that burned thru the top and bottom of an abandoned car and burned a crater in the ground. Just kids having fun....I can still strike a real match on the back of leg, if I had the matches....have a container of the waterproof matches that cannot be put out in water, but those are for emergencies.

 

[trekrok]

I used to light them with my thumbnail, cause it looked cool and all. Get it a little wrong though and that ***** would ignite under you nail. That was fun.

 

[mtngunr]

I used to light them with my thumbnail, cause it looked cool and all. Get it a little wrong though and that ***** would ignite under you nail. That was fun.

Funner was watching a girl do that and set her nail polish on fire....most unladylike sentiments were then expressed.

 

[BearSitsInTheWoods]

W

If you would have added mothballs to the jar, It would have left much smaller pieces of wood.

What would mothballs add to this concoction, am I missing something?
I don’t understand how a jar of match heads could generate that much energy.