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Maya Dust Snuff box Tinder | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Light My Fire
Category: Sports
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3797
Media: Misc.
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
EAN: 7331423000029
ASIN: B000NIZBWG
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| Features:
| • | All natural, Environmentally-friendly production | | • | Premium quality - 28 gram / 1 oz pack | | • | Handy plastic "snuff box? package | | • | No "dangerous goods? shipping restrictions | | • | Produces an extremely hot flame |
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Product Description
MayaDust is shavings from MayaSticks packed in a convenient waterproof container that is easy to carry in your pocket or backpack. Gives maximum heat energy for minimal weight. Use MayaDust together with our Swedish FireSteel to light your campfire with ease.
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| Customer Reviews:
hmmm... July 21, 2008
R. Taylor (northern england, UK)
Maya dust is made from the wood of fatwood pines. It's high in resin so burns with a hot yellow smoky flame, lighting kindling very well. So far, so good.
The problem comes when it's marketed as a companion to a flint and steel, as a primary tinder (which is the only way I've seen it). It doesn't work in this regard at all. I spent about an hour one day (it was a slow afternoon) attempting to light it with my previous firesteel, the light my fire scout. By the time i gave it up as a lost cause, I had a slightly charred circle in my pile of maya dust, and powdered metal oxides everywhere.
So it doesn't work as a primary tinder, how about as a secondary; an extra link between tinder and kindling? Well, it will work, if you build the structure well enough that it doesn't collapse- sawdust isn't exactly known as a building material- but really it's unnecessary. Use a good enough primary tinder and you don't need a secondary; cotton wool and vaseline, papery birch bark, a well made feather stick, some mosses and lichens, or dry grass.
The short version: maya dust is unnecessary except as a tinder augmenter where tinder is scarce and/or damp,and experienced people shouldn't need it at all. And remember, at the end of the day, you'd be paying 5 for a small box of sawdust.
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