Whenever I use pressed wood to build something I keep the off cuts and cut it in little blocks or when the strip is thin enough I sommer break it into blocks.
I used to put these blocks in a can filled with paraffin and then use it as firelighters.
Funny enough, if water comes close to pressed wood it will swell up. But if you put it in a oil based liquid like paraffin or turps it does not swell at all.
When painting I never know what to do with the thinners and turps after you washed the brushes. SO I just started to put it in an empty thinners can. But now I use the pressed wood blocks and fill the can with this second hand thinners and turps to be used as firelighters.
This way I do not have to spill the used turps and thinners and I have a use for all the cut-off pieces of pressed wood.
If you do not use pressed wood every now and then, just go to somebody who is building kitchen cupboards, they normally have stacks of cut off pieces which they do not know what to do with.
This soaked pressed wood fire lighter burns longer than the normal white fire lighters.
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