American Made Exotac nanoSTRIKER Ferrocerium Fire Starter - Titanium
American Made Product Description
The Titanium nanoSTRIKER is an unbranded, uncoated alternative to our Aluminum nanoSTRIKER. We gave it a fancier knurling and removed our branding from it to form a fantastic product.
Our collapsible ferrocerium fire-starter takes all excuses and throws them into the fire! This may possibly be the smallest ferrocerium fire starter on the market today. Attach it to your key chain, throw it into your pocket or tie it to your pack but never again leave home without one.
There are many ferrocerium fire-starting tools on the market. Some of these are high quality, some are small and some are self-contained. We set out to create a tool that incorporated all of these features and then some. While doing so we discovered that this product not only does the aforementioned, but it does it while being easier to use then tools more than twice the size! At the end of the day, this little tool can be collapsed and returned to key-chain ballast duty.
Here is a diagram of the nanoSTRIKER:
Because the nanoSTRIKER is so small, we were challenged with developing a new type of ferrocerium rod striking tool. We developed numerous prototypes and spared little expense to develop the most effective striker. This revolutionary striker is constructed of two different grades of stainless steel to offer the best quality finish and excellent durability. The 303 stainless steel component is hand polished then bead blasted for a great looking satin finish. The 440C component is high-precision machined and finished in a heat-treat oven bringing it's hardness to more than 50 Rockwell C (that means really hard for us normal people).
Titanium (6AL4V specifically) has one of the best strength to weight ratios of any metal. It offers the strength of (common) steel while being 45% lighter. It is a common substance found in almost all living things. What makes Titanium expensive is the effort to refine and machine it into a useable product. The benefit of a Titanium product is not only its strength but the fact that it doesn't need to be protected and beautified with coatings like Aluminum does. Please note that our Aluminum version is still the lightest nanoSTRIKER available at 0.67oz.
Features:
Patent Pending Collapsible self-contained fire starter
Ultra-portable for keyring and pocket carry
Ferrocerium rod works when wet
6AL4V Aircraft grade Titanium Alloy
Tungsten carbide striker
Replaceable ferrocerium rod
Up to 1000 fire-starting strikes!
Included in box:
Split ring for keyring carry
nanoSTRIKERtm with ferrocerium rod
Extra set of o-rings
Instruction Manual
Other Details
Diameter: 0.38"
Length: 3.40"
Weight: 0.78oz
Click here to download instruction manual PDF
About Exotac Outdoor Gear
Exotac, Inc. is what happens when Engineers and guys-who-love-the-outdoors are combined. They are a privately held, family owned small business based out of Buford, Georgia. The company was started by a Purdue Engineering graduate with a passion for all things man and earth made. They combined some aluminum with a little dirt and the rest is history!
Their vision is based upon designing extraordinary, high-quality and unique outdoor products. They spare no expense and make absolutely no compromises when it comes to product design and manufacturing quality. Their products are not mass-manufactured by the lowest bidder. They manufacture each product in smaller quantity runs which allows us to make improvments along the way.
Our collapsible ferrocerium fire-starter takes all excuses and throws them into the fire! This may possibly be the smallest ferrocerium fire starter on the market today. Attach it to your key chain, throw it into your pocket or tie it to your pack but never again leave home without one.
There are many ferrocerium fire-starting tools on the market. Some of these are high quality, some are small and some are self-contained. We set out to create a tool that incorporated all of these features and then some. While doing so we discovered that this product not only does the aforementioned, but it does it while being easier to use then tools more than twice the size! At the end of the day, this little tool can be collapsed and returned to key-chain ballast duty.
Here is a diagram of the nanoSTRIKER:
Because the nanoSTRIKER is so small, we were challenged with developing a new type of ferrocerium rod striking tool. We developed numerous prototypes and spared little expense to develop the most effective striker. This revolutionary striker is constructed of two different grades of stainless steel to offer the best quality finish and excellent durability. The 303 stainless steel component is hand polished then bead blasted for a great looking satin finish. The 440C component is high-precision machined and finished in a heat-treat oven bringing it's hardness to more than 50 Rockwell C (that means really hard for us normal people).
Titanium (6AL4V specifically) has one of the best strength to weight ratios of any metal. It offers the strength of (common) steel while being 45% lighter. It is a common substance found in almost all living things. What makes Titanium expensive is the effort to refine and machine it into a useable product. The benefit of a Titanium product is not only its strength but the fact that it doesn't need to be protected and beautified with coatings like Aluminum does. Please note that our Aluminum version is still the lightest nanoSTRIKER available at 0.67oz.
Features:
Included in box:
Other Details
Click here to download instruction manual PDF
About Exotac Outdoor Gear
Exotac, Inc. is what happens when Engineers and guys-who-love-the-outdoors are combined. They are a privately held, family owned small business based out of Buford, Georgia. The company was started by a Purdue Engineering graduate with a passion for all things man and earth made. They combined some aluminum with a little dirt and the rest is history!
Their vision is based upon designing extraordinary, high-quality and unique outdoor products. They spare no expense and make absolutely no compromises when it comes to product design and manufacturing quality. Their products are not mass-manufactured by the lowest bidder. They manufacture each product in smaller quantity runs which allows us to make improvments along the way.
American Made products from a 50 year old family run, veteran owned, American company. We have done quite a bit of research to determine which of our products to place on our new American made products web site. Please note that when we say that a product is made in America, that may mean that the raw materials have come from outside United States. For example, If an item is made is made of plastic, the oil used to make the plastic may have come from outside the United States. If one of our fire starters is on this site, the striking rod may have come from Europe, but the product itself was made by a small business person probably in his basement in the United States. On the other hand, you might notice that we don't have any radios on this site. That is because while even though it may be assembled in the Unites States, all the components are made elsewhere and then the product is assembled in the United States with no American made skills or ideas and that is not truly an American made product to us. If you have questions for more detail about an American made product, please contact us.
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