Waterproof Electronics With Nail Polish?

Two BEST methods to waterproof matches. Super easy! Food Storage and Survival Regular matches that go wet plow into little moisture sticks that practise zilch in no time flat. To avoid having your matches become useless due to wet, you'll desire some waterproof matches. Yous can purchase waterproof matches, or if you want to save a few bucks you tin waterproof your ain matches. There are a couple of ways to waterproof matches that are actually easy and piece of work very well. This post will cover two different methods of waterproofing your own matches. And the best part is that y'all probably already have the supplies to do them both!

Method 1: Waterproofing Matches with Wax

Yous'll demand:
*Matches (strike on the box or strike anywhere both work)
*Melted wax either from a candle or past melting wax in a double boiler

Step 1: Melt your wax. If you accept a candle, let it burn down for a bit to cook a pool of wax around the wick. Candles in jars work actually well for this since none of the melted wax escapes as the candle burns and y'all can go quite a squeamish pool of wax for dipping. If yous have wax from bits of quondam candles or from a cake of paraffin wax, you tin melt it in a double boiler setup. Wax doesn't wash out of pans well, and then just use an empty clean veggie can or soup can to melt your wax in instead of your favorite pot. Put the wax chunks in the tin and the can in a pot of water, then estrus the h2o pot over the stove until the wax melts.

Pace 2: Dip your matches in the melted wax and let them cool. You'll want to do this over some newspaper or something to catch whatever drips. You lot desire the wax to extend past the head of the lucifer, and so y'all may need to tip your candle to get a deep plenty pool to dip in. If you desire to be extra safe, blow the candle out first. Yous may need to re-light it occasionally to continue the wax nice and hot.

Set the matches with their heads hanging over the border of a box or the table or something similar then the wax tin can absurd and harden.

That's it. They absurd pretty quickly, and they are then waterproof. To use these, I've plant I need to scrape the wax off with my fingernail before lighting them. Backlog wax on the match caput makes a mess of your hitting surface and tin smother your baby match flame every bit it melts. These matches also don't hold up too well to jostling–the wax can flake off if the match heads are rubbing on each other or something else.

Method 2: Waterproofing Matches with Fingernail Shine

You'll demand:
*Matches (either strike on the box or strike anywhere)
*Fingernail polish–clear is adept, but colored also works. Quick drying varieties will dry out quicker on your matches. Avoid colors with glitter in them–they still work, but the glitter tin cause some sparking every bit it burns or interfere with the lucifer striking surface.

Footstep 1: Paint the match heads with fingernail polish. They demand to be thoroughly covered. I like to get down the stick merely a bit also. You lot tin also dip them into the bottle of fingernail polish, merely blot them off on the edge of the jar on their fashion out–you don't need them drowned in polish, but coated. Nail polish tin can brand a nasty mess on your carpet, table, couch, etc. Exercise this project over some newspaper or some other place a devious baste of blast polish won't exist a disaster. You lot might as well do your nails besides while you're at it. ;)

Step 2: Permit the matches dry. Ready the matches then their heads hang over the edge of something just like we did with the waxed matches and let them dry. These take a scrap longer to dry than the waxed matches, so be patient. Especially if they were dipped instead of brushed. Quick drying nail polishes speed up the waiting time.

That's all there is to information technology. The smash polish matches do non need any special treatment before y'all can strike them and stand up to a practiced amount of habiliment and tear likewise.

With either of these methods, you can protect the matches fifty-fifty further by keeping them in some blazon of waterproof container. You'll likewise demand to keep a striking surface handy and if y'all have the strike on the box type you'll demand to go on the surface from the box and keep it from getting wet likewise. And of course, you want to do your waterproofing before you're caught in the rainstorm in the mountains not during it.

Learning to waterproof matches is some other requirement in the LDS Girls Camp manual. Find more than by clicking the Girls Camp Requirements category.

Keep preparing!
Angela

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