Ok today, we’re gonna take a look at too much because it still has to do with fire and it’s a product of Zippo. This is the Zippo typhoon match kit, the typhoon match. Kids got 15, typhoon matches and a water-resistant case, and it’s a Zippo product. It’s got the Zippo logo all over it. Take a look at the back says: it’s equipped. You use this you’re equipped for any forecast shows the matches in the holder built to last easy ignition emergency ready, pocket-sized I’m, not too sure about that water resistant when resistant, reusable well, the matches not reusable, but the case is but here’s the manufacturing logo, simple, manufacturing company, bradford, PA manufactured two Zippos quality standards in china warning this product contains chemicals known to the state of california to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm, and it’s got an instruction manual inside.

So let’s take this thing apart and I try to put it together and see how it works, so the 15 matches go in. It’s got the kit that removable cap, this have a lanyard hole on it right there. Let’s put these matches inside the case. 15 matches: well, it’s only 14 now, because I was playing around with it before it’s about 10 11, 12, 13 s, 13, that’s good! I’m, gonna use one as a demonstration out this thing’s got a nice rubber seal full ring on it, and you can see it’s got the Zippo logo and it says t MK, typhoon, match kit on both sides and that’s the Stryker part down here.

It’s also nicely sealed, probably be waterproof. It does come with a couple extra striker pads and the only product I have that I can compare to you right now. Is this Coleman match kit? It’s a plastic case with I think it’s 15 matches, but the size difference is amazing. This is about one-third. The Coleman is about one-third, the Zippo size and it holds 25 yet yeah 25 matches in here they are a lot smaller and their wax dipped to be waterproof.

They’re, not dunk proof, but they are waterproof. It comes with a striker on the base. This is also made in China. Let’s see if we can do a dump test or a drop test. A lit drop test on one of these typhoon matches see if it lasts more than one dunking. Okay got that thing started: let’s do a dunk test see it’s really a lot of sulfur in it. Here’s the dunk test completely underwater, will it relight and there it did a real it everything it really itself after being underwater.

So that is definitely what I’d call pretty close to hurricane proof and a lot of sulfur in that one. So that is the typhoon match kit by Zippo, and this thing is not exactly what I’d call pocket-sized, because here is a this. Is a six ounce plastic jar of badiya, complete seasoning? This is really good seasoning. Let’s see almost the exact same size of that thing and that’s a handful, so that is the Zippo typhoon match kit 15 matches I’m down to about 13.

Now that would be a definitely uh something for the trunk for emergencies, but ah about a sulfur in here. Okay, it’s definitely a nice little kit to have, and it probably deserves a little cowbell. Oh look a bomb.

All right got some wood here. Gonna just get a small fire going using my Zippo typhoon gigantic match. Casey striker on the bottom shiny seems like it’s a pretty hot flame here, nice all right, so I thought I’d. Try to simulate a situation in which we drop the match in snow. I’ve got some good wet snow today, all right, so the match is going alright see what it does all right. You can tell it’s in the snow and it’s still burning it’s just like melting away, the snow.

Okay, it’s actually pretty cool! So again, I could drop this match in the snow, I’m building a fire. You a smother here. Look at that! It’s still burning. This thing is still going nice. We’re gonna be having some rain on and off again all day today and I wanted to see what this typhoon match. We do inside just if it’s left out in the weather, so we’re gonna go back in a couple of hours and I see what it does.

I’m gonna actually take my Nalgene here and we’re gonna jumpstart the match. By giving down. You know when the rain comes, we’ll see what it does. Time is right now, 11:05 you’ll see all right. So it’s about 14 2004, about three hours off and on it’s a little bit damp I’m, just gonna actually wipe it on my sleeve and I got the end here. Let’s see what it does. First, one didn’t go. No all right! So I wonder if that’s been totally waterlogged, we’re gonna dry this off a little bit.

I’m gonna! Try it on the side here now, so that kind of failed. This test, didn’t it after being waterlogged for that long. That match did not take. Do not want a light off this. Let’s see if it lights on fire, hit that piece down all right, so yeah, all that yellow part has worn off and I’ll try lighting it with one of my lighters here, smoking there. It goes all right. So that’s a pretty good! You know! That’s still that intense flame, this be sparkly, but so, after being really waterlogged, it still does light on fire.

Okay, pretty windy day down here in the gorge, see how these light in the rain and I actually did like I thought it didn’t light, but it actually did that wind. You can tell it’s burning down a lot faster, which makes sense I, guess these things are really hard to blow out all right, I, just gotta. Let it burn down I! Guess it’s cold! All right! So I wanted to run a simulation where I dropped my match on the ground.

What’s snowing here and I knocked my Nalgene over on top of it all right, so do it just like we would we’re gonna just kind of dry it off in my hand, here a little bit sometimes that gasket is tough to get off all right, sold it right up. Okay, I drop my match on the ground and let’s write up all right, so you can get our tinder going here. Nice matches are so hot. They like those fuzz, sticks right up, and with that love the fact you could be trying to light your fire.

You drop it in the snow. You pick it right up now on to the typhoon match case itself. Again, this is the biggest match case I’ve ever owned, because it’s so large, that’s that’s kind of a it’s a good thing, because the matches are long. It’s the only match case who would fit a match that long, but it weighs about two and a half ounces empty when I load it all up. It’s going about 3, 8 ounces. That said this is pretty much guaranteed to get a fire started, because it’s so big, if you put your matches in you, alternate them so upside-down side.

You can fit more matches in here. I think I’ve got nine matches in here, which is plenty and I have a room for three of the UST wet fire tenders. I also stuck an extra match pad in the cap. That’s inside plastic, and this thing is waterproofed. It floats, which is awesome I, like the fact that it has a cover over the striker pad again. This is a striker pad. I’ve been using the whole time and it’s not ready to be replaced yet, and you can replace these no problem.

Is this sticky tape so again that cover keeps it protected, so it doesn’t wear off, probably the one improvement that I did make to it as I added some of this. This glint tape, this reflective tape to the side of it. Just so, it’s a little bit more reflective at night, it’ll it’ll pick up the shine. A lot easier. I also have a long lanyard to it. This is Kelty trip tees cord, which again is a reflective cord.

Nice thing I’m getting in the winter here, I dropped that in the snow, that’s heavy. It’s got a sink to the bottom and it’s cord will be up at the top. So again, if I drop it in the snow, I’m gonna be I’ll, find my match case now again. For my purposes, this is a good standalone item I’m getting away from carrying a survival kit which I’m gonna do that in a later video. Why I’m getting away I’m carrying a kit but I still carry all my essentials, and this is a nice large, easy-to-use container that I can throw into my pack for emergency fire starting all right, so I’ve been using this typhoon match case and matches from Zippo we’re about the last month and a half.

It’s gone, backpacking lots of hiking trips, lots of field testing here, and this is kind of my final overview. The matches are really cool again. Look how long they are. These things burn between 20 and 30 seconds. Every time I’ve lit them such a nice long burn. You wouldn’t have a problem starting pretty much any fire with just one match: they do you can douse them in water. You can drop them in the snow.

They’ll still keep on going. That’s pretty awesome. One reason I, like the factor, so big is when your hands get cold, you start getting hypothermic. You lose all your fine motor controls. This nice big match look how you can grab onto it with your full hand and strike it, and that’s that’s a pretty nice way of making this match now kind of the the downfall of this match is that it is so long burning that a private wits not good for things like stove lighting right, because it only takes a second to light, your stove and guess what no now you’re sitting here.

You waiting for your match to burn out. So if we’re lighting, your stove I, probably recommend it again. It’s for good for fire-starting, especially for emergency fire starting kits annually. The other downfall I can think of is that it tends to be a little bit stinkier than regular matches, not a huge thing, but maybe for some of the hunters that are looking for odor control. It is a little bit smellier.