Best Glide ASE Credit Card Size Fresnel Lens Fire Starter and Magnifier Lenses (3 Pack - Red)

This 3-pack of Fresnel lenses are a good deal for the money and a solid product for survivalist, campers, hikers, or anybody needing a last resort method of lighting a fire on a sunny day. These are thin, flexible and about the size of a credit card and will slip into a wallet or go bag without weight or taking up space. A must have in my opinion. Fresnel lenses are a magnifying lens specialized designed to ignite dry tinder and start a fire, but you must have sunlight like any magnifying glass. An important aspect of these Fresnel lenses is that they are 4x magnification compared to many that are only 2x. The 4x will burn quicker and help you get the fire started. As in any fire starting venture, you want the driest tinder possible, and build a small tinder pile (or make a tinder bundle) and focus the light beam to start the burning process. Make sure you have dry twigs and larger woods on hand to build your fire. A handy thing to carry in your go-bag is a couple dry tea bags that can help assure you of something that will ignite in a less than perfect environment. Tinder bundles are compressed dry leaves and small twigs. You don't want them to be to loose, but not to tight either, because you want air to circulate through the bundle to aid the fire. In a survival situation, if you have access to dry tinder materials, you want to make several tinder bundles while the getting is good in case it rains. If you have some plastic, wrap them up to keep them dry, or put them in an article of clothing and stash them so they won't get wet. You can see many demonstrations on You Tube. Highly recommended!

Tossed one of these Best Glide credit-card Fresnels in the glove box “just in case” and forgot about it until a camping morning with damp tinder and no lighter drama I wanted to admit to. Clear sky, focused the green lens on a dark char cloth scrap, and it did the magnifier/fire-starter thing without needing a science lecture. The other two stayed in the kit as backups — three-pack is smart because these scratch if you treat them like regular cards in a messy wallet. Tip: keep it in a sleeve or the little pouch; a foggy lens is just expensive plastic. Small, flat, actually useful.

Originally bought these for my child who loves science experiments to make a phone projector - don’t. These are not the ones you need. You need the big ones. These are survival fire starters. They are thin so kids break them easily. Good value since you get multiple in the pack.

I forgot I bought these and just found them. They fit right in your wallet or purse and you always have an emergency reader- that can also start an emergency fire. Nifty

I am what you would call an "armchair" survivalist. Testing out survival gear is one of my hobbies. I am not going to lie, I thought these were a gimmick - they definitely are not! These barely weigh a few grams but they do so much for so little mass. In full sunlight I lit a cigarette in about 20-30 seconds and I am confident I could get a camp fire going with relative ease. As a bonus, on the back of the sleeve I drew a diagram of a bowline knot (the so-called king of knots). This is probably my favorite piece of survival gear overall. Very impressed!

If you like to set things on fire to impress your friends, you need this. Great for smoking on a sunny day. Works when it’s too windy even for a bic. Pro tip: use your phone as a mirror to aim the sunbeam on the tip of your joint or cigarette to light it. People will think you’re a genius.

First of all, the product is okay as a Magnifying lens and the cost is reasonable. What I don't like about the product, is that it is often very hard to light a fire with a magnifying lens. I have tested this myself and unless the sun is at a good angle, you are not going to get a fire from this device. You may brown the paper (or whatever you are trying to light), but that might be all you get. Besides, what if you need a fire when the sun goes down. This product is not going to help you in that situation. I would recommend the follow items first before you include this item in your survival pack: Good Magnesium Fire Steel, Disposable Lighter, Matches. Don't forget to pack some cotton balls. Cotton balls go up incredible fast and they are fairly cheap and light weight. When you add some petroleum jelly to the cotton balls, you get a hot start to your fire and the fire will last a little longer. I will carry this item in my survival pack because it is so light, but I doubt I will be trying to start any fires with it.

Haven't started any fires yet, but I know full well that fresnel lenses will do it. They're so thin that I though I was shorted at first, but there's absolutely 3 lenses in the packaging.

The credit size Fresnel lens arrived in good time and matched the sellers description. It is compact and extremely thin, making it easy to fit into a purse or wallet. The colour is a good choice making it easy to find when needed

Not much to say other than it arrived very quickly. They are very small and compact and do not take much space. Great for emergencies!

Gets the job done.

Excellent

Great piece of edc kit,fits perfectly in your wallet,will start a solar ignition fire no problem,works great for reading small print as well,light,compact,but powerful