Survival Candle

In this vid I show how I make survival candles. Survival candles are a little heavy for the bush but they sure are handy around the house or kept in your car.

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[Texasoutback]

Have you tried using evaporating wax. I wonder if it would cut down on the soot isue

[hiramcook]

I'm not familiar with evaporating wax. Could you give me more info on it? Where do you get it and what is it usually used for?

[sneakyninja273]

can you cook with it?

[hiramcook]

That depends on what you mean by cooking. I don't think you could cook a steak but I've cooked eggs and boiled water on this.

[gusbish]

We used to make these but we used tuna fish cans and we also used a birthday candle in the middle to light faster and easier, Just a suggestion.

[hiramcook]

The tuna fish can is what we used in Scouts to make ours. In this case I used the can I did because the candle is protected by the water-tight lid.

[ProTrixter]

Woult it be possible to use melted vaseline, pure petroleum jelly, instead of wax?

[ken25taylor]

ahhh what a great upload. thanks a bunch!

[nothadnotbad]

i wanted to tell everyone that if you accidentally start a fire with hot wax... never pour water on it! it explodes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!! grab the first thing you can find to smother it out.

mike

[Uriel1816]

nicely done

[Texasoutback]

@hiramcook The only instance that I am familiar with is no drip candles.

[nativegirl35]

great idea thanks for sharing.......another good idea is to use a med/small coffee can (metal) put a roll of toilet paper into the can, pour rubbing alcohol over and light. It will burn hot for a long time.