The Poor Man's Survival Heater

The Poor Man's Survival Heater: How to make a free survival heater with items that you'd normally throw away. All that is needed is a small tin can, corrugated cardboard, and some old spent candles. It's a good lightweight heater to take camping, backpacking, hiking, or to add to your bug-out bag. If there were some kind of disaster or SHTF situation, this little heater would come in handy.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I want to reiterate that this heater is to be used outdoors to heat/boil water or cook food. The heater produces too much flame to be safely used inside a vehicle. You may want to keep some tea light candles for emergency vehicle use...those would be much safer and more manageable.

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[frithar]

In Girl Scouts we put an inverted coffee can with tons of holes punched in so you could set a pan on top. We don;t use coffee cans, but a Provident Pantry #10 can is perfect!

[BlackCatSaloon]

@frithar Thanks for sharing!

[plopnod]

Great vid! Loved it,and will use this ! Maybe an apple juice can for a large family ;)

[BlackCatSaloon]

@plopnod Good idea, that may work.

[EasedBluntman]

Thanks alot will come in handy. 

[BlackCatSaloon]

@EasedBluntman You're welcome.

[MindScraping]

I wish you would have shown filling it with the wax.

[BoyMixer]

Good Skill to have, thanks

[inkey2]

does it give off much smoke?

[ChaingunCharlie]

its called a squat candle

[USNDeepsea1991]

keep the yankee candle glass and melt old wax in that on the stove.

[katiecakes10000]

@TheCrazyphuck I invested in a cheap funnel at the dollar store and cut off part of the narrow tube at the bottom (otherwise the wax clumps it up as it starts to cool).

[katiecakes10000]

Throw your wax scaps in an large clean empty can and sit that can in a pot of water (to make a double boiler) and heat on medium temp. It's safer, not as much mess and less of a fire hazzard. If your wax catches on fire while melting, treat it like a grease fire. NEVER throw water on it, or you will have an explosion of hot wax all over your kitchen.

[metallicarocks123]

Hi, could you please show us how you did the wax? I think a lot of us need to see that part. Thank you.

[saharra22469]

Oh God, Thanx ... Now I am wiser. I just threw out tons of old saved candle wax.. I was going to use it to remake candles. Great vid.

[ninemilepoint]

Made these in boyscouts 30 yrs ago. totally forgot about this method.

You get the credit for reminding me! Thx!

[daftboy555]

you talk too much... video is 10min long, you could have expleined the same amount of thing in 2