Emergency Candle/heat source

[hunter63]

Just got inducted to the Order of the Blue Flame.....Yeah, so????

[Rick]

There is probably very little that will get you moving faster than that. I have not done it....yet. I've seen it done a time or two. In the daytime it's a What The... moment as you try to figure out what all the dancing is about. At night it's beautiful. Well, from where I was anyway.

[hunter63]

http://bibliosity.blogspot.com/2013/...lue-flame.html

[crashdive123]

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[Rick]

I was thinking more along the lines of this. Just go to 4:50....You should see this at night!

[hunter63]

Yeah....So, like,... what's the matter with that?....Doesn't everyone do that?....LOL...Y'all been peeking.

I can relate.......takes the fuzz off the flannel shirt.......
Hello, 911?....Yeah....again.

[Grizzlyette Adams]

ha ha ha! The visuals in this thread...are just killing me (but not as much as it would be to the Bottle Ricket)!

All kidding aside, the title of this thread caught my attention. Some time ago, I played around with homemade "oil lamps" made with old cooking oil, Crisco, etc. and was pleasantly surprised how well they worked.

Thinking about the oil lamps of Bible times led me to a crap-ton of experiments involving a variety of materials:

Wicks: Cotton (NOT cotton/nylon blends) shoe strings, yarn, and packing string. (I never got around to twisted newspaper or thin strips of twisted t-shirt material.)

Oil: I tried both fresh and outdated cooking oil (vegetable oil, Crisco, olive oil). I tried used cooking oil left from frying fish and chicken. I even tried sticking a "wick" into a hole that I nail-punched in the top of an unopened can of tuna fish (packed in oil not water).

To keep the tip of the wick lit and out of the oil, I wove it into a "stand" made with wire (paper clips worked fine, too).

All worked! Now I use my (reclaimed-oil) lamps during ice storms and other extended power outage events. It $aves my kerosene and battery budget from blowing all to heck.

[Rick]

You can also use bacon grease.

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...+grease+candle

[Wildthang]

You can also use bacon grease.

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...+grease+candle

Yes bacon grease is the best! It makes your house smell like bacon, that makes you crave bacon, and you cook more bacon! So you keep getting more bacon grease for your candle. It ends up being a never ending cycle!

[hunter63]

Perpetual motion.......?????

[NoStrangeFireHere]

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We sell these at the little survival store I operate. Its a few matches and fatwood in some paraffin.

[hunter63]

Here is some I make.....
Fatwood sawdust, paraffin in egg carton segments......these are with out cotton ball (fuzzy butt) sticking out of wax......

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Rolled up newspapers tied with cotton string....dipped in wax.... add 2-3 strike-anywhere matches in center.

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[NoStrangeFireHere]

Those seem like they would be perfect for carrying around. One time use. Great idea

[hunter63]

Those seem like they would be perfect for carrying around. One time use. Great idea

If you stick a dry or light PJ rubbed cotton ball in the top of the wax....will catch a spark.......

[Grizzlyette Adams]

You can also use bacon grease.

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...+grease+candle

Yes bacon grease is the best! It makes your house smell like bacon, that makes you crave bacon, and you cook more bacon! So you keep getting more bacon grease for your candle. It ends up being a never ending cycle!

Yes bacon grease is the best! I carefully hoard it in the fridge and reserve it for sauteing certain foods and for making gumbo roux. Use it for firelights? Never! Or else I would go insane and run out into the ice storm...and end up like an old Eskimo that has been set out on the ice to die...

What IS it about that smell that makes us weak in the knees?????

[Grizzlyette Adams]

I am definitely trying the ideas from posts #51 & #52!!! Garage sales and thrift stores practically give candles away and would be an almost-free source of wax.

[hunter63]

I am definitely trying the ideas from posts #51 & #52!!! Garage sales and thrift stores practically give candles away and would be an almost-free source of wax.

You are correct....all pretty colors and scents as well......
My original rolled paper fire starters, tied with string, was and idea from Field and Stream (I think) for back in the 1070's...and we used broken crayons for wax......
Still have a couple of those.

[Grizzlyette Adams]

You are correct....all pretty colors and scents as well......
My original rolled paper fire starters, tied with string, was and idea from Field and Stream (I think) for back in the 1070's...and we used broken crayons for wax......
Still have a couple of those.

My oh my, you ARE a wise old sage! lol

[hunter63]

Wisdom is not making the same mistake twice.......
But it wasn't for mistakes...nothing would be done.

Just old enough....LOL.

[Rick]

I learn a lot more from my mistakes than I do from my successes, which is probably why I'm so smart. I make a lot of mistakes.

By the by. Bacon candles don't smell like bacon.