I live in Maine and in the Winter... You just never know, one moment your nice and warm.. the next you could be in a situation that without a heat source... Your Dead. This could save your life in the winter months here in the woods of Maine . Snow or No Snow... build a shelter with wood and fur trees... or in the snow an Igloo and this little stove would heat either enough to warm you.
Just wanted to mention that we used to make these in Tuna Cans and make the stove out of the Tomato can and it will get hot enough to boil water or cook a steak and will last long enough to cook several meals or keep a snow cave nice and cozy. Thanks for the videos.
James you have one of the best channels on this subject. Always coming up with something innovative, interesting and different rather than following the crowd. Great work.
I caught one of your videos many months ago and immediately subscribed but haven’t seen one since. After watching this one, I’ve decided to binge watch and “like” a bunch of your videos tonight so that I will hopefully get more of your videos popping up. Your ideas and ingenuity are so practical and affordable that you’ve quickly become a favorite.
Thank you for yet another nifty little project. I'll be adding this one to the Waypoint Lantern as an extra little gift. 😎 They will all wonder how it is that I am suddenly so knowledgeable when just a week ago I wasn't quite sure what a rocket stove is.. 🙄 Really enjoyed this vid - thanks again.
I recently found your UA-cam channel and I love it! So many great projects and info…a clean and wholesome channel for young kids to watch and learn from…I am thinking about Boys and Girls Scouts really enjoy this wonderful channel! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS!🙏❤️👍🇺🇸
@@WayPointSurvival My wife had a suggestion to make lighting it a little easier. She suggests adding some small pieces of cotton string to act as wicks, or leave the corners of the cardboard at the end of the strips slightly raised for the same purpose.
Cool idea. My variation of that since I hate Altoids and rarely end up with any of their tins is to use a round screw on lidded pellet tin for lead pellet gun pellets as a burner for a tuna can stove. The Crossman .177cal. 250 count ones are the perfect size. I put cotton in mine though and soak the wax into that. Seems to burn a little less sooty and lights quicker. Another modification I do since paraffin melts easy and will melt in hot weather and drool out of most containers wrecking my gear is to make a gasket for my screw on lid. I just put a bead of silicone on the inside of the lid all the way around, wait until it gets tacky, lube the lip of the container with a little gun oil so it won't stick to the silicone bead then screw the two pieces together and leave it overnight to cure. Once unscrewed then you have a nice form fitted seal and wax drooling out onto your gear is unlikely. Also a cheap source of that wax is the 99 Cent Store. They have bags full of tea candles for 99 cents. Just melt them down, pick out the wicks and aluminum cups and you're good to go.
Well, I've been a biker since I was 9 years old and have made quite a few long-distance trips all the way up to about 4,500 miles in a couple of weeks.
@@Dezz097OG When I used to pretty much live and work off of my bikes starting with a AMF era Harley, then a Honda Goldwing after I got tired of pushing the Harley in my youth to my current but aging Hayabusa with a Hahn turbo and big bore kit in my old age that's the type of burner I have used and kept wrapped up in my bedroll on the back seat for soups and coffee and such while camping on the road. I've just never had time to make videos due to working crappy jobs and actually having to practice survival to get by as well as having to take care of several family members over the years who's health have been failing starting with my mother then my grandmother and now my old lady. I might make some before I cork out after I get my old lady placed in a retirement home and find the time. Still working on that. Her mind has been going for some time with dementia and it is just too dangerous to have her out here with me living off grid in the AZ desert considering I still have to work and leave her at the homestead during the day.
I hate to hear that about your wife and family. But I look forward seeing some of your ideas and hopefully learning some new things ride safe bother be safe and I hope all goes well for you
Yes it would fit. I actually thought about it but opted for the matches because I can just lay them in the bottom of the stove and it will burn a little more effectively that way.
Years ago I cooked three hamburgers on a #10 can turned upside down over a buddy burner. I had punched about 6 to 8 holes around both the top and bottom of the #10 can. The buddy burner was a tuna can with newspaper and paraffin.
That's awesome James. I've made Altoids candles, and buddy burners (or hobo heaters as I call em) from tuna can, but never thought to do one in a mini tin.
I too use a tuna can. It fits exactly inside my enamelware coffee cup. Along with black rifle coffee packets, a couple of zip lighters cubes, a wire riser and a bic lighter. Motorcycle camping on a 250 doesn't provide a lot of cargo space. The Altoids can is cool, but it doesn't nest.
Hey man do you have any tips and tricks for making buddy burners/hobo heaters more effectively? Short cuts and other such things you've discovered about them? I'd appreciate to know!
On a bike trip years ago, I had a small alcohol stove I made a foldable aluminum foil wind screen to go all the way around the stove and the cooking vessel, it helps with retaining heat around the whole thing making it much more efficient to boil water.
Great show as always. Excellent invention. We use similar set up with citronella as insect repellant while camping & another for cooking & heating with just wax etc. The way you pack it away is just magic, we will duplicate that idea of yours. Thank you for sharing matey. Greetings from Australia.
Another neat project. You could wrap a small piece of foil over the back to cover the slots. I think it might also be helpful in lighting it to cut half the stems off a couple of paper matches and set them down into the cardboard slots so that just the head sticks up. Fold those over and then add the wax. When you're ready to use it, just pull the matchheads up and light them with a separate flame. You may also just cut a few matchheads off flush and shove them into the cardboard before the wax. The additional heat of the flareup should ignite the rest of it quicker.
@@WayPointSurvival Thanks for the video by the way. Inspired me to make this with a chicken can and leftover bacon grease that was about to throw out. Took a few more matches to light than expected, but once it got going it boiled water nicely.
This was really cool! I love the stove, I just kept vasoline soaked cotton balls in a small bag, THIS will be so much better! Thanks so much!! Great idea, I wish I had that much creativity!
I made this and it worked fine and helped for a hot drink while hunting and found a use for the small extra space by also including a small ferro rod ( predrilled with a small finger lanyard to help hold it and a small ziplock bag with magnesium shavings in it or even a small pillow or 2 of steel wool wrapped in duct tape or gorilla tape as fire starters all can be held shut with 2 ranger bands even added a birthday candle for a flame extender when needed works very nice. Keep up the good work please really enjoy your channel. Thank you very much.
Another sweet video I've done this before but I've used the welding felt to fill the tin up. Also when you're making it you can pull a wick out of a tea candle and stick in one of the holes on the cardboard and it will act as a wick to start that's how I start my bigger buddy burners thanks for everything
I know it ! I was waiting for it and you came through and I’m sure you will come up with something to fell up that space too. Never fails , you always got good ideas James. Thanks for the video and see you in the next one.
This is awesome man. I'm a huge fan of both modern fuel based jet burners, but always prefer the bone warming feeling of a fire. I love building my own kit, and I'll definitely try this as a nice middle ground for quick stops and scouts. Thank you!
Very nice. Got a few dozen regular altoid tin buddy burners in different places. So cheap, simple, and cant go bad. I use whatever scrap wax i have, mixed together. Oh! Use citronella wax, and cut a hole in the middle of the lid, maybe quarter to fifty cent piece size, and burn it with the lid closed. Diy anti mosquito candle.used tbem for years!
They still make them, my son did one. Think the Scouts is a brilliant thing for all young people to join. My sons troupe made an entire round house in local woods and would often sleep there, camping over a weekend. He is now an engineer!
When I was in the Boy Scouts, we made them out of Tuna cans . Great for cooking and hand warming. I really like the buddy and how it all stores neatly in a larger tin , awesome! I’m going to make one today ! Fun
Great idea for when monsoon rains have destroyed any chance of a quick wood fire. Another cheap and easy way to have effective survival equipment for unexpected situations..👍
Hi James! My neighbor nearly burned their house down fooling around with wax on the stove. It is best to work with it outside, in my opinion. Obviously, you did all the work outside, so my comment is more of a underscore on the safety issue rather than criticism. The little tin could also be used as a mold to make little fire starter pucks. I know you can buy this kind of thing, but the better part of fun, in my view, is making a lot of your own gear. I really like the kit concept with this stove. Blessings!
Very cool . Thinking inside the box instead of outside. 😜 . Actually a handy setup. With that little bit of rich lighter you could get a pretty nice fire rolling. Have a great evening
I'd come to similar conclusions on what I needed to be built but did it as an alcohol burner/wind block. I went with a triangular pot stand with a round tin/burner (and that is what was available) with a fire rope inside. Have used the cardboard/wax gizmos in an area I go to where the weather is very changeable, if everything is soaked including you a little heat is fantastic and you then use it to light a proper fire when everything is soaked.
ONe little trick when making buddy burners is to add a few pieces of wick/string into the carboard coil, sticking up a bit above the carboard like candle wicks. it makes them much easier to light
Awesome idea. Ive made these in tuna cans, and cut off coffee cans before but they were always a pain to extinguish once they got going. This solves that issue, and is nice and packable. Maybe a couple trioxaine tablets in that extra space? If there's enough height.
A couple of tips. Fix a piece of the cookie sheet left over from the twig stove over the holes in the mini Altoids tin before adding the cardboard. JB weld should work fine. At the center of the mini Buddy Burner leave the last bit of cardboard slightly taller than the rest. This can act as a starter wick for lighting the burner. Char this part before storing and it should catch a spark from a ferro rod like char cloth.
Drill a pair of extra holes in the sides of the stove, add two nails to the packed tin, and use them to raise the burner to the most efficient height, plus having a couple of very handy bushcraft items.
@@constancemiller3753 I hope to see James this Friday at the Central Ohio Bushcraft Gathering. You are 💯 percent right. The Stanley cook set of James puts a Swiss Army knife to shame.
@@WayPointSurvival Well James I will be looking for you as I really want to shake your hand and meet you. I am hoping to arrive Thursday night around 6:30 Eastern time, I have a 5 hour drive from IL to get there.
Is brilliant, In my experience the flame doesn´t need to be so close to the bottom of the pan, for example the alcohol burner reach its maximun power being around 4 cm from the base of the pot. Just in case it helps , Nice idea.
Hi Jame I love watching you videos this one with the cardboard and wax very good . Just 1 thing if you put a pice of string in to help start the fire when pouring the wax it will be the wick .pete in Ireland
I think Id l;eave the sm stove out and use it as twig stove. Fold up some moist towellettes in , to keep clean with.. Also put some packges of alcohol wipes in for fire starters
We did something like this in the boy scouts with tuna fish cans and another, larger can. I think it was the kind of can sweet potatoes came it? Cut the sweet potato can down a bit and punched holes in it. flip it over and heat up food.
That's pretty slick. I have tried using 4 tea Tree candles, and I have even tried to make a big candle with a huge Wick. But none of them worked as well as this. My guess is because of the surface Flame. Good job
What I did was cut down some small birthday candles and spaced through out the cardboard so the wicks stuck out above the height of the cardboard and the wick would fold over so the top would close... much easier to ignite...
About 60 years when I made my first tuna can buddy burner we use newspaper instead cardboard. Instead of the bundle of fat wood how about a slice of paraffin. The burner can be recharged by laying a chunk of paraffin on it while it is burning.
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I live in Maine and in the Winter... You just never know, one moment your nice and warm.. the next you could be in a situation that without a heat source... Your Dead. This could save your life in the winter months here in the woods of Maine . Snow or No Snow... build a shelter with wood and fur trees... or in the snow an Igloo and this little stove would heat either enough to warm you.
Awesome!
About how long of burn time would you say that little burner will run.
@@lurchaddams4179 I'd guess 12+ hrs or so , guessing though .
Just wanted to mention that we used to make these in Tuna Cans and make the stove out of the Tomato can and it will get hot enough to boil water or cook a steak and will last long enough to cook several meals or keep a snow cave nice and cozy. Thanks for the videos.
James you have one of the best channels on this subject. Always coming up with something innovative, interesting and different rather than following the crowd. Great work.
Agreed
Thank you so much!
Great little emergency stove, will definitely include in my kit.
Thanks again Sir.
And thank you for watching!
I caught one of your videos many months ago and immediately subscribed but haven’t seen one since. After watching this one, I’ve decided to binge watch and “like” a bunch of your videos tonight so that I will hopefully get more of your videos popping up. Your ideas and ingenuity are so practical and affordable that you’ve quickly become a favorite.
Thank you so much, I'm glad that you're enjoying the channel!
I adore how everything packs into one little tin, a complete kit :)
Thank you, glad you liked it!
Awesome. This changes the game considerably
Thank you for watching!
Came just in time too. Buggin in the FLX.
I'm going to make several of these and gift to my prepper buddies.
Sounds good. Thanks for watching!
Always keep my Altoid tins. They’re just made to keep but now I have an xtra good reason!
Thank you as always! 👍
Excellent. Thanks for watching!
That mini Altoids tin with cardboard and beeswax would make a great Firestarter.
Thank you for this excellent video! 😎
Thank you for watching and glad you liked it!
That works really good with your stove. Thanks for sharing. God bless and stay safe.
Thank you so much and God bless you too!
Thank you for yet another nifty little project. I'll be adding this one to the Waypoint Lantern as an extra little gift. 😎 They will all wonder how it is that I am suddenly so knowledgeable when just a week ago I wasn't quite sure what a rocket stove is.. 🙄
Really enjoyed this vid - thanks again.
Great! Thanks for watching!
So cool and ORIGINAL. Great idea. Love the compactness.
Thank you so much!
I recently found your UA-cam channel and I love it! So many great projects and info…a clean and wholesome channel for young kids to watch and learn from…I am thinking about Boys and Girls Scouts really enjoy this wonderful channel! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS!🙏❤️👍🇺🇸
Awesome! Thank you!
Use the same principle but with a cotton chord to make a small candle that uses the shiny inside of the lid as a reflector
Good idea. I made something similar to that a couple of years ago on my channel.
@@WayPointSurvival My wife had a suggestion to make lighting it a little easier. She suggests adding some small pieces of cotton string to act as wicks, or leave the corners of the cardboard at the end of the strips slightly raised for the same purpose.
Love the Altoids and Stanley hacks on your channel James. They really are fun projects and always work well. Thanks for sharing and God bless you
Great, glad you like them!
Best channel on UA-cam! Our family has made many of your projects. Thank you and God bless!
Thank you so much for the kind words and God bless you all as well!
I just love this idea and your kit. With content like this you will soon have a million subscribers!! Great work!!
Thank you so much!
Cool idea.
My variation of that since I hate Altoids and rarely end up with any of their tins is to use a round screw on lidded pellet tin for lead pellet gun pellets as a burner for a tuna can stove. The Crossman .177cal. 250 count ones are the perfect size. I put cotton in mine though and soak the wax into that. Seems to burn a little less sooty and lights quicker. Another modification I do since paraffin melts easy and will melt in hot weather and drool out of most containers wrecking my gear is to make a gasket for my screw on lid. I just put a bead of silicone on the inside of the lid all the way around, wait until it gets tacky, lube the lip of the container with a little gun oil so it won't stick to the silicone bead then screw the two pieces together and leave it overnight to cure. Once unscrewed then you have a nice form fitted seal and wax drooling out onto your gear is unlikely. Also a cheap source of that wax is the 99 Cent Store. They have bags full of tea candles for 99 cents. Just melt them down, pick out the wicks and aluminum cups and you're good to go.
That's a really good way to make one and thank you so much for sharing the information!
Ya know being a biker and being into survival would make for a interesting channel man
Well, I've been a biker since I was 9 years old and have made quite a few long-distance trips all the way up to about 4,500 miles in a couple of weeks.
@@Dezz097OG When I used to pretty much live and work off of my bikes starting with a AMF era Harley, then a Honda Goldwing after I got tired of pushing the Harley in my youth to my current but aging Hayabusa with a Hahn turbo and big bore kit in my old age that's the type of burner I have used and kept wrapped up in my bedroll on the back seat for soups and coffee and such while camping on the road. I've just never had time to make videos due to working crappy jobs and actually having to practice survival to get by as well as having to take care of several family members over the years who's health have been failing starting with my mother then my grandmother and now my old lady. I might make some before I cork out after I get my old lady placed in a retirement home and find the time. Still working on that. Her mind has been going for some time with dementia and it is just too dangerous to have her out here with me living off grid in the AZ desert considering I still have to work and leave her at the homestead during the day.
I hate to hear that about your wife and family. But I look forward seeing some of your ideas and hopefully learning some new things ride safe bother be safe and I hope all goes well for you
Pretty slick idea to go along with the stove. I think a mini Bic would fit in there also.
Yes it would fit. I actually thought about it but opted for the matches because I can just lay them in the bottom of the stove and it will burn a little more effectively that way.
Years ago I cooked three hamburgers on a #10 can turned upside down over a buddy burner. I had punched about 6 to 8 holes around both the top and bottom of the #10 can. The buddy burner was a tuna can with newspaper and paraffin.
Sounds good and effective. Thanks for watching.
Hell, I loved it, another great idea for a lite weight emergency stove an a ready to go fuel source. Thx for the vid
Thank you for watching!
That's awesome James. I've made Altoids candles, and buddy burners (or hobo heaters as I call em) from tuna can, but never thought to do one in a mini tin.
Thank you!
I too use a tuna can. It fits exactly inside my enamelware coffee cup. Along with black rifle coffee packets, a couple of zip lighters cubes, a wire riser and a bic lighter.
Motorcycle camping on a 250 doesn't provide a lot of cargo space.
The Altoids can is cool, but it doesn't nest.
Hey man do you have any tips and tricks for making buddy burners/hobo heaters more effectively? Short cuts and other such things you've discovered about them? I'd appreciate to know!
On a bike trip years ago, I had a small alcohol stove I made a foldable aluminum foil wind screen to go all the way around the stove and the cooking vessel, it helps with retaining heat around the whole thing making it much more efficient to boil water.
Absolutely!
This is very cool I am a back packer and survivalist have been doing this for a lot of years sence I was 17 I am now 65
Thank you so much!
Great show as always. Excellent invention. We use similar set up with citronella as insect repellant while camping & another for cooking & heating with just wax etc. The way you pack it away is just magic, we will duplicate that idea of yours. Thank you for sharing matey. Greetings from Australia.
Excellent. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Another neat project. You could wrap a small piece of foil over the back to cover the slots. I think it might also be helpful in lighting it to cut half the stems off a couple of paper matches and set them down into the cardboard slots so that just the head sticks up. Fold those over and then add the wax.
When you're ready to use it, just pull the matchheads up and light them with a separate flame.
You may also just cut a few matchheads off flush and shove them into the cardboard before the wax. The additional heat of the flareup should ignite the rest of it quicker.
That would work, at least for the first light. Thanks for watching.
Perhaps just tear a couple match heads off and stick them in right before each lighting?
That would work pretty well.
@@WayPointSurvival Thanks for the video by the way. Inspired me to make this with a chicken can and leftover bacon grease that was about to throw out. Took a few more matches to light than expected, but once it got going it boiled water nicely.
This was really cool! I love the stove, I just kept vasoline soaked cotton balls in a small bag, THIS will be so much better! Thanks so much!! Great idea, I wish I had that much creativity!
Thank you for watching and glad you enjoyed it!
This is awesome. Been trying to find something to do with those mini tins.
Thanks for watching.
I know. Not waterproof enough for seasonings. Heat and eat buddy burner is clever.
@@constancemiller3753 as far as waterproofing you could use an O ring
I made this and it worked fine and helped for a hot drink while hunting and found a use for the small extra space by also including a small ferro rod ( predrilled with a small finger lanyard to help hold it and a small ziplock bag with magnesium shavings in it or even a small pillow or 2 of steel wool wrapped in duct tape or gorilla tape as fire starters all can be held shut with 2 ranger bands even added a birthday candle for a flame extender when needed works very nice. Keep up the good work please really enjoy your channel. Thank you very much.
Excellent, thanks for watching!
Excellent, thanks for watching!
Another sweet video I've done this before but I've used the welding felt to fill the tin up. Also when you're making it you can pull a wick out of a tea candle and stick in one of the holes on the cardboard and it will act as a wick to start that's how I start my bigger buddy burners thanks for everything
Good ideas. Thanks for watching!
I know it ! I was waiting for it and you came through and I’m sure you will come up with something to fell up that space too. Never fails , you always got good ideas James. Thanks for the video and see you in the next one.
Thank you so much, glad you liked it!
Hi from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing your thoughts and adventures
Thank you, Earl. Much appreciated!
This is awesome man. I'm a huge fan of both modern fuel based jet burners, but always prefer the bone warming feeling of a fire. I love building my own kit, and I'll definitely try this as a nice middle ground for quick stops and scouts. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
Very nice. Got a few dozen regular altoid tin buddy burners in different places. So cheap, simple, and cant go bad. I use whatever scrap wax i have, mixed together. Oh! Use citronella wax, and cut a hole in the middle of the lid, maybe quarter to fifty cent piece size, and burn it with the lid closed. Diy anti mosquito candle.used tbem for years!
Good idea on the citronella. Thanks for watching.
I’m 69 yrs young, made one in scouts as a youngster!👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Excellent. Thanks for watching!
They still make them, my son did one. Think the Scouts is a brilliant thing for all young people to join. My sons troupe made an entire round house in local woods and would often sleep there, camping over a weekend. He is now an engineer!
When I was in the Boy Scouts, we made them out of Tuna cans . Great for cooking and hand warming. I really like the buddy and how it all stores neatly in a larger tin , awesome! I’m going to make one today ! Fun
Excellent, glad you enjoyed it!
Great idea for when monsoon rains have destroyed any chance of a quick wood fire. Another cheap and easy way to have effective survival equipment for unexpected situations..👍
Indeed. Thanks for watching!
Hi James! My neighbor nearly burned their house down fooling around with wax on the stove. It is best to work with it outside, in my opinion. Obviously, you did all the work outside, so my comment is more of a underscore on the safety issue rather than criticism. The little tin could also be used as a mold to make little fire starter pucks. I know you can buy this kind of thing, but the better part of fun, in my view, is making a lot of your own gear. I really like the kit concept with this stove. Blessings!
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for another gadget trick for camping on the cheap. I have lots of old candles that are half melted.
Very good, it's a fun project to make!
Great way to wrap it all together.
Thank you!
Good video man, I really enjoyed watching it.
Thank you so much!
Very cool . Thinking inside the box instead of outside. 😜 . Actually a handy setup. With that little bit of rich lighter you could get a pretty nice fire rolling. Have a great evening
Yes indeed. Thanks for watching!
I'd come to similar conclusions on what I needed to be built but did it as an alcohol burner/wind block. I went with a triangular pot stand with a round tin/burner (and that is what was available) with a fire rope inside. Have used the cardboard/wax gizmos in an area I go to where the weather is very changeable, if everything is soaked including you a little heat is fantastic and you then use it to light a proper fire when everything is soaked.
Indeed. Thank you for watching!
ONe little trick when making buddy burners is to add a few pieces of wick/string into the carboard coil, sticking up a bit above the carboard like candle wicks. it makes them much easier to light
Great point!
Awesome idea. Ive made these in tuna cans, and cut off coffee cans before but they were always a pain to extinguish once they got going. This solves that issue, and is nice and packable. Maybe a couple trioxaine tablets in that extra space? If there's enough height.
That might work. Thanks for watching!
A couple of tips.
Fix a piece of the cookie sheet left over from the twig stove over the holes in the mini Altoids tin before adding the cardboard. JB weld should work fine.
At the center of the mini Buddy Burner leave the last bit of cardboard slightly taller than the rest. This can act as a starter wick for lighting the burner. Char this part before storing and it should catch a spark from a ferro rod like char cloth.
Good ideas and thanks for watching!
Drill a pair of extra holes in the sides of the stove, add two nails to the packed tin, and use them to raise the burner to the most efficient height, plus having a couple of very handy bushcraft items.
You could do that. Thank you for watching.
Love the Buddy Burner and all your videos!!
Thank you so much!
Great vid. Little drawstring pouches from dollar tree for sunglasses would prob work good for a little bag.
Great idea!
great addition to the stove.
Thank you!
Great addiction to pack stove! Thank You!!!
Thank you for watching!
That’s just about as handy as it can be. Another project for me to try👍.
Thank you so much!
Keep it up brother! Love the content
Thank you so much!
Awesome job James !!
Now the question is. Can you make as many hacks for an Altoid Tin as you can a Stanley cook set ?
I don't know, but the thought did occur to me, lol!
Put the Swiss Army knife folks to shame with the Stanley hacks.
@@constancemiller3753 I hope to see James this Friday at the Central Ohio Bushcraft Gathering. You are 💯 percent right. The Stanley cook set of James puts a Swiss Army knife to shame.
I will be there Thursday and Thursday night, but I have to leave Friday morning for another event.
@@WayPointSurvival Well James I will be looking for you as I really want to shake your hand and meet you. I am hoping to arrive Thursday night around 6:30 Eastern time, I have a 5 hour drive from IL to get there.
You can add a little dryer lint mixed on the top of the wax to start it better.
Yes you could. Thank you for watching.
Just great for avoiding frost bite too.
Very clever, James. And, I just happen to have a mini Altoids tin around here somewhere. Good one, again. Thanks.
Thank you for watching!
That was awesome. I love this content. Thanks for the video
Is brilliant, In my experience the flame doesn´t need to be so close to the bottom of the pan, for example the alcohol burner reach its maximun power being around 4 cm from the base of the pot. Just in case it helps , Nice idea.
Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your experience.
James Thanks Once Again For the Awesome Video and BTW Your the Best!!!
Thank you for watching and for the kind words!
Nice little addition!
Thank you!
Nice job. Have to try this. I think this will fit nicely in a ALICE compass/field dressing pouch
Sounds good. Thanks for watching.
Man that's a great little project I've used them for alcohol burners they work good too
Yes, that's another good option with them as well!
Hi Jame I love watching you videos this one with the cardboard and wax very good .
Just 1 thing if you put a pice of string in to help start the fire when pouring the wax it will be the wick .pete in Ireland
Thank you for watching and for the tip!
This is awesome. Can't wait to do this with my kids! 👍
Great, thank you for watching!
Wow, I just found your channel and I am now emersed in your content!!! lol
😊 THANKS 😊
Thanks for watching and I'm glad that you're enjoying the channel!
I think Id l;eave the sm stove out and use it as twig stove. Fold up some moist towellettes in , to keep clean with.. Also put some packges of alcohol wipes in for fire starters
Sure, you could do that.
We did something like this in the boy scouts with tuna fish cans and another, larger can. I think it was the kind of can sweet potatoes came it? Cut the sweet potato can down a bit and punched holes in it. flip it over and heat up food.
Yes. Buddy burners have been around for quite a while. Thanks for watching.
That's pretty slick. I have tried using 4 tea Tree candles, and I have even tried to make a big candle with a huge Wick. But none of them worked as well as this. My guess is because of the surface Flame. Good job
Thank you so much and thank you for watching.
Subscribed! I love this complete little kit 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you so much and welcome aboard!
great tip on the slots on the back. first time i made one i didn't think about that and made a mess lol
Thank you for watching. Yes, that's always a problem with putting any kind of fluid in an Altoids tin.
I love the DIY stuff.
Good video and project , thanks for sharing , God bless !
Thank you for watching, God bless you too!
Excellent James!!
Thank you!
Great little item
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Nice kit. Thanks for showing us.
Thank you, my friend!
I carry a small Altoids box in my watch pocket in my jeans. I've kept fire starter items in it, bur now I'll be switching it up.
Sounds good, thank you for watching!
That's lot in a small unit good job Buddy
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Thanks for another helpful video. See you next time.
Thank you so much!
Yet another excellent "Hack"......thank you Sir
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Thank you, again, for another great idea.
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AWESOME ADD-ON!!!😁👍🏻
Thank you!
I learn something every time. I'm old also😅
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Impressive options for something this simple! You could even make an alcohol version of that buddy stove (Summer tea or chunky soup, you know...)
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Very clever, well done 👍 👍
Thank you so much!
I like the buddy stove and buddy burner
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Stinking awesome! 😎
Thanks!
What I did was cut down some small birthday candles and spaced through out the cardboard so the wicks stuck out above the height of the cardboard and the wick would fold over so the top would close... much easier to ignite...
Good idea. Thank you for watching.
I'm just now seeing this. Where in the world have I been? Love it. You could use a regular Altoids tin to make a bigger one.
Absolutely!
Great idea. Thanks for sharing
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I would use some of the wax to seal the large altoids tin for long term and water proof storage maybe brush on a couple of layers of wax
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Awesome hobo stove
We used to use sawdust soaked in kerosene as a firestarter. The trick was to mix pine sawdust with just enough kerosene to make a thick paste.
That's a great idea. Thanks for watching.
Just terrific !!
to help light the tin, put a waxed piece of srring in the center like a candle
Yes. That will work at least for the first burn.
Interesting little project.
BTW, when I spent a little time in school. 29.9cm was 11 3/4 inches. give or take.
Well, I just Googled the answer so it's probably not correct, lol!
I was thinking of creating some kind of alcohol stove with lantern wicks and a shoe polish can yesterday...
Excellent, thanks for watching!
You're an ingenious different kind of animal and thanks I'll add that to my Altoid burner
Thank you, glad you liked it!
About 60 years when I made my first tuna can buddy burner we use newspaper instead cardboard.
Instead of the bundle of fat wood how about a slice of paraffin. The burner can be recharged by laying a chunk of paraffin on it while it is burning.
Good idea about the chunk of Paraffin. Thanks for watching!
The coolest thing about buddy burners is refilling them. You light it up and then throw in a chuck of wax to melt, refill done.
Indeed. Thank you for watching.