How to Make a Wax Stove
More Articles Related to StovesBushcraft Living is one of my favorite survival primitive skills and survival websites and today the site has an article on How to Make a Wax Stove. Now this is nifty.
To make a wax stove all you do is place a piece of old corrugated cardboard in a small can, pour in some melted wax, and you have yourself a great little emergency stove that burns wax as its fuel. Use the portable stove to heat food, heat the inside of a survival shelter, or provide light.
Bushcraft Living reader tips for making the wax stove include
- Coat the bottom of the tin with soap and the soot will wash right off.
- Use corrugated cardboard.
- Closeable boot polish tins work well for use as a wax stove.
What I especially like about the homemade wax stove is that I generally keep a candle in my survival kit anyway.
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You also want to keep about 1/8" of cardboard above the wax. I failed to do this on my first go at this and had the wax flush with the cardboard top. Needless to say, I played hell at lighting it. Eventually it did light and it did very well indeed. I used beeswax which produced virtually no smoke.