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langston302

langston302

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long lasting cupcake fire starter...or stand alone cooking cups...or magic candles..whatever you want to call em....

needs...
knife(duh)
parrafin
cupcake cups or catsup cups from restuarant
fatwood or wood of your choice
heat source and saucepan
cupcake pan
candle wick
time

this is so easy i am sad it took me finding them and buying three boxes of production models to figure it out.

step one: shave the fatwood into slivers and curly ques....i like to crunch them in my hands after to make dust too.
step two: put cupcake cups in pan and place 2-3 inch candle wick inside
fill with shavings
step 3: melt parrafin and fill the cups until you see the wax pooling around the top (dont forget to cover the wick!)
step 4: palce in freezer or just let cool on own...
step5 : light with lighter or ferro rod!

these will burn up to 50 minutes depending how dense you make them i have had one go for for 57 minutes...the will burn hot enough to boil 16 ounces of water in 10 minutes...not great but an alternative for sure
 
very cool langston...:thumbup: i need to try making some of those, one of these days....:o
 
Those look good. So is the wick just for getting it started then? I assume once the wax and fatwood catch the flame gets pretty huge.
 
"these will burn up to 50 minutes depending how dense you make them"

And how long if you thicken the mix a bit with some plain vanilla fine sawdust too?
 
Ya, do you light the wick and the wick burns or does the whole thing start burning? If the whole thing burns, then what's the point of the wick?
 
i would say, the wick is just for getting it started, it would take much longer if you just lit the wood

thank you for that tip, i' ll definatley try that out soon.
 
CanDo YES by all means please...actually, the fatwood starts right off with a rod...i just use the wick as a redundant lighting system...
 
We did something similar in the Boy Scouts. We'd roll up cardboard. Tie twine around it every 2". Cut it so that each 2" piece was held by a piece of twine at the center. Then dip it in hot wax. It would burn for a half an hour.
 
those are actually in the US Army expedient incendiary device field manual. except they tell you to use plain sawdust in a brown paper bag.
great article thanks for taking the time to make up the how to.
 
We do roughly the same thing in Boy Scouts, except with dryer lint and an egg carton. I'll bet the fatwood works even better though!
The Klippe article looks great - thanks langston!
 
Those are cool I made some a few weeks ago with sawdust, lint/cotton balls and wax in a cardboard eggcrate. I didn't include wicks though, bet that makes it a ton easier to light.
 
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