SURVIVALISTS please Help!!!! Need advice on candles!

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I have had some candles that are in jars that have lasted a lot longer then that...The pretty scented ones. Asked where they sale them how long they last. I had one that lasted for weeks and I lite it everyday.

Oil lamps work better, and the fuel is multi-use. Imo, candles are a waste.

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+1 and they will burn used cooking oil.

Too expensive. You are paying for the name Coleman. Go to the dollar store and you can buy a 5 pack of emergency candles ( 6") for $1.00. They last a long time. Also, the average tea light lasts 4 hours...

Thats one thing I never had, I might have to check into that!

also consider having at least some cyalume light sticks-- even the mini kind for fishing lures-- as they do not use up oxygen like a candle. just a thought.

I didnt even think to check the dollar store. I never seen them there but never looked. thanks EAT!

that I do...

Awesome thanks!

Isnt oil lamp oil kinda expensive?

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and here's some Amazon Oil lamps, any in particular anyone recommends?

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I agree with ditching the name Coleman, buying the jar candles and investing in the Cyalume chemical-light sticks.

I have stored about a hundred tea lights from the dollar store but they do not burn as efficiently as the more expensive ones...still anything is better than a name brand.

Find a nice heavy glass holder for your tea lights to make them throw the light better and make them safer. Not good if you are all ready for disaster and you burn your abode down.

Especially in earthquake prone areas a jar candle will be much safer and less likely to start fires than a stick candle stuck to a jar lid or a candlestick.

The light sticks are the handiest and safest yet for a day or two of power outages. I always keep a handful of them ready for a big storm.

You might also think about getting some solar-powered lights for long term power outages, although in cloudy weather they don't recharge as well.

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Id love to be able to afford solar panels... :(

This might sound weird, but Novena candles are a great deal.
If you're not familiar with them, they are the religious candles used by Catholics. Primarily Latino Catholics.

They sell them at Walmart, they come in a tall glass container and will burn for days. I'd say at least 30hrs of burn time per jar.

They cost about $2. They do come in plain glass, if you are weirded out by having the "El Sagrado Corazon de Jesus" image on your candles. LOL

I must have at least 5,000 tea lights.

Wow, Ill check for them!
Thanks

Damn!!!!

We got/get the 'used' candles from our local Catholic church - thousands of hours' worth of the things. Marvellous!

Those tea lights burn for like 3 or 4 hours

i orderd some of these since they were on sale
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Different oils have different smoke points, some will produce soot easier, the length of the flame and wick are what make this happen, longer wick=more soot. They can be made out of any empty glass jar, some wire to hold the wick, and a wick, cotton is the preferred choice, it can be as simple as tearing a shirt into strips.

Get parrafin from a chemical supply firm. I use cat food cans, heavy cotton twine,and a weight to keep the wick down.

That's funny. My problem is there's so much paint on the candles it blocks half the light.

You can purchase single garden solar lights that throw a decent glow for about $3. The warmer colored solar tiki-torch style looks just like a pillar candle, they're about $12.




I have some of those too, I have been able to find ones without any decoration on them, just plain clear glass and white wax.

save up that money and get yourself a pair of good night vision goggles. if you light candles, it can give away your position to wandering bandits and robbers.

One thing that people do not know is that human or any type of animal sperm is actually flammable. Dip any wick or a piece of rope into sperm and light it, it will stay lit for several hours.

Archeologists have confirmed this flammable or combustible sperm story. Way back in the late 1960s and early 1970s there was alot of buzz about this story that some archeologists unearthed what was thought to be ancient caveman "fire stones" when they had the stones carbon dated and analysed, they found traces of human and gazelle sperm on the fire stones. This led them to believe that cavemen soaked the fire stones in sperm before striking them together. However not long after the story came out, mainstream archeologists came out and debunked it saying that there could be other explanations for the traces of sperm on the stones. So they actually conducted tests on live and dried sperm to see if it was combustible, and much to their surprise, it was!