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altoids survival kit

altoids survival kit

this is my first instructable so feel free to add some critesism.
This is a pocket sized survival kit, made out of an altoids tin. There are probably thousands of them out there. And by all means customize your kit for your area & your personal preferances.

 
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Step 1Stuff needed

stuff needed
To make our altoids survival kit we will need:
2 bandages
1 blued razor blade(makes the blade stay sharper longer) made by holding the razor in the blue part of the flame
1-5 packs of salt
1-5 packs of sugar
toothpicks
bobby pin
5 paper clips
q-tips
4sagety pins
2 square feet of heavy duty aluminum foil
arrow head
gum
sandwich bag
4 tylenol
4motrin
2 rubberbands
3 feathers ( can be replaced with duct-tape if you want to save some space
paper
match striker
button compass
personal info
neon orange tape
duct tape
5 matches
1 small pen
three strike on anything matches
1 quick strike lighter ( made by placing two butts of a match on a striker foling in half and duct-taping)
hook
swivel
fishing line wrapped on b-day candle
fly
jig
two fishing weights
and the tin
not shown (boyscouts hot spark , small knife, small flashlight, steel wire)
also a survival kit cheat sheet. you can download this pdf at
http://www.troop149mchenry.org/PSKsheet.pdf
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13 comments
Dec 29, 2010. 7:54 PMjhonny says:
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Dec 30, 2010. 2:59 PMjhonny says:
to use in the tiny pistol for hunting
Jan 6, 2011. 4:10 PMrlnbkseeberger says:
where did you get a tiny pistol?
Jan 6, 2011. 9:49 PMjhonny says:
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Sep 13, 2011. 6:29 AMlpdunwell says:
yeah, sure.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Altoids-survival-kit-1/?comments=all#CERBA2SGOL8ATNC
Apr 14, 2011. 9:57 AMsubti7 says:
I've been looking at a few survival tins lately...one thing you all might consider are some trick birthday candles - they're VERY hard to blow out and in fact are waterproof (until you place them IN water apparently lol!)
Feb 20, 2011. 7:16 AMAir_Assassin says:
ok:)
Jan 9, 2011. 6:14 PMAir_Assassin says:
How do you use the fly? lol

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