altoids tin candle

A simple instructable to teach u how to make an easy candle for camping or surviving in the wild.

 

Step 1 Items needed

All u need is a glass jar or anything else to melt your wax,four to six tea light candles,an empty Altoids tin,and either super glue or a hot glue gun.

Comments

[Tim Temple]

Don't forget to put scotch tape on the inside over the hinge holes. Otherwise it will leak when it heats up.

[hbueso]

Great idea. Recycle the wax to be use as a flame retardant for rope or other fuel to make another candle, until al wax is gone.

[MissouriVillian]

I like and have done this before. I used a Camel Snus can though. I use Snus far more than Altoids, and the can stays shut a bit better. I also had more time on my hands so I just placed two candles in the tin and lit the other two and let the melted wax drip into the tin around them. Good if you can't find a melting container. Well done Nathanya.

[nathanya2011]

Thanks I agree they are Very easy to make.

[cammers]

It's like deja vu all over again. Spooky.

[nathanya2011]

Ya I know I will proably take one instructable off

[tjesse]

Did you just redo your old instructable to meet the time requirements of this new contest? I didn't think we could do that. It seems silly to not try to do something different.

[nathanya2011]

i just redid it to enter it in contest. I was so close to winning something in other camping contest kind of mad i didn't win.

[tjesse]

I know why you did it, I was just beating around the bush a bit. I was hinting that you should do a new project, because that is the rules of the contest. If every one did what you were doing then this contest would look an awful lot like the camping contest. I'm getting down off my high horse now so I can make something new to win that $100 Leatherman!

[zazenergy]

thanks for sharing this!

[nathanya2011]

thanks