Altoids Survival Kit

by pbman123

5.0K2014

Intro: 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.

STEP 1: 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

STEP 2: Packing It

first put the pdf cheat sheet on the bottom of the tin
next put the wire around the bottom inside edge of the tin
now your going to want to fold the foil until it can fit inside the tin. Then put the paper clips and bobby pins in the last fold of the foil

STEP 3:

put the stuff in as flat as you can so you can fit as much stuff in as you can

STEP 4:

almost done


(swith sandwich bag to the other side 

STEP 5: Finnally Done

now we put the last few peices in and were done
you might have take two rubberbands around the outside to help hold the tin down
you can aslo wrap some twine or paracord around the outside

14 Comments

BudgetBugout 11 years ago

I see you put a lot of thought into this kit so nicely done.

However, most survivalists agree that you need a knife in a survival situation. I see you have a razor blade but those are quite frail. Have you considered adding a reliable knife? I recently uploaded an instructable that could offer you some ideas. :)

mrbubbles9868 11 years ago

what's the sugar for? i really like this ible, check out my kit at https://www.instructables.com/id/Wilderness-Survival-The-Altoids-Way/

pbman123 11 years ago

Sugar helps alot to clot wounds, also if i can ever find the time i will put up my updated version(its alot better)

lpdunwell 12 years ago

yeah, sure.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Altoids-survival-kit-1/?comments=all#CERBA2SGOL8ATNC

subti7 13 years ago

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!)

pbman123 13 years ago

have? you ever gone fly fishing? if so then you will have a basic idea of how to use it. you basiclly just tie it to the line and draw back a lot longer to let the line get out then start fishing

pbman123 13 years ago

that would be greatly aprieciatede thank you

pbman123 13 years ago

thats nice for you but i like to have my kits filled with anything i might need.
.22 rounds? what are they in aid of

jhonny 13 years ago

to use in the tiny pistol for hunting

pbman123 13 years ago

ya i was wondering the same thing were did you get or how did you make a tiny pistol?

pbman123 13 years ago

oh is that what that is hey would you mind posting a link on how to make or where to buy one of those