Posted: 3/26/2013 4:38:26 PM EDT
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So I am thinking of ordering so wax to make some emergency candles and to dabble in scented candles for the wife.
As I was reading up on the different waxes I figured on getting the blended wax (4630?). I know that I have to pore it into molds but how much do I need? It comes in 10lb or 60lb case. |
| Not sure on blends, but I just buy up paraffin wax at stores, and save up the fat chunks from animals I shoot or food I cook. Then rendering tallow from the fat is easy. I have a substantial bag of fat stored up in the freezer. Mostly I like small candles for my UCO candle lantern, so it's easy to make a mould from a commercial candle with plaster of Paris. |
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Thought about this:
http://teotwawkiblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/diy-survival-candles.html The wife likes hurricane lamps, so we have quite a few of those, and she's always finding more at yard sales and flea markets, and we have lots of lamp oil, so candles seem redundant, but still should have more. We have about a zillion tea lights. Local place went out of business and sold bags of 50 tea lights for a quarter. Cleaned them out. Big score there. I keep a few in the car in a clay tube just in case I get stuck somewhere when it's cold. Btw, a small camp skillet sits atop the hurricane lamp globe, on the larger lamps, and will heat small meals, and a canteen cup is about perfect for small soup meals (bouillon with meat and veggies, soup mix etc). A few hurricane lamps in a room, kept low to the floor will heat a room, and you can heat food, and do minor cooking on them (eggs, etc.). I should still get more candles though. |