One rule of survival is that all items in your kit should serve more than one purpose. If the gadget is not multi-purpose then it is not worth including it in your survival kit.
Take this UCO micro lantern for example. You will find below that it has other purpose aside from providing light.
Collapsing lantern is made of aluminum. Lantern holds two tealight candles
Glass chimney creates a windproof environment for the candle. Attached bail and chain allows lantern to be hung anywhere.
Burns all varieties of tealight candles.
So what's its other use? It can keep your coffee warm for 8 hours(that's how long a tea light candle lasts). I don't have my stainless cup when I took this picture so I just used a can to show you how.
To pass away the time on a lazy Sunday afternoon, I made modifications on my knife & flint steel.
This is how its looks now. And this is how it looks before.
First, I increased the angle between the spine and the blade because I was uncomfortable how pointy the knife was.
Then I reprofiled the blade into a more stronger convex grind. The result was a blunted knife I am not so wary about and a more stronger, sharper convex grind. Looks like it has more character, isn't it? I might replace the shoe lace wrap with a paracord too. Maybe that would be my next project.
I first saw this knife on YouTube. The guy didn't like the way it looks and modified the blade and put scales on the handle. I thought it would be a nice project to do the same so I bought this knife from Amazon.
When I got the knife, I liked it and decided to leave it the way it is.
5 3/8" overall. 2" skinner blade with notch cutout and guthook. The guthook can be used as a seat belt cutter. There is a bottle opener at the end of the handle you can use when the knife is inserted on the sheath.
It has a sharpening rod on the sheath.
And a firesteel too.
The blade is sharp enough to make fuzzy stick. With its built-in sharpening rod and firesteel, it's a nice, compact kit to bring along on a short walk into the woods. It fits very well in my back pocket.
I made this alcohol stove based on a design I found on the Internet. I have a hobo stove which uses wood as fuel. But sometimes early in the morning when the surrounding is damp, it's hard to find dry twigs.
It's made from a cat food can and has a total of 32 holes. I used a paper punch to make the holes.
It uses denatured alcohol or heet as fuel. It takes 2 - 3 minutes to boil a cup of water.
A very convenient way to boil water when dry wood is not available. Light and easy to carry too.
That's all folks! Thanks for reading.
