Anyone ever try this? The 72 hour claim seems long but it sounds like a good thing to have around in a cabinet for if its ever needed.

Interesting.

It is said to always keep a bottle of alcohol (rubbing), a roll toilet paper, and a (unattanium) metal coffee can in your vehicle during freezing weather. The toilet paper is not for what you think.

What you do is put the toilet paper roll in the metal coffee can and pour in the rubbing alcohol. Add as needed. It soaks up in the toilet paper and effectively makes a "heater". The toilet paper not burning, just the alcohol fumes.

Ha! A lard lantern.....a tallow torch.....a Sterno inferno.

Fat is where it's at!

So said the bard of lard.

Whoever said lipid is insipid?

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I don't see why it wouldn't work.
If Gwyneth Paltrow hears about it....

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Gonna need some method to project the light out of the bucket it's going to be in as it consumes the fuel.

quote Originally posted by sourmash: Gonna need some method to project the light out of the bucket it's going to be in as it consumes the fuel.

Yup.
Likely need a "floating" wick if used for longer time as fuel drops and wick gets longer and causes smoke or other problems.

Similar Floating Wicks for oil "lamps" make out of almost anything.

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quote Originally posted by 2.5: Anyone ever try this? The 72 hour claim seems long but it sounds like a good thing to have around in a cabinet for if its ever needed.

72 days is the actual claim. We got any mythbusters here?

quote Originally posted by Hudini: 72 days is the actual claim. We got any mythbusters here?

If it lasted eight days, it would be a miracle.

quote Originally posted by Jake_Dragon: ... If Gwyneth Paltrow hears about it....

You beat me to it. (Great minds think alike.)

I'm thinking this one smells like a KFC. (As opposed to a Captain D's. Did I say that?)

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the heat it provides will be about the equivalent of another person entering the room. 80-100 btu/hr.

quote Originally posted by williegoat: Ha! A lard lantern.....a tallow torch.....a Sterno inferno.

Ha! Love the terms

Yeah, I thought it said 72 hours, not days.

quote Originally posted by 2.5: Just due to old wick material or to let oxygen in better? Punch holes above the lard line?

Yeah, and the light will be deopping down in the container where the light only goes upward.