Friday, September 5, 2025

What If Your Furnace and Electricity Go Out?

This guy shows how to make a lamp/heater using a Mason jar and copper pipe that can both give basic illumination and heat.  He recommends using denatured alcohol but demonstrates that 70% isopropyl (rubbing alcohol) works just fine.

You could make these in advance but you can also make these once disaster hits if you still have a working cordless drill, a Mason jar, some pipe, and a way to cut the pipe. 

2 comments:

  1. That is a really crappy and inefficient design and a terrible build.

    Having said that, it is easy to do and takes very little skills, so nearly anyone could do it.

    At the end of it, it works, if poorly.

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