Amazing Fuel Ball! [ CHEAP & EASY! ] 

You do know that burning that insulation gives off highly TOXIC fumes and residue. Usually your hacks and tips are spot on, this one not so much. Stay safe

I did a video on this back in 2008. Nice to see you've made some improvements on the idea.

Fiberglass is not flammable. All you're actually burning is the alcohol. The fiberglass is simply used as a way to cheaply soak up and hold the alcohol while it is burning. As far as the smoke, I wouldn't recommend breathing the smoke from any fire large or small.

@@WayPointSurvival fiberglass is most certainly flammable. Ever see a housefire. No insulation is left. According to niosh, osha, and the building trades council, fiberglass is also friable( not a misspelling) during fire, giving off particulant matter. Check the niosh manual.

You can’t get much lighter then that. Nice idea.

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Brilliant! I was looking for something like this for alternate way to boil cook secretly in urban “black out no electric “ but flames not allowed by landlord or military or city orders curfew .

​@@barbaralong2212I bet carrying a extra cup or can and make a lid out of another cut off lid ( screw for center of lid ) you can place it under and put a lid on it to put it out

I was thinking the same

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The wond resistance is very impressive! The best quality about it imo

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It sounds very much like the one that I made using an altoid's tin. Thanks for watching!

Actually that brings up an interesting idea. I got a couple bird feeders (the square ones 4x4x1.5 i think, where you can slip in a sleeve of pre-made bird seed). The metal is too far apart to be useful (to stuff with insulation anyways) in this case, but if we could add the same mesh (say reusing a strainer or salvaging a oil splash guard, i'd avoid the metal screen but if someone tested and that worked i'd reconsider) add insulation, fold in thirds and close, insert with a large round tin lid on one side (to separate from the ground), and close it, might get a similar thing for a semi on-the-go combination stand and stove. Though you have to burn the plastic off first before starting. Though for about a dollar at Dollar General you can get a sink strainer, turn upside down and stuff it and you might get a similar effect once you put on top of an appropriate canister. Though i'd probably take a gel-fuel container or something and do something similar. Don't know, but if the insulation didn't burn up and the alcohol will work, brings up several useful ideas to try.

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@@WayPointSurvival you're welcome. I'll have to try it out. Might replace the "catfood" stove in my 2 cup cook set.

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The extra mesh allows for better air flow. The heat goes up so I don't see how a solid bottom would be beneficial.

@@ShojoBakunyu It's called experimentation. A solid bottom would direct heat up and make for more efficient heating. That mesh isn't doing much for air flow.

May be flatten out the bottom a bit of " J B Weld " or wire a flat metal disc in the bottom ??? Mtn Mel , Ret USN SERE, Colo.

Yes , the goes flame up ! Good.

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Thanks for watching. I'm sure that could work also.

I tried Robert's carbon felt and vegetable oil in a copper ummm fitting? Didnt work, not sure what I did wrong.

@Vicki M couldn't say for sure but a lot of times vegetable oil needs to be started with a drop or 2 of alcohol. Pretty sure he normally uses methanol with the lab dropper. After it's lit the flame heats the oil altering the viscosity and allowing it to wick and continue burning.

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It's not too bad if you wash your hands immediately after handling it. Thanks for watching!

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That would work well too!

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Yes as long as it wasn't below 32ﾟF.

Thanks for watching. I would definitely not use anything like cotton balls because they would burn up. Insulation, however, is not flammable.

Insulation won't burn. I threw some non fiberglass fiber fill insulation in my fire pit and a year later it was still there.

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Thanks for watching. The video didn't do well enough at this point for me to make a part 2.

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That would work well also! Thanks for watching.

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Thanks. I've handled so much insulation over the years that it doesn't bother me too much.

Thanks. It's not too bad as long as you don't roll in it. Lol.

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Probably not as well. The stainless steel mesh allows the alcohol to fully mix with the air and that's where you get the intense heat from.

You really want the flame to burn out all of the alcohol as it will continue to off gas whatever fuel is left.

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No, it won't get that hot.. Thanks for watching and for your question!

@@WayPointSurvival Thank you for the quick response. I have ALL the ingredients to make several of those...will try it for myself and give a couple of them to my fellow prepper friends. Thank you so much for this pocket sized information...I just love it 😍

It can be used many times as the insulation doesn't really burn out.

@@WayPointSurvival will you ever need to replace the insulation, or is it like the sand and alcohol "tuna can" stove that only needs cleaning (rinsing) once in awhile?

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If you hold it by the ends of the chains, you could drop it into a cup and smother it with the lid

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