How To Have Light For Over A Month Even In A Disaster

On May 20, 2023 Steven Harris posted a Tweet on the NWSS Twitter channel with the mention “30 Days of FREE Emergency Light from 1 Quart of Cooking Oil and a String“. This 20-minute video is more in-depth instruction from Harris regarding page 102 of the revised Nuclear War Survival Skills book.

Harris also has a supplementary in-depth video training to go into more detail about the main topics you need to know from the book. That 2+ hour video training course can be found here:

If the you prefer to read Harris’ instructions on the oil lamp & how to have light for a month or more – instead of watching the video – then here is the transcript from his training.

I’m going to show you how to get 30 days of light for pennies. Watch the video. This page of nuclear war survival skills is all about light. How would you like to have an entire month of light candle light, and it only going to take you one quart of cooking oil? Yeah, I mean one quart of cooking oil and a one quart canning jar glass. And they can give you a month or more of unlimited elimination. Remember, this book, and this is page 102. From the color wars survival skills was written before we even knew what an LED light was let alone LED illumination before we had lithium ion batteries and everything else. And Cresson had to have multiple ways of providing emergency illumination in the shelter. And we are going to show you some of that right now. What you’re looking at right here. Let me get out my nice little tools. Okay, you asked me is Steve, Steve, is that a pint jar? Or is that a quart jar? Or is that a half gallon jar? I know what size jarred is Steve, tell me what size jar it doesn’t matter. It’s, it’s a glass jar. It’s a baby food jar. It’s a pint jar, a half pint jar quart jar, it is a old candleholders on this glass, it does not matter. Okay, get that through your head, it does not matter. Shut up, it doesn’t matter. Now, what does matter. Okay, both and let’s see, let me get control of this again, both in this version here. And this version here. Here the wick is going up from a pair of nails and the bottom of the jar down here. Here it’s floating on a little piece of wood that you carved out. Yeah, this is a piece of this was known as a stick and you took your stick, okay, it’s all about size of your finger. Whichever one you want to pick, you take a stick about size of your finger and you take your this little thing called a knife and you whittle it into this little shape. You put a little hole in it and you run the wick through it. I’m gonna zoom back out here on the important stuff. Okay, so here’s the really important part, you have to remember, this is a cotton string, a real cotton string, not a synthetic string, not a nylon string, not a site. Cycle and jute are natural fibers. But you want a cotton string and not a cycle or jute string. cotton fibers in candles are what we call wicks. It’s like yes, I know that Federal Emergency Management Association, Red Cross, and ready.gov all have said you the American public are too stupid to have a candle do not use candles. Nevermind we’ve used them in one form or another just like this, we use them as oil lamps like this. Before we use candles, I’ve been doing this for like eight to 10,000 years nevermind, we’ve been using it as our only source of illumination for eight to 10,000 years. You’re too stupid in the last 20 years to use a candle. Okay, that’s according to FEMA, the Red Cross and ready.gov They can go screw themselves with their stupidity. So now you go to Home Depot or your hardware store and you find a little ball of twine. And you find this cotton string in there. And you know, it’s like a regular piece of string. It’s like the spec. Now what this lamp is if you put that string in here into this lamp, it’s going to make a flame like a regular candle is going to a nice flame a bright flame. But for a fallout shelter where there is no light and let alone at night. It’s dark. It’s too much light. It’s too much light. It’s burning too much fuel. And what Crescent wants you to do is to take this string that is this big. Okay and he wants you to unravel it and inside of that string. You will find approximately 12 strings this thick, okay. And that’s what he wants you to use is one of those 10 or 12, or eight strings inside the string that you get at the hardware store that are like this thick, not this thick. I don’t take the string, it’s this thick and unwind it, and you’ll find 812 strings this thick. Okay, now cut that off. Now in this case, you’re going to take a quart or a pint jar, and this is cooking oil, peanut oil, corn oil, canola oil. Okay, any type of cooking oil, olive oil, whatever you want, okay, whether it’s rancid or not good or not, it will work fine. And I’m going to pull up the warning up here. Oops, sorry, I have to undo this. I’m going to pull up the warning here. Okay, this is the warning from Cresson. Do not use kerosene, Jet A diesel fuel, gasoline. Only use fats or oils of the kinds you use in the kitchen. You got that? fats or oils used in the kitchen. If you want, you can use Crisco, it’s a solid, but it works as a pretty good candle. So only cooking oils, no petrol chemical stuff like kerosene, no diesel fuel, no gasoline, you’re gonna have an awfully bad day if you try to use that. So that is not for these, these are only for cooking oil. And keep in mind, you can see this little piece that you’re gonna go cut off a little stick from a tree, you know, use your swiss army knife and you’re going to cut this out shape, put a little hole into it, which you can do with the end of the knife. And you’re going to pull your little itty bitty piece of string up through here such that it floats just like this. But let me tell you, the easier way of doing this is this way, and this is the way I have personally done it for three decades. And I used to give them away as presidents all the time. So what you’re gonna do is you’re going to go get some nails or some screws or some rocks or anything that sinks to the bottom of the of this, I use a couple nails, the size doesn’t matter, as long as the nail fits inside the glass jar and this side and fits inside of the glass jar on this side. And this side, it is all fine. Now you can tie this together with a piece of wire with a piece of string, it doesn’t matter you can even tie it together with a piece of the bigger string like this string is right here. Now what you’re going to do is you are going to take this thin piece of string now if you want to use the full string, go ahead this is a good experiment to do before you get to the crisis. So you see how much lighter works this can work as an emergency light in your house. Now, you can use this big of a string and look like a regular candle but also I want you to try it with a piece of string like that. And you are going to find up here this itty bitty little flame you’re not going to believe how small this flame is when you’re using one of those 12 strings out of here. It is small and it will continue to burn. Now the problem is this little string is very wispy that you’ve taken out and it’s not going to want to go straight up like this. See this little stuff here these little wires. These are pieces of metal window screen, non plastic window screen metal window screen are if you want to like get a piece of copper wire and strip it apart then take the individual strands out of it and wrap it around this you can do that you’re just giving it strength and you’re given his strength up until about right here. And this is where it breaks the surface of the oil.
And that’s just so this little piece of string now if you have a little bit too much string like this much coming out of here, don’t worry about it. It will immediately burned down to the point where it’s about only this high automatically. And that will be your little itty bitty string flame in this oil and that little flame made from the piece that’s 1/12 of this or 1/10 of the list that will allow a quart of oil to burn 24 hours a day for almost literally 30 days. I have done it personally. Steven Harris author Our nuclear war survival skills 2022. And all of the updates after I promised Chris and I would do this, he’s been deceased now for about 20 years, I would update his book and make it available in time of emergency that says Now time of emergency. So I have done this and let it burn in my kitchen on the table for over a month. And it does. Okay, it absolutely positively does work, you understand all of the, you know, you’re coming up with all sorts of reasons to not do this. And I just, you know, erased them all and told you the reasons to do this. This really works. In fact, if you take some aluminum foil and you like wrap it around this side, and you wrap it around the back, and you like have it come all the way around here. So this part is all open. And let’s say this represents the back part. You know, the back part is all aluminum foil wrapping around the back half that this little flame went in to scout the aluminum foil shining out. This is more than enough to read a book by you put this thing like you know, by your shoulder, or on a table and you put your book up next to it. You can most definitely 100% Read with this. In that environment. I Guaran damn tee you it works. Now for all of you safety Nellies out there going, Oh no, don’t do that if he gets knocked over. Let me find every reason in the world to not do this. Even though I’ve never done it in my life, I’m going to find every reason not to do it, I’m going to tell everyone not to do it, because I’ve never done it. And I don’t want them to do anything in their life. Because I’ve not done anything in my life. And I’m not prepared and thus I want everyone out stop everywhere. And I want to watch them die before I die. That’s what other people do. They find reasons not to do things. So this flame, especially if you’re using whether the full string, or the little part of the string. If you got a dog with a big tail walking around your house, you know the tail that is of infinite things that hits many different things. And its tail hits this and knocks it over does cooking oil does remember this is doesn’t a volatile fluid like kerosene, gasoline, Coleman fuel, etc. Don’t use those, this is not a very volatile fuel, you gotta have it soaking, that if you drop a match in here, it’ll go out, okay, you got to have a wick, you have to have something with what we call a capillary action, pulling the oil up through it for this flame to ignite on the cotton surface, it will then volatilize the fuel right here. And then it’ll then burn the fuel right here. That’s it. Now if any of you are being like super duper conscious safety Nellies and blah, blah, blah. You can’t do this with this version. Okay. And what I want to tell you is if you get it, you can fill it like up to here with water, while up to here from here is oil, you can’t do it with this version, because the water will go into here and up the string that has the oil soaked into it and it will put this out the water will go up to string so you cannot do it with this version. However, if you come over here and do this version, okay, and let’s let’s raise this up a little bit. Let’s make it a little bit. It’s a little bit more oil in it. And we’re going to make it 50% oil. And this little string is hanging down. This little string is hanging down in the oil. Okay, this is the oil level, right? Well actually do the oil levels right here. Okay, all this is oil. And below this the bottom 25 or 50%. Do I have blue? I don’t have blue. No. Okay. This is all water. So the bottom third or the bottom 50% is water. Okay, and again, the string is floating in the oil above the water. It’s not touching the oil because we don’t want the capillary action. It’s not called the wicking Okay, the chemistry term for this is called capillary action. So, the water this is in the oil so the water is not coming up through here but only the oil is coming up here because it’s floating above the water. And your big dog comes by With the, you know the the golden retriever comes by with big tails like can we come out shelter now dead dead? Can we come out of the shelter? Can we please. And as big tail hits us and knocks it over, this is gonna go flying out and tip over the oil is going to put this out if the oil doesn’t put this out, the water coming out and over is one it’s going to put it out. So this is a very safe, sane, simple candle for you to make yourself out of a glass jar, a piece of cotton, only cotton string. If you go to Home Depot, you’ll see cotton string and it’s got a green wrapper on it. And it says natural and or synthetic fibers. The key thing is or it doesn’t have its natural or since and or synthetic. There are no synthetics in there because when you light it and you blow on it, you’ll see it stays red and nothing crusty and black, like petroleum based. Well, if it was nylon, it’ll crumple up until this little crunchy piece of blackness that’s not there, you won’t find that. If it’s all cotton, it’ll just glow like a red Amber. That’s what you’re looking for. So my friends, that is how you make a simple, sane, easy to use, candle, or actually oil lamp. And oil lamps were used before candles were in history. Again, no kerosene, diesel fuel or gasoline, no Coleman fuel, nothing like that only fats or oils, the kinds you find in the kitchen, Crescent did a very good job when he put that explanation. And he’s got you using those little pieces of wire to go around here. And this is so you can hang it up and have more light in the shelter. Again, there again, like on a mason jar, there really is a pretty strong lip around here. So you can get this all the way around here. That’s one of the ways to alleviate the dog with a tail from putting it from being as a problem. Because if you’re in a shelter, it’s only four and a half feet tall. And he comes by with his tail and he hits us he just going to swing this back and forth. And the oil is just going to put this out anyways, you’re gonna go dark dog stop it. And this is figure 11.2 safe expedient lamp. And it is on page 102 that you can find on nuclear war survival skills.com Or on the book dot and book and wss.com that is watermarks on this page. I hope this helps you. Sorry, I didn’t mean to speak for so long on lamps and light, but light is really a personal passion of mine and making light and every form of making light. And so I really got into the details about this one on you. Rather than just doing some stupid little three minute video. I gave you all the details. 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