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How to make a soda can into a Tiki Torch
Click on the above image for a larger one. Not entertaining in the yard much but when Tom's daughter wanted to show movies on a huge screen in the yard for her birthday party, Dad got to work stringing up the line that would hold the plastic screen he would make sewing plastic tablecloths together much like this protest sign he made to cover the front of a home across the river from the ball park.
You could imagine the mosquitoes ate him alive so he started thinking about getting some Tiki torches. Not wanting to spend the money on a bunch of onetime Tiki Torches he bought flat wicks for hurricane lamps and a gallon of citronella torch fuel. You fill up the empty soda can from a measured container; in this case an old tomato can so you leave just about an inch from the top. Cut a regular hurricane flat wick in half lenghtwise two make two torches and while holding it with one half inch sticking out take a large paper clip stretched out with a one eight inch hook in the end and pull out the pushed in tab. Pull it out enough to hold the wick in place and seal the opening. If you drop the wick into the can just pour out the fuel, cut the can open, extract the wick and start over with another soda can. Tom found that the wick burns down pretty close to the top metal and continues to burn for more than six hours. When finished with
the party, return the fuel to the bottle and keep the wicks for another
day.
Pour the fuel into a measured can then into the soda can to prevent overfilling. Pull the tab that is inside up to hold the wick and seal the opening. The can on the far right has been burning for six hours. The wick burns down quickly to what is shown and stays there.
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Soda
Can Tiki Torch
