How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

When going winter fishing or spending the night in a tent, it’s a good idea to have a small heater to keep you warm or at least warm your hands. You can make it from an ordinary oil filter.
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

Materials:


  • oil filter;
  • tin;
  • furniture perforated corners – 4 pcs.;
  • M3-M6 bolts with nuts – 4 pcs.;
  • candle tablet.

Making a heater from an oil filter


The oil filter has a rolled edge that is ground off.
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

After this, the bottom is disconnected from the body. The filter is disassembled and cleaned. In particular, you need to burn the filter element to free the mesh from the paper. The design will use a body, a cover, a check valve and a mesh.
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

Holes are drilled along the upper edge of the filter housing to allow hot air to escape. We need to make more of them.
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

Holes are drilled in the filter cover for bolting 4 legs, which are used as furniture corners. Instead, bent drywall hangers can be used, but they are flimsy, so the structure will be less reliable during transportation.
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

You need to cut and bend a lid for the mesh from tin. It will allow for better heat dissipation in the future so that the top of the case heats up less, since open flames will not reach it.
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

You need to drill holes in the check valve for air flow. They are made along the edge.
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

The heater assembly looks like this:
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

A filter cover with legs is installed, and a check valve is placed on top of it. A lit candle is placed on it, then a mesh with a tin lid and a body.
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

If there is a lid on the mesh, the paraffin in the candle melts, causing it to go out faster. With this assembly, the heater can be used during winter fishing to warm your hands by placing them directly on the filter housing.
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

If you use a heater to warm up the tent, the lid is removed from the mesh. In this case, the candle in the sleeve burns as usual for 3-4 hours. However, during such an assembly, the body of the heater becomes hot, and it is better not to touch it.
How to make a mini tourist heater from an oil filter

A filter heater powered by candles, although it has a low thermal power, is enough to warm your hands in cold weather or maintain comfortable warmth in a tent when the temperature outside is positive. Such a device does not smoke, installs and ignites in a minute, weighs little and takes up almost no space.

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Comments (1)
  1. Gfdtk
    #1 Gfdtk Guests 5 April 2020 18:34
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    What's this? Is this a joke or a joke? What can it heat up and why can’t you just burn this garbage without anything?