MICRO EDC Wilderness Survival Kit "5C Lite+"

hello those of you who watch my channel know I've made a lot of little mini kits travel kits survival kits out of Altoids tins and now eat tic tacs not Altoids so I'm converting most of my kids to Tic Tac boxes since that's now my unlimited supply of little candy tins but I've made things such as a little tactical tool tin I'll have a video about that someday this is a travel toiletry kit I'll have a video on that first-aid can't survival kits I used to wrap these with a paracord because that's a very useful thing to have on you especially in a survival situation however it means you can't open this quickly and easily so I now prefer using my bracelet method this is called a mega bracelet I have a video about that you can carry an unlimited amount of paracord just depending on how fat you want it so if you want to carry 10 feet 20 feet 30 feet 50 feet of paracord as long as you don't mind a giant fat bracelet you can make it any size of one anyway I'm abandoning this outer wrap and I had made one I call this a all-in-one 5c survival kit tick tack box design but I'm gonna undo it because I don't like the paracord on the outside I prefer the bracelet design so let's open this up and see what's inside it's 5c that concept in survival kit design is from I think Dave Canterbury that's where I first heard about it it was one of the original dual survival TV show hosts and the 5 C's that you want in a survival kit are if I can remember them cutting basically means you want to have a knife combustion fancy word for we want to be able to start a fire container you want to be able to care water and ideally sterilize it cordage paracord for instance would be an example of cordage and finally cover you want something like a wool blanket something to keep you warm keep you protected from the elements so how on earth could I fit 5c into something that I can fit in my shirt pocket that's what this video is about we're going to open this up and take a look at world's smallest 5c survival kit you videos and they say you can't fit a complete survival kit into an Altoids tin let alone a tic tac box that's not the concept here the concept is to have sort of like a extra backup kit or maybe just something small enough that you could carry on you every single day I could carry this on me everyday but you know what I'm not gonna carry on me everyday a backpack filled with survival goods this you can slip in your pocket where's big survival kit you can't and the concept here is you want to always have the kit on you so if you for instance trip in the woods break your ankle and have to crawl the safety like happened a few weeks ago to some guy you don't freeze to death in the forest because you've got your little kit so you can start a fire cut some wood maybe make a little tent stuff like that so that's what the concept is with these these things anyway have you tried this flavor pina colada excellent my favorite tic-tac flavor so this is obviously a little bit bigger than a tic tac box I have to had to extend it a little you'll see why and the concept is I want to carry this either in my pocket in my jeans pocket maybe a breast pocket in my jacket it also has a loop up here so I can attach it to my keys if I want to carry it on my keys something as small as possible so let's see what we what we have in here so we've got several feet of paracord this is the smaller variety this is not 550 paracord it's something like 375 I forget but you can open it up and get to at least one extra strand so it will double in length or you can get to that inner strand to use it for fishing for instance so here is the kit I put some camo tape on the edges but fluorescent tape on the sides and this is also going to be very stiff I call these outer outer parts of squash clamps and they're good because you can take them on and off quickly and easily to get to your goods this ones do two-sided so you can be camel if you want to be camo but it can be for fluorescent orange if you want to be fluorescent orange so it makes it sort of like a hunter's vest but let's see how long it takes for me to get this one off also it gives me some space to hide some extra extra doodads under the strap if you want to and over the many years that this has been stored in my kit in my bag it's gotten a little bit sticky because the duct tape glue sort of migrates a bit you okay I can feel it moving now so first thing is the dual sided supply of duct tape again camo on one side fluorescent on the other so you've got some some fluorescent tape and I've marked here 1m I write on my squash clamps how long they are so you know how much how much duct tape do you have one meter a duct tape is not one of the five C's but I certainly consider it a key element to any survival kit should have a stash of at least a meter if not more of duct tape usually when you need duct tape one meter is gonna cover you for your tear or whatever it is you're gonna repair so duct tape I certainly think is a key element so here's the kit and one thing occupies a huge amount of this kit by the way this could not fit a tic-tac box fully shut this actually stuck out a little bit just like a millimeter but of course when it's clamped with all that stuff that's gonna say nice and intact so this comes off now let's see what we have inside here oh I think this is to help pull everything out this is a jute twine which is an excellent form of tinder and if I remember correctly I designed this so if I pull this it helped to pull everything out yep those are falling out of here so we have a razor blade there's our cutting device not as good as a full-sized knife but you know hopefully you have another knife on you this is just the back up kit remember so razor blade MacGyver super tool also known as a paperclip this one's insulated so it can also work as an electrically conductive wire I can use this for all sorts of things you can also bend it for to make it just a stiff piece of wire for poking or repairs of building things ferrocerium rod to start fires so there's your combustion cutting here's a twist twist tie good for sealing bags and such here's a mirror for signaling the plastic mirror good for signaling with sunlight here's a tinder quick that I've compressed flat in a vise but you puff it up by twisting it around so in addition to the jute twine you also have a tinder quick and then this is several things this for one thing is a sewing needle for doing emergency repairs can also magnetized it to float it on water to use as a compass to help find your way also sometimes if you get splinters having a needle or a pin on you is good notice it's pre threaded in survival kits you want your needles to be pre threaded because what if your hands are broken or freezing cold or it's very windy out good luck threading a needle and in an emergency situation and then this is dental floss I can't remember how much I put on here but you obviously unravel it see if it'll slide off yes it'll slide off so that's also another form of cordage dental floss very strong for its size and weight complete with needle for sewing the jute twine and this is a space blanket cover this will protect you from rain it'll keep you warm I use what's called a Z fold you take your space blanket and then you can fold it in the shape of a letter Z and that makes it slim enough to fit inside the tic-tac box now I'll warn you I did this I thought I'll cool it just barely fits and I was able to fit with a few other things to make it 5c however when I then attempted to do it it does stick out just a little bit though but then when I attempted to do it with another space blanket it didn't work space blankets come in different sizes so you're gonna specifically need this size let me get a tape measure I'll be right back in a minute oh and here is our water purification tablets mp1 made by katadyn it's probably expired I need to replace them that's another reason I don't like the whipping on the outside is you need to open your kit up and replace a perishable parts every year or so so it's much easier or not not to do that and it goes to this bag this is a water containment bag this is just a shopping bag from Whole Foods but these are watertight you can even fit like 2 litres of water or more in these and then you can sterilize the water with the water purification tab so there's your container I'll be right back with a tape measure to measure the space blanket hold on okay so the space blanket needs to be looks like four and a half by three so when you buy your space blanket be sure it says it's folded size is four and a half by three if you want to be able to figure it in the tick tack box I'll see if there's anything else in here that I forgot to show you oh it's this Oh a straw with a expandable part - you can use a straw for various applications including a blowpipe for helping to build fires helps you drink the water from the container the plastic bag you can make a filter by stuffing this with cotton or the reconstituted tinder quick that acts as a water filter so that has various aspects I think that's it yep that's it okay so let's see if I got all the five C's here cutting I would actually have a knife on me but there's also a razor blade you can also fit one of the slim Swiss Army knives inside these kits by the way video on making these pocket-sized ones very reflective by taking the scales off and polishing them I call it a poor man's Alex officially this is an Alex has to the metal scales instead of the red keeps it nice and skinny the advantage to both of these whether you make your own or you buy one is it makes it skinny enough to fit inside the case complete with the space blanket so that would be another option cutting combustion in the pharisee room rod container for holding water including purification tab cutting combustion container cordage i had two kinds and cover so there we go world's smallest 5c survival kitten oh I overlooked it but there's a little magnet here at the base of the jute twine so you can use that for magnetizing your needle for making the compass this is a glow stick this was stuck in one of the corners of the kit and it can act as a tent marker for instance to mark your tent basically you snap this the little inner inner element breaks open the two fluids mix and then it glows in the dark basically it's a micro I think they call it a cyan Illume stick I bought mine this was a kid's earring I bought at the party store you snap it at glues so you have a little bit of light but it's Maslin mate basically to act as a marker so here's an exploded view of the complete kit I've reconfigured the paracord into my paraffin configuration this can carry on your keys and whatnot deploying only one second we have the duct-tape paperclip jute twine straw ferrocerium rod twist tie magnet cyano loom stick empty tic tac box reflection mirror razor blade katadyn mp1 purification tab tinder quick 20 feet of dental floss with pre threaded needle Zi folded space blanket and the water collection bag we'll shake vigorously the greenstick is definitely enough to read read a map with one hour later just as bright you

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Length: 18min 55sec (1135 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 16 2020