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| Alee |
Posted - Mar 29 2008 : 8:22:49 PM
Check out this helpful site!
http://www.judyofthewoods.net/lamp.html
Alee
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| StitchinWitch |
Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 12:40:00 PM
When I was first married we moved to the mountains and I did this with the first power failure we had before I had a chance to lay in a supply of candles. Put some veg oil in a custard cup, cut a little circle of cardboard, poke a hole in the middle, and push a bit of string through it. It worked great -- made the dark go away. Adding water is an excellent suggestion.
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| Alee |
Posted - Jul 16 2008 : 11:03:48 PM
Linda-
What a great idea! I hadn't thought about putting water in the bottom to extinguish I the light! Thanks for sharing your expertise!! I want to make some for my garden and put some citronella in them to keep bugs at bay!
Alee
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| LindaMAlbert |
Posted - Jul 16 2008 : 9:10:04 PM
I've used oil lamps with floating wicks for years now. I first saw them in an Orthodox church and they have been using them for a couple thousand years because they had access to olive oil more than beeswax, they don't drip in a draft like candles and they can be left burning in the church at night unattended without danger.
They look beautiful in clear glass jars and with a half inch of water in the bottom they extinguish themselves automatically when the oil is exhausted. I make my wick floats out of the little aluminum cups from tea lights and 1/4 inch cork coasters available in the garden section of the hardware store. I cut the cork to fit the cups with a paper punch hole in the middle so the cork is a ring shape. I fit this into the aluminum cup, the cut down the sides of the cup so it's flush with the cork. I turn the whole thing over so I'm looking at the metal side, then use a round toothpick to make a hole down through the middle for the wick. I use regular cotton kitchen string that I have swished around in hot beeswax the pulled tight as it was cooling and then cut into 1 inch lengths. 8 ounces of oil and 1 wick will usually last 24 hours or more.
Linda
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| OregonGal |
Posted - Apr 12 2008 : 11:11:28 PM
I saw the site also and it so intrigues me that I read all the posts from other people there. Then I decided to make one
myself. I made one with a floating wick like one of the people from the site had seen when in Europe. So I figured
I could think of something to make a floating wick. So I used the aluminum from a soda can, some styrofoam from
a pkg of meat from the store (or a box you get at a restaurant to take home food) and some string from feed bags
that I braided together for a wick, and some old rancid corn oil I've had sitting around thinking someday I might
have a use for it. It works ok but I think I need a better wick because it doesn't stay lit for very long.....or perhaps
its the rancid corn oil I'm using - don't know. But the floating idea works very nicely in a pint sized large mouth jar.
I explained on her site how I made mine if any one is interested. |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Apr 09 2008 : 08:09:29 AM
Thanks, Alee. I like her ideas and I printed off a lot of her stuff to try at home myself.
Speaking of composting waste... I'm going to start another thread.
Farmgirl Sister #35
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| greentea |
Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 07:03:30 AM
Oh I wished I'd seen this before I bought olive-oil lamp wicks from Lehmans!
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| bboopster |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 12:18:28 PM
Thank you very cool site. 
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| Mountain Girl |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 09:20:42 AM
As I type this Jim is walking down to the shop to make one. Thanks for the link to the site. JoAnn |
| Alee |
Posted - Mar 30 2008 : 07:52:27 AM
Me Too!
I wish I had known about this before I bought my lamp oil. I love the pictures of the lamps. I am going to garage sale my lantern now and make my own!
Alee
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Mar 29 2008 : 10:23:13 PM
That IS a GOOD site..very interesting. I would much rather store alot of extra vegetable oil than lamp oil!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
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| farmgirl blessings |
Posted - Mar 29 2008 : 8:30:54 PM
Alee, this is one of the very best sites I've read in a while. I can hardly wait to make my own vegetable oil lamp. Did you see the free Wildfood Handbook download? It's wonderful. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Blessings, Lea
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