oil lamp

[stijnb]

At the bc weekend I came up with the idea to make an oil lamp out of a (beer)can and a bit of cloth(don't ask me where it came from ) and i thought it might be usefull to some of you......


the idea is that you make something like the penny stove, only instead of using two bottoms, you use a bottom and a top-piece, then you turn the opener over the hole and put the piece of cloth through that, fill it with any form of oil or grease you can find and it should work



photo taken at the bc weekend with thijzz on the background:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39455661@N00/2902439436/in/set-72157607604549894/

hope it's of any use.....

 

[Still Waters]

Brilliantly simplistic

Im going to make one of those just for the fun of it cheers for sharing

 

[Pignut]

Made one of these last night, burned for about 4 hrs with veg oil!

Got me to thinking of other more "decerative/perminant" ways of doing it!

If all goes well I will post a picture or 2 later!

Thanks for the idea!

 

[Tadpole]

At the bc weekend I came up with the idea to make an oil lamp out of a (beer)can and a bit of cloth(don't ask me where it came from ) and i thought it might be usefull to some of you......


the idea is that you make something like the penny stove, only instead of using two bottoms, you use a bottom and a top-piece, then you turn the opener over the hole and put the piece of cloth through that, fill it with any form of oil or grease you can find and it should work



photo taken at the bc weekend with thijzz on the background:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39455661@N00/2902439436/in/set-72157607604549894/

hope it's of any use.....

Works in the same way as a Grease lamp, simple and brillant

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Brilliantly simplistic

Im going to make one of those just for the fun of it cheers for sharing

Ditto on that

 

[Pignut]

Here is my version

Burns very well!

 

[Mang]

I don't have any to hand to try but could a small can (Indian Tonic Water size) work without the cutting?

 

[Pignut]

May be to deep, you only need to cut it with scissors

 

[durulz]

Mmm...methinks this could be a source for a 'just for laughs' competition.
So, who can make one of these using the most middle-class brand of booze?
Out with those cans of mixed Pims and Schweps G&T...

 

[stijnb]

@pignut: that's a great idea!
I was also thinking about using a beer bottle top as a windscreen, only problem is on how to cut the bottom straight(petrol soaked cord might work) and some air inlet holes would be needed.
Hmmm might give that one a try.....

 

[Mang]

May be to deep...

I'm thinking of the 3" high ones...

Mmm...methinks this could be a source for a 'just for laughs' competition.
So, who can make one of these using the most middle-class brand of booze?
Out with those cans of mixed Pims and Schweps G&T...

LOL this though occurred to me too

Well there's one of me, 10250 of you, I make that BCUK o'clock!

 

[Pignut]

I'm thinking of the 3" high ones...



LOL this though occurred to me too

Well there's one of me, 10250 of you, I make that BCUK o'clock!

at 3" you will be fine!

 

[xylaria]

A bit of variation on a theme. I filled travel sweets container with used chip fat, added a cotton rag. I lit the dry end of rag and boiled a kettle of water on it. It took about 20 minutes and there was still plenty of fuel left. to put out the flame i simply put the lid back on the travel sweets. The only problems was it smelt like a chippy and the kettle was left a bit sooty.

 

[Tadpole]

A bit of variation on a theme. I filled travel sweets container with used chip fat, added a cotton rag. I lit the dry end of rag and boiled a kettle of water on it. It took about 20 minutes and there was still plenty of fuel left. to put out the flame i simply put the lid back on the travel sweets. The only problems was it smelt like a chippy and the kettle was left a bit sooty.

Someone, on this ite has done the same with wax and cardboard. (roll the cardboard up and put in a tin, then filled the tin with wax) I'm sure it was a cooker, although it may have been a lamp?

 

[JonnyP]

Someone, on this ite has done the same with wax and cardboard. (roll the cardboard up and put in a tin, then filled the tin with wax) I'm sure it was a cooker, although it may have been a lamp?

http://www.bushcraftliving.com/waxstove

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Mad Dave also posted about the Card/candle stove

 

[xylaria]

I thought it was so simple an idea, a bunch of people must come up with it first. Like inuit blubbler candles. The lid goes back on tight and rag wraps around the tin, so the tin doesn't leek greese. it is very very simple. It just needs a stand for kettle to go on.

 

[johnnytheboy]

Just as a sideline i noticed crockets in glasgow sold the wicks in all diffrent sizes, i had an old storm lamp i chucked out because i ran out of wick

 

[ForgeCorvus]

Just as a sideline i noticed crockets in glasgow sold the wicks in all diffrent sizes, i had an old storm lamp i chucked out because i ran out of wick

Any 'proper' ironmongers should sell wicking

The best place I ever found not only had different sizes, they had two different grades and sold it off reels by the foot

Small place it was, somewhere near Ingelton (Three Peaks), that was about ten......maybe fifteen years ago, its probably a tourist tea shoppe now


I'm trying to remember a way of cutting the bottoms off bottles, something with oil......I'll get back to you on that

 

[johnnytheboy]

put string round the bottom of a bottle soaked in oil set it on fire when the flame goes out put it in cold water, or put a steel bar through the neck and bang it off the bottom usually knocks the bottom out of it