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You are correct that you need the type of wick that is incredibly loose and thick and wide and the container needs to be small. These wicks and all modern wicks are 100% cotton as in this video or sometimes fibre glass. This is about small modern decorative oil candles. If you want to use lambs wool washed and unthreaded like the olden days it will affect the look and the smell. Lamp oil is designed to work in... well...lamps
@@clearcraft9631zippo wick would help out. The copper wires will help transfer heat down into the olive oil heating it up reducing its viscosity allowing it to wick better.
Olive oil is actually one of the oldest methods for lighting a lamp. What do you think people used when kerosene wasn't available or before it was invented in the late 1800s? Lol 😂 test a proper wick that thing doesn't look like it's absorbing any of the oil. Olive oil lamps will burn for hours
You say "stinks like a chip shop". I say, "has an aroma reminiscent of that charming bistro you visited on your first date with your beloved." Smells the same but sounds so much better.
Besides the wrong kind of wick, if you heat the olive oil for an hour using a higher heat without a boil, it thins out the olive oil and works great…..I particularly like to use used olive oil and strain it…it works great and burns bright……plus if you want a nice brite flame, have an small air hole to prevent oil from over spilling as the wick draws it up….also use carbon fiber felt as the wick, it’s amazing
I use regular olive oil for a homemade oil lamp (not extra virgin) as it’s more refined. There is no smell while burning except when it’s snuffed out of course…when I blow it out I immediately set a rounded coaster on top of it, wait 10 secs then I lift it and give it a quick puff…the smoke dissipates better that way. The oil must be filled just slightly below the part of the wick you light. It’ll burn for hours that way.
1. Need right type of wick material. 2. Need to soak the wick, completely submerging it in oil before lighting. 3. Need right type of olive oil, some have additional properties added which interfere with burning.
All this is true, but the wick needs to be incredibly thick which is not suitable for small oil candles. Olive oil is just too viscous. It is perfect for cooking.
You're doing it wrong! The heavy oils require the reaction to happen on the oil surface. Ive solved that problem with floating devices. Your test is inaccurate!
Problem could be not cotton wick but the biggest problem here is there's a neck on the glass containers wich olive oil or canola oil need the wick to be close as possible to the oil so when you burn it the wick should only be quarter inch high little less than it won't smoke and wick has to be quarter inch thick in width and when it burnt down about 3/4 of a inch fill back up pull new wick up and start again and will burn just fine!
Cooking oil and kerosene mix very well. The perfect ratio is 80% kerosene 20% cooking oil. The point is to stretch out your kerosene. Kinda like how they add 10% ethanol to gasoline.
To burn olive oil, half fill a small glass jar with salt, about an inch deep. Now cut a cotton swab in half, making sure it is the type that has a paper shaft, not plastic. Center the dry swab upright in the salt bed with the cotton end up. Light the swab with a match stick or flame gun, and then immediately begin pouring the oil slowly and carefully over the salt, until just a small portion of the burning swab tip is exposed. Voila! (Note: If the swab tip is saturated in oil before you attempt to light it, it will be much harder to light, for some reason. Not impossible, but fire has to char the cotton first, before it can sustain a continuous flame using the olive oil as fuel. I imagine one could also dip the cotton swab into rubbing alcohol before lighting it. 😊)
I am trying to use up old olive oil that is not as nice for cooking, I was hoping to find a way to make the wick burn longer. Maybe lower the surface tension of the oil but remain healthy to burn...
My homemade lamps burn olive oil just fine. The only reason i don't stock for doomsday is because you wouldn't be lighting your calories on fire in a survival scenario. Might be good for a winter power outage if you're trying to avoid parafin candles.
Water is not going to burn, the oil will float on it. The only reason people ever added water was as a cheap way to get the oil level in the reservoir higher up the wick as a matter of thicker oils not being able to wick upward for very long distances. I think Olive Oil is only really good for about an inch of wicking in most cases. If the oil is too low it won't wick upward high enough. Part of this is fed by the flame's heat, too. The heat from the flame will thin the oil a bit, making it wick a little better. With some wicks actually having a bit of metal woven into them to conduct the heat down from the flame lower into the wick to help with the oil warming process. Anyway, the whole thing with water conceptually would be like this: "Oh shoot, the oil in the reservoir is too low [won't wick high enough as a result], and I don't have more oil to add to it right now. Guess I'll add some water [that will sink to the bottom] to raise the oil higher up on the wick." It's a bit of a mess to deal and you'd be better served by just adding more oil. The problem in this video is almost certainly the wrong kind of lamp/wick for olive oil.
