The flickering lamp of a flame is truly very beautiful and soothes one' s jaded mind....I am an ardent lover of oil lamps and lanterns.....I had stumbled upon your older videos using diesel fuel to light oil lamps... This video was quite delightful.... especially the little oil lamp using red diesel as it's fuel.... It is truly a smidge difficult... rather annoying to surround oneself with the starkness of LEDs...flashlights after soaking in the warmth of a beautiful flame... Regards from India 🇮🇳....
Thank you. And you are absolutely right. The natural flucker of the flame is like a healing light, whereas the stagnant light of LED feels like it steals your life from you in comparison.
@@Tibbs_Farm : I have always found it to be very blissful to gaze at the beautiful flickering flame of an oil lamp....It cannot be disputed it does provide calmness and tranquility to one' s restless mind....I like to consider myself an old soul in this regard.... Someone who loves to buy beautiful oil lamps... lanterns rather than using the annoying flashlights.... LED lamps....I truly hope you do upload more videos about oil lamps .... And the viewers can revel in the glory of their magical aura....
@@Tibbs_Farm I think a flickering flame calms us and scares animals subconsciously from genetic memory. We've used fire to keep the wild animals at bay while sleeping outdoors for millennia. Animals run from fire because they know it will destroy their entire habitat. The fire represents safety to us and destruction to animals. The subconscious is a mighty thing.
In my younger years, I did a lot of camping in a van. Was scared to death to run the battery down in the middle of the woods. Are used to sit and read a book with one of the micro kerosene lamps. It was all of about 3 inches tall and held 2 tablespoons of kerosene. Your eyes will adjust to the light output. You don’t always need 100 W electric lightbulb to read with.
Cool vid! Thanks for doing some comparisons with the fuel. Seeing oil lamps flooded me of memories growing up at my Grandparent's log cabin. Hope this channel pops off for you🤙
Oil lamps are a fun hobby to get into. Our family would burn oil lamps on Christmas and New Years. The smell of lamp oil doesn't bother me, but even refined lamp oil generates smoke and soot. You can't necessarily see it, but it's there. It will give me some really nasty headaches. These days, I burn high grade lamp oil like Firefly or Sterno if the environment isn't ventilated. It costs more, but I don't burn lamps that often. Mostly in winter when it doesn't interfere with air conditioning.
I think it might be slightly addicting. Ever since my first oul lamp video I have been in search of affordable Aladdin lamps, I also want to get some of the other size dead flame oil lamps
@@Tibbs_Farm I'm looked into Aladdin lamps, as well. They are pretty expensive. I'd be fine with buying a reproduction Aladdin lamp. I don't need an antique. I've also had problems looking for hot blast lamps. They are much more tolerated among those who are sensitive to the smoke and soot of cheaper lamp oils. They don't burn as bright as other lamps, but they get much hotter. They would come in handy in the winter with a power failure.
I'm fairly certain the flame discrepancies are from the differing air fuel mixtures. Each fuel has it's own stoichiometric ratios, but each lamp offers the same air flow. I think you can get a bigger flame with the offroad without soot if you make the air holes bigger. I'm pretty sure it's running rich because it is not getting enough air flow. External combustion is similar to internal combustion minus the compression.
That is an interesting hypothesis. I don't know how much air flow can be changed with these dead flame lamps. But I do have a few ideas of how I MIGHT be able to increase air flow. Like, on the No.2 there is a "carburetor" that forces the air to the flame, but these don't have the same thing.... I may try modifying these in the future
Aladdin lamps are probably the best for high light output, but then there are the addicting vintage lamps and their Kormos, Odin and Matador type of burners from different makers, some more than 100 years old. With the correct chimneys they don't smell while burning kerosene.
@@Tibbs_Farm I started collecting and experimenting with lamps 40 years ago. I have dozens of all shapes , sizes and types. If I could start over, I would have an Aladdin and nothing else. They are a bit finicky, and pricey. However, they are truly worth it and perform extremely well. If you do get an Aladdin, get an older one with a "B" Style burner. Thank you and please have a nice day.
After our central heat/air went out, in the winters growing up we used a kerosene heater for several years, propane gives a similar smell, but kerosene has a lot of memories
When I was a young kid, kerosene used to be MUCH cheaper than gasoline.... and gas was less than $1. We too had a kerosene heater. I always enjoyed the smell.
Traditionally, this is the night light... people used these in the hallway and stairwell,this was to save fuel and not use the big flat wick or center draft lamps
Call them acorn lamps here. Diesel works great with cheaper lamps. Lamp oil / paraffin will freeze but burn cleaner. You should put a white piece of cardboard several inches above chimneys. You will see how bad the soot gets within a couple seconds.
Well I already have someone asking to cut with veggie oil and someone else said try to cut the diesel with some isopropyl alcohol.. I guess I will have to pick up some mineral spirits next time I go to the store. Thanks for the heads up
My neighbor uses temu for ALOT of stuff, he absolutely love temu. I only received this order from a subscriber. But my neighbor has given me some ideas for videos so I might start buying from temu.
AWESOME- keeps us posted on your transaction security payment concerns - if any?.. they got a lot of stuff, but i been worried about the $ online stuff.@@Tibbs_Farm
I have uploaded a new video. It's is another Temu video, and it is something that I purchased. It was received fast and no erroneous charges to my cards. I don't know how safe that really makes it, but it is starting to build some confidence in me with them.
Personally, I have not used sunflower oil for anything. But I can not see it being all too different than many other vegetable based oils. Alot of times they have a difficulty wicking up the wick and would have a smaller flame, somewhat like the diesel vs the kerosene. As far as exploding, it shouldn't explode using it in one of these lamps.
Use Klean Heat. No odor, wicks extremely well, and it has the correct flash point. With those little bitty lamps, a gallon would last you a looong time. That lamp oil, BTW, is junk. General lamp wisdom - you have to let the wicks soak for a half-hour before you light them when they have been dry, (either new wick or empty font) and the lamps (burners and chimneys) need to warm up 15-20 minutes to burn optimally. That dyed diesel is probably not wicking well, and the crappy dye will gum up your wick.
Where i am, many gas stations have a pump off to the side for off-road. So it isn't completely a farm thing. And, at this point. The only difference in off-road and on-highway is the tax and the dye. Both are limited to less than 15ppm sulfur content.
gosh darn "3/16 inch", if it's a chinesium rope, it's probably metric, and never was 3/16, so no conversion necessary to metric, because it's most likely 5 mm, and you-all just measured with some Yankee measurin' thing ....
Well, it is chinesium, so it might actually be neither 3/16 nor 5mm, but something somewhere in the middle. Tibbs Farm is located south of Mason Dixon, but I will try to forgive you for the Yankee comment.
@Texasprepper kerosene does have a very distinct smell. But 'stink' is personal opinion. Growing up with a kerosene heater, the smell sparks fond memories. But for some, sure they may think it stinks.
@@Tibbs_Farm Yes but I don’t understand why you don’t use good quality oil that’s customized for these lamps? They don’t smell, doesnt produce toxic chemicals, it’s safe, has a high flash point. The normal use would be lamp oil based on pure N-paraffin.
Sorry, to point out the "doesn't produce toxic chemicals" but technically anything that burns [except for hydrogen and oxygen] is going to producing "toxic chemicals". And if you watched his other video he did say that the smell between the lamp oil and the green diesel was just about the same. And he also explained in that video why he would try the different fuel, price. Something like $20/gal vs $4/gal.
I would if I could. Fortunately, I don't have neighbors close by, and that dog stays outside. He is an Okay Pyrenees, and I couldn't bring him inside if I wanted to.
