I use oil lamps a lot, and love that you are teaching this to those who may need it some day. I have found that a larger container can be filled mostly with water, then about 3/4" oil, and soak the string, then insert it. This absolutely prevents any fire starting if the container is breached or knocked over. With 5 cats in my house, or camping outside in wind and rain, this is the perfect set up!
The idea is a good one. BUT...you deserve the prize for pouring oil FROM a 1 inch hole INTO a 1/8 inch hole without spilling a drop. Way to go, man. Stay safe, and keep breathin'.
My grandma prepared it and using it daily after the sunset. Nice remember because of you. Nowadays so many people don't know.. Thanks for teaching for this generation.
Love this. Mom is an old school Greek woman. She has her little Jesus mantle in the corner of the wall in the room. Same idea... has a little glass bowl filled with salt about 3/4 full. She has this little tin covered cork float with a hole in the middle like you made with the finishing nail and you pull the wick up through. Simply place it in the bowl with about 1/2" of olive oil in it and it floats on the surface like a bobber. Light it up and it burns for a good couple of days. The salt keeps it from burning all of the way down and self extinguishes when empty. Pretty cool. Thank you once again.
An advantage of using vegetable oils rather than lamp oils is that if the lamp is knocked over, the vegetable oils are not as highly flammable as the lamp oil.
Love this video. Especially the small candle...have been shocked because I have never heard or seen anyone doing candles like this before. I use to make the candle wax kind years ago....and that's all I knew until about an hour ago....whda knew?? Thanks again!
I have never seen a man work with such tiny objeçts with his hands then you mentioned you don't need a big long wick & childishly I was on the floor rolling with laughter.
The point of using the nail polish bottle is how shallow it is. Vegetable oil is much thicker than petroleum, and will not soak up more than an inch of wick at most. Ancient oil lamps were like covered saucers, wide and very flat.
Good, informative video. I have made several of these. I have found a better container to use. A one shot liquor bottle with a metallic screw-on lid works wonderfly. ( Sometimes called an Airplane Bottle .)
I made one but used a mason jar, and used acetone- lasted much longer, the wind was 14 mph and it didn't blow out, and wow I love it. Make sure with acetone you use in the open and not in a closed room!
Great video. I remember back in the 80's when MRE Tabasco bottles were first included and I started making small candles using those bottles. I made them the with candle wick with a thin wire inner support, probably lead back then. haha I like the MRE bottle because I can put the cap back on with the wick inside and when I open the cap, the wick pops out. Like you, I use foil to limit the flame to 1/2" and that will give me about 70 minutes of fire. I figure 60 minutes of burn time for every 1/8th ounce of liquid fuel. I keep these in Altoids tin, BUT I have learned that you should dip the caps in wax like the old iodine water tablet bottles the military had, because I have had ONE come loose and leak oil into the tin. My brother even keeps one on his key chain that he has inside a rubber latex type tube of some kind. I really enjoy these type of videos and how to's. Keep up the great work.
yes in the 80s we used anything, I used an old teapot put the wick in the spout but i wrapped the foil round the wick like a sleeve and used old oil, it smelt but was handy when low on money lol
@Lemon Lee You'd really have a problem with smudge pots which are 5 gallon metal buckets of diesel fuel placed throughout freezing crop fields & ignited to keep the crops from being frostbitten or frozen.
You have a very steady hand pouring that oil, my friend. I would think that a compact candle like that would be considered portable. Did you remove the brush from the lid and cap the bottle to transport it? If it would seal and not leak, it would be a nice little camping/ backpacking candle. Thanks for sharing.
I do the same thing with Walmart spice jars next time you go to Walmart go down the spice aisle and look for the Walmart brand of organic spices( clear glass about 2in tall holds 1.8 Oz) and they come in little jars with a metal lid and they are just perfect for making these and the lamp will easily last all night Just make sure in the top of the lid to punch a tiny hole with a push pin so that you don't build up vapor pressure inside the glass jar or else the wick will burn much more furiously than is necessary
Zip Zenac when the grid goes down you will be wishing you knew more than turning on your light switch. Zip it! Unless you have something positive to share 💛
I too shall search my daughter's bathroom for fingernail polish bottles, will use the wife and mother in-laws collection too. this lighting will be usefull when they find out and kick my rump into the backyard doghouse ! stuff can go for 5 a bottle, but I like the video thanks!
If you wet the tip of the wick after you insert it in the bottle. The oil will then instantly soak the whole wick. It makes the oil rise up to the tip faster, just damp the tip now don't go soaking it.
@@athomas2k8 the main body of oil must only be at maximum of 2 inches away from the flame. The closer the better. Dont worry the flame wont ignite the veg oil. Also using cotton like those in swabs or cotton balls works better at wicking than string wicks.
@@graceoverreligion2509 I bought a length of wicking from the craft store and used vegetable oil. The results were totally disappointing as the lamp, which is a used jar, simply will not stay lit..... Vegetable oil has not given me any results sadly.
@@henryottis295 same. Cotton wrapped matchstick works best for me. I just peel the cotton and wrap it unto the matchstick and hang the matchstick to a diy stand (those spring looking wick stand you make from a craft wire).
Nice and you could add a drop or 2 of Lavender essential oil and make it smell good maybe guess I'll try it and see I make soap haven't bought bath soap in 10yrs can convert to laundry soap it's always good to know how to make your own products. Everyone should have a couple months of supplies stored up just incase, water tablets stuff like that. Be prepared dried goods ect
I like prepped, survival, and apocalyptic survival ideas from Sci-fi to real life so it started with one video I shared and received this video shard back. I keep an eye out for other survival ideas like that you may have. Thanks for sharing! Hope you don't mind if I share this idea with a reference to your video on my own one day. 🤗❤️👍🏾💯
Thank you for producing this excellent tutorial, making an economical, oil burning lantern which will fit the UCO Candle Lanterns is something that I'd like to do due to the very high cost of their replacement candles here in the UK. Being able to add something like Ylang Ylang oil to the olive oil should give off a lovely scent (any oil can be added, whichever scent the maker chooses).
You did a beautiful job of pouring that oil into a very small opening. For myself, I think I'd put some oil in a small pitcher for filling the bottle. Thank you for mentioning not to make the aluminum foil too thick. I probably would have done that thinking more is better. Clearly not the case.
Ohhh! My gosh!!! Such a very informative tools to save electricity I’ve love to learn anything recycle from the old time as a mini lantern as this very interesting economical techniques thank you so much for your valuable inspirational ideas!!!!💕👏🏼💕👏🏼💕💚💚💚
just got a similar idea with no cleaning needed. In my spice drawer I found a glass bottle with metal lid of organic rosemary. Why not use that and puncture the metal lid..no aluminum foil needed....and it's a little bit larger...would last longer.
Great idea I have some in my cabinet as well. I decided to keep my empty spice jars I felt like I could use them for something. You hit the nail on the head😂 awesome idea. Have a peaceful and blessed day 💕 and rest of week 🤗🙏🏾
I have played with some oil candles but never anything this small. I think it would make a great traveling light & heat source if you could seal it up. The one thing I will add is that the veggie oil's performance does degrade as the temp drops. My theory is that the oil thickens as the temp drops and then it is much slower to wick up the string resulting in a smaller flame that can be a struggle to keep lit. I'm going to keep an eye out for some tiny bottles like this and add this to my emergency list.
Your theory is correct. I tried using oil candle but it would burn off the wick because the oil would be almost solidified. Have been using hydrogenated vegetable oil candle or as people call it crisco candle. The wick goes down with the melt pool and there is enough heat to melt it all so there is a good flow of liquid fuel
very simple ,he is borned to be a teacher.he explained,slowly willing to transmete his knowledge..bravissimo friend. regards from an old greek. i know your father leonardo da vinci......
Hi!, I think hi need a wider bottle, shallower container, and a thicker wick. Bring the oil up cl,oser to the bottom of the wick in its holder. you want a wider flame for a brighter flame. I'm sorry to say that even a tea candle would be brighter! Anybody makes pottery in your family? Throw an 8oz. piece of clay on the wheel and make a shallow dish no deeper that 1", bend the sides in and seal them together leaving a 1/4" hole for your rolled holy T shirt wick. Fire the bowl you just made with whatever colors and patterns you like. When cool, insert your wick and use the cheapest veggie oil you can find - fill from the other end you left open opposite your wick, draw the wick 1/4" up and wait for one hour for the wick to soak the veggie oil up. Light and enjoy! This is something the potter in your family can throw and make many of (I would suggest a dozen of them 4" wide and 1" deep). You may not be able to read a book with just one, but three may work for reading. I have found that the oil burns clean and if it spills, you won't have a major fire hazard as there is only about 2oz of oil in the bowl. Also, they are fun to make, bring one back to your pottery class and astonish everybody! And, they cost very little to make! Always keep the bowl shallow because less is more in this case. You can experiment with Larger diameters, shapes, and thicker wicks for brighter lights. You can use red or grey clays, different designs on the clay, different colored glazes, chips of different colored glass in the clay. I "borrowed" this idea from another RUclipsr, and elaborated on it trying it out on my own making an old design thousand of years old. They work!
Hmm, a few gallons of veg oil and a roll of cotton yarn and you could have emergency lighting for quite a while. Of course, I prefer a little more light and just stick with kerosene lamps (biggest has a massive wick). These would be nice though if you find yourself out and about and there is a power outage due to some blizzard or something. Pretty easy to find veg oil and cotton and containers.
Good, and here are some tips for Safely Fueling: You should never use mineral oil, rubbing alcohol, or pure gasoline as fuel. These materials can pose serious health hazards from vapors and aromatics that are released when they are burned. Improper use of fuel can lead to respiratory illnesses, fire, or explosion. You should also never use acetone, propane, turpentine, household cleaners, or other highly ignitable substances to fill your oil reservoir.
Watched the video.. this is probably the easiest oil lamp making I've ever seen and it's the cutest little thing..I feel I can make one maybe I can make one for me and one for my daughter she has a young child..it seems safer than the big candles she has
Thank you for sharing this awesome cool video .haha! my favorite nail polish evergreen lol. now i know . I have a lot of these nail polish bottles. I can recycle
How long is "quite awhile" ? Can we expect 1/2 hour burning time for this size lamp? An hour? This was an excellent project. I have been looking at something similar online for a very hefty price. Thanks!
Good idea. I would use a darning needle to thread the cotton through aluminum and I would use aluminium can piece rather than foil but yes this is great. Shalom
I used to burn the cologne everyone gave me for Christmas in my kerosene lantern. Used it everyday since I had no electricity. Cologne burns well and has a scent too.
If you take a Prescription Bottle you could pre-make a few wicks & Foil. This would give you a container to store them for replacing the wick. Then you could replace the Polish Bottle Cap so you could have them "Pre-Loaded" with Oil and you'd just need to install the wick & foil.
I use oil lamps a lot, and love that you are teaching this to those who may need it some day. I have found that a larger container can be filled mostly with water, then about 3/4" oil, and soak the string, then insert it. This absolutely prevents any fire starting if the container is breached or knocked over. With 5 cats in my house, or camping outside in wind and rain, this is the perfect set up!
The idea is a good one. BUT...you deserve the prize for pouring oil FROM a 1 inch hole INTO a 1/8 inch hole without spilling a drop. Way to go, man. Stay safe, and keep breathin'.
My grandma prepared it and using it daily after the sunset. Nice remember because of you. Nowadays so many people don't know.. Thanks for teaching for this generation.
Love this. Mom is an old school Greek woman. She has her little Jesus mantle in the corner of the wall in the room. Same idea... has a little glass bowl filled with salt about 3/4 full. She has this little tin covered cork float with a hole in the middle like you made with the finishing nail and you pull the wick up through. Simply place it in the bowl with about 1/2" of olive oil in it and it floats on the surface like a bobber. Light it up and it burns for a good couple of days. The salt keeps it from burning all of the way down and self extinguishes when empty. Pretty cool. Thank you once again.
thank you for sharing!
Finding this hard to visualise. Doesn’t the salt dissolve in the oil ?
Imma use that for my prayer corner too, Thank you.
@@roseskyschmolesky
I am wondering the same as well
An advantage of using vegetable oils rather than lamp oils is that if the lamp is knocked over, the vegetable oils are not as highly flammable as the lamp oil.
True. The flame actually dies if it gets flooded with oil.
@Slimm Jimm Lol what? Sunflower oil does have a flashpoint of 270°C to 300°C while petroleum is at about 55°C to 70°C.
I'll just buy whichever one is cheaper....but I always have vegetable oil in case I need to make a extra candle when the power goes out 😁
Tiny Molotov cocktails!
Can someone give some uses for a candle this small, I have a LOT of nail polish bottles!
I don't know how I found this video but I'm so glad I did. I now know what to do with all my empty nail polish bottles. 🤣 Thank you
Riiiiggghhhtttt and I have been tossing mine is n the trash 🤦🏾well when you know better you do better. I will be saving them for now on.
I know what you can do with your nail Polish bottles Emma. Give them to me lol 😁. After all we might be related.
For real! I'm a nail tech. The empty polish bottles are taking over! 🤣
I know, I've been making waterproof matches with clear nail varnish. I've saved 4 empty bottles already.
I'll make 4 of these, and gift 2 to some female prepper friends.
Thank you - recycled, pretty and effective, a modern take on a lamp that's been used for thousands of years :)
Nice to see someone actually putting vegetables to good use, for the first in their existence.
AWESOME!!! I just watched a lady use a crisco jar to make a 72 DAY candle!!
Me too!!!!! lol
So did I, the day before yesterday ;)
Seen it too
Me, too! Haha
😀 me too!
Never thought of portable, refilible containers for a candle, Thank you! This inspires an idea for my jank lighter!
Love this video. Especially the small candle...have been shocked because I have never heard or seen anyone doing candles like this before. I use to make the candle wax kind years ago....and that's all I knew until about an hour ago....whda knew?? Thanks again!
Great idea. This is from Florida where hurricanes and storms guarantee power outages routinely. I'd use wider bottles and make a few ahead of time.
Me too. Baby food jars would work great I bet!
I have never seen a man work with such tiny objeçts with his hands then you mentioned you don't need a big long wick & childishly I was on the floor rolling with laughter.
Great! I have made lots of lamps like this over the years. Bacon grease works too sometimes with just a wick in the open grease
Waste of bacon grease.😏
The point of using the nail polish bottle is how shallow it is. Vegetable oil is much thicker than petroleum, and will not soak up more than an inch of wick at most. Ancient oil lamps were like covered saucers, wide and very flat.
A wire bread tie around the aluminum on the bottle neck could be good.
Good, informative video. I have made several of these. I have found a better container to use. A one shot liquor bottle with a metallic screw-on lid works wonderfly. ( Sometimes called an Airplane Bottle .)
Yeah it's nice when those are made of glass! Sometimes now they're made of plastic unfortunately.
Going to try this
Small Fruit Jars Work Great As Well,and About 3-4 Ounces..Last Forever
Does the shape matter?
If u use a shot bottle just make sure the bottle is GLASS ONLY.
That's pretty cool! My youngest daughter loves anything miniature. This would be right up her alley!
Excellent!
Oh my gosh! I'm obsessed with miniatures!!! Does she have some pretty cute things?
I made one but used a mason jar, and used acetone- lasted much longer, the wind was 14 mph and it didn't blow out, and wow I love it. Make sure with acetone you use in the open and not in a closed room!
Great video. I remember back in the 80's when MRE Tabasco bottles were first included and I started making small candles using those bottles. I made them the with candle wick with a thin wire inner support, probably lead back then. haha
I like the MRE bottle because I can put the cap back on with the wick inside and when I open the cap, the wick pops out. Like you, I use foil to limit the flame to 1/2" and that will give me about 70 minutes of fire. I figure 60 minutes of burn time for every 1/8th ounce of liquid fuel.
I keep these in Altoids tin, BUT I have learned that you should dip the caps in wax like the old iodine water tablet bottles the military had, because I have had ONE come loose and leak oil into the tin.
My brother even keeps one on his key chain that he has inside a rubber latex type tube of some kind. I really enjoy these type of videos and how to's. Keep up the great work.
+wjf213 I live those little Tabasco bottles
I like Tabasco on my eggs
yes in the 80s we used anything, I used an old teapot put the wick in the spout but i wrapped the foil round the wick like a sleeve and used old oil, it smelt but was handy when low on money lol
Very well presented and now i can recycle all those glass bottles i use to throw away by making oil candles🤗
I'd like to see how you washed out that little bottle.
Jacob Opstad I just use some dish soap with hot water and a Q-tip
Ohh, a Q-tip! Of course! :)
@Lemon Lee You'd really have a problem with smudge pots which are 5 gallon metal buckets of diesel fuel placed throughout freezing crop fields & ignited to keep the crops from being frostbitten or frozen.
Nail polish remover then wash , maybe
Jacob Opstad
Uhhhhh, nail polish remover 🤷🏻♀️
Very nice candle . I can use this candle in worship no need to buy long candles
A brilliant idea and never seen this before. I better start making some before we have predicted power cuts.
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You have a very steady hand pouring that oil, my friend. I would think that a compact candle like that would be considered portable. Did you remove the brush from the lid and cap the bottle to transport it? If it would seal and not leak, it would be a nice little camping/ backpacking candle. Thanks for sharing.
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I save jars all the time, never knowing what to do with most of them....Now I know 😁👍😁 I'd definitely make a few for power outages 😁😁😁
Thanks! I have a million empty essential oil candles. Perfect use for one. Thanks, great video!
Awesome video. Thank you so much. I’m going to try this candle. In the North, we get blizzards, and when the power goes out, it’s really dark.
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I do the same thing with Walmart spice jars next time you go to Walmart go down the spice aisle and look for the Walmart brand of organic spices( clear glass about 2in tall holds 1.8 Oz) and they come in little jars with a metal lid and they are just perfect for making these and the lamp will easily last all night
Just make sure in the top of the lid to punch a tiny hole with a push pin so that you don't build up vapor pressure inside the glass jar or else the wick will burn much more furiously than is necessary
that is a darn cute candle
In my country they've had lamps like this for over 600 years
In ours too😊
Zip Zenac when the grid goes down you will be wishing you knew more than turning on your light switch. Zip it! Unless you have something positive to share 💛
@@nodigBKMiche I second this
@Zip Zenac One day sore. You can not stop progress.
@Dion St. Michael Thank you. Your observation is wise. GOD bless & have a great day!
I too shall search my daughter's bathroom for fingernail polish bottles, will use the wife and mother in-laws collection too. this lighting will be usefull when they find out and kick my rump into the backyard doghouse ! stuff can go for 5 a bottle, but I like the video thanks!
If you wet the tip of the wick after you insert it in the bottle. The oil will then instantly soak the whole wick. It makes the oil rise up to the tip faster, just damp the tip now don't go soaking it.
Really? Wet the tip and it brings the oil up? I believe u ....just making sure
Why does my olive oil lamp burn the wick so fast and flame is really low
@@athomas2k8 the main body of oil must only be at maximum of 2 inches away from the flame. The closer the better. Dont worry the flame wont ignite the veg oil.
Also using cotton like those in swabs or cotton balls works better at wicking than string wicks.
@@graceoverreligion2509
I bought a length of wicking from the craft store and used vegetable oil.
The results were totally disappointing as the lamp, which is a used jar, simply will not stay lit.....
Vegetable oil has not given me any results sadly.
@@henryottis295 same. Cotton wrapped matchstick works best for me.
I just peel the cotton and wrap it unto the matchstick and hang the matchstick to a diy stand (those spring looking wick stand you make from a craft wire).
"Dad, have you seen my green nail polish?...why is it so dark in here?"
ha ha. Thank you for stopping by!
She prob didn't need that color polish. It's not en vouge right now. Lol
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I just choked on my spit reading that comment lmao.
Thank you for this survival technique.
Nice and you could add a drop or 2 of Lavender essential oil and make it smell good maybe guess I'll try it and see I make soap haven't bought bath soap in 10yrs can convert to laundry soap it's always good to know how to make your own products. Everyone should have a couple months of supplies stored up just incase, water tablets stuff like that. Be prepared dried goods ect
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! let there be light,
thanks for this video and your simple and clear explaination
I like prepped, survival, and apocalyptic survival ideas from Sci-fi to real life so it started with one video I shared and received this video shard back. I keep an eye out for other survival ideas like that you may have. Thanks for sharing! Hope you don't mind if I share this idea with a reference to your video on my own one day. 🤗❤️👍🏾💯
good way to re-cycle those polish bottles
Thank you for producing this excellent tutorial, making an economical, oil burning lantern which will fit the UCO Candle Lanterns is something that I'd like to do due to the very high cost of their replacement candles here in the UK.
Being able to add something like Ylang Ylang oil to the olive oil should give off a lovely scent (any oil can be added, whichever scent the maker chooses).
Thanks! Shall buy Ylang Ylang oil!
@@pjmnash That's my favourite essential oil.
i love people like you
Thank you!
This is so cool. I have some pretty little bottles, just knew they'd be good for something!
You did a beautiful job of pouring that oil into a very small opening. For myself, I think I'd put some oil in a small pitcher for filling the bottle. Thank you for mentioning not to make the aluminum foil too thick. I probably would have done that thinking more is better. Clearly not the case.
there's a great invention just out. It's called a funnel, lol. Yes there are mini funnels too.
@@funigurl72 You're right, and I have some of those mini funnels. Strange I didn't think of that. Thanks for the heads up.
I thought at first that he was going to make a mini funnel with the foil. Nope. But maybe I'll do that.
You can use regular cotton and turn it into a wick by rolling it. It feeds oil much better than wicks.
Wow everything is recyclable!
Awsome bro! This goes directly to my prepper notebook for Apocalypse
Nice oil pouring skills!
Ohhh! My gosh!!! Such a very informative tools to save electricity I’ve love to learn anything recycle from the old time as a mini lantern as this very interesting economical techniques thank you so much for your valuable inspirational ideas!!!!💕👏🏼💕👏🏼💕💚💚💚
What a fantastic idea. Well I'm off to make one right now. Thanks mate nice one.
Wow thank you so much! What a nice thing to know God 🙏 bless you brother
Thank you, God bless you and your family 👪
just got a similar idea with no cleaning needed. In my spice drawer I found a glass bottle with metal lid of organic rosemary. Why not use that and puncture the metal lid..no aluminum foil needed....and it's a little bit larger...would last longer.
Great idea I have some in my cabinet as well. I decided to keep my empty spice jars I felt like I could use them for something. You hit the nail on the head😂 awesome idea. Have a peaceful and blessed day 💕 and rest of week 🤗🙏🏾
I have played with some oil candles but never anything this small. I think it would make a great traveling light & heat source if you could seal it up. The one thing I will add is that the veggie oil's performance does degrade as the temp drops. My theory is that the oil thickens as the temp drops and then it is much slower to wick up the string resulting in a smaller flame that can be a struggle to keep lit. I'm going to keep an eye out for some tiny bottles like this and add this to my emergency list.
Your theory is correct. I tried using oil candle but it would burn off the wick because the oil would be almost solidified. Have been using hydrogenated vegetable oil candle or as people call it crisco candle. The wick goes down with the melt pool and there is enough heat to melt it all so there is a good flow of liquid fuel
@@scientistharsh not all oils get solidified... 🤔 Use sunflower oil, f ex...
Dilute the oil with some kerosene for cold weather climates.
@@ebikecnx7239 our government has practically banned people from getting hold of kerosene
I got like 30 tiny bottles--even with corks--on Amazon, for roughly $12 I think. Free shipping...
That’s awesome! Will remember this trick
Thanks for shedding some light on the dark winter nights
So many minute things about small candle.Thank u so much.
Be sure to keep the bottle cap so you can use it to store the candle when not in use. I would keep extra wicks handy as well.
Thank you! how cool, I'll have to ake a couple. Living off grid. Thank you again
Use a small gauge crochet hook to pull the wick through the foil. Works great.
I'm thinking it would be a good idea to save the screw-on lid for transport... Cheers
This is very neat! Awesome! We used to do in girl scout camping but with salt underneath
What does the salt do?
@@hewakens I think it would prevent a fire if the bottle spilt. I'm thinking the oil would be absorbed by the salt...
A drop of superglue on the bottom of the string makes it easier to thread thru a skinny hole much like melting the end of paracord.
That's awesome .. so cute and small haha thanks for sharing I totally love this
very simple ,he is borned to be a teacher.he explained,slowly willing to transmete his knowledge..bravissimo friend. regards from an old greek. i know your father leonardo da vinci......
U "light"up my life.excellent tips.thank you
Hi!,
I think hi need a wider bottle, shallower container, and a thicker wick. Bring the oil up cl,oser to the bottom of the wick in its holder. you want a wider flame for a brighter flame. I'm sorry to say that even a tea candle would be brighter! Anybody makes pottery in your family? Throw an 8oz. piece of clay on the wheel and make a shallow dish no deeper that 1", bend the sides in and seal them together leaving a 1/4" hole for your rolled holy T shirt wick. Fire the bowl you just made with whatever colors and patterns you like. When cool, insert your wick and use the cheapest veggie oil you can find - fill from the other end you left open opposite your wick, draw the wick 1/4" up and wait for one hour for the wick to soak the veggie oil up. Light and enjoy! This is something the potter in your family can throw and make many of (I would suggest a dozen of them 4" wide and 1" deep). You may not be able to read a book with just one, but three may work for reading. I have found that the oil burns clean and if it spills, you won't have a major fire hazard as there is only about 2oz of oil in the bowl. Also, they are fun to make, bring one back to your pottery class and astonish everybody! And, they cost very little to make! Always keep the bowl shallow because less is more in this case. You can experiment with Larger diameters, shapes, and thicker wicks for brighter lights. You can use red or grey clays, different designs on the clay, different colored glazes, chips of different colored glass in the clay. I "borrowed" this idea from another RUclipsr, and elaborated on it trying it out on my own making an old design thousand of years old. They work!
and a little girl cries as she can't find her favorite nail polish.....
+Marcus Octavian ha ha. I tried to deny it, but then she saw my green toenails. LOL
And, what you have done with the pink one? 🙅
😂😂 cutest father !!!!
Marcus Octavian yes but she'll have light in darkness and that beats colored nails all night long
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hmm, a few gallons of veg oil and a roll of cotton yarn and you could have emergency lighting for quite a while. Of course, I prefer a little more light and just stick with kerosene lamps (biggest has a massive wick). These would be nice though if you find yourself out and about and there is a power outage due to some blizzard or something. Pretty easy to find veg oil and cotton and containers.
I liked and subbed can't believe I never thought of this.
Really good use for cooking oils that have gone rancid. You can also add a few drops of essential oil to sweeten it up. Great video!
Thanks you Brother - awesome idea.
Best tutorial ever. TY
You're welcome!
Good tutorial brother, thanks for posting.
What a great idea! I'm haemoraging ideas, need to find a fancy bottle to make some lights.
Ciao,
Grazie per questa tua "piccola" ma utilissima idea!
Lascio un cordiale saluto e.. Buon Anno 2022.
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Good, and here are some tips for Safely Fueling:
You should never use mineral oil, rubbing alcohol, or pure gasoline as fuel. These materials can pose serious health hazards from vapors and aromatics that are released when they are burned. Improper use of fuel can lead to respiratory illnesses, fire, or explosion. You should also never use acetone, propane, turpentine, household cleaners, or other highly ignitable substances to fill your oil reservoir.
Thank you, that's simple and works.
Watched the video.. this is probably the easiest oil lamp making I've ever seen and it's the cutest little thing..I feel I can make one maybe I can make one for me and one for my daughter she has a young child..it seems safer than the big candles she has
Excellent comment, thank you for the kind words. These are great as long as they don't tip over
OK, use your pointer to facilitate that move. This guys a crack up. Thanks for cheering up my Virus Separation.
I like the fact that you use a tiny bottle, is so cute.
That lil candle is good for heating up resin clogged pipe screens. It's a good way to keep them clean.
Thank you for sharing this awesome cool video .haha! my favorite nail polish evergreen lol. now i know . I have a lot of these nail polish bottles. I can recycle
How long is "quite awhile" ? Can we expect 1/2 hour burning time for this size lamp? An hour? This was an excellent project. I have been looking at something similar online for a very hefty price. Thanks!
These last several hours. Thank you!
Good idea. I would use a darning needle to thread the cotton through aluminum and I would use aluminium can piece rather than foil but yes this is great. Shalom
a great idea to use a nail polish bottle
Super cute!!! I have so many old polish bottles ♥
a small syringe, like you can find at most any hobby shop, make filling those tiny bottles easy
I used to burn the cologne everyone gave me for Christmas in my kerosene lantern. Used it everyday since I had no electricity. Cologne burns well and has a scent too.
I love this idea! Thanks!
Just love the lead bars in back ground. Great video and pleasure watching your videos, thank you!
Cool! Now I'll have a use to repurpose my own two daughters nail polish bottles when they run out!
Very well done 👏
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Great vid, useful info...thank you☺
Thank you!
If you take a Prescription Bottle you could pre-make a few wicks & Foil. This would give you a container to store them for replacing the wick. Then you could replace the Polish Bottle Cap so you could have them "Pre-Loaded" with Oil and you'd just need to install the wick & foil.
Great video. I've never thought of this but it's really good information to know
very instructive. Thank you very much Tom.
+enrique almada bistiancic Thank you!
I wonder will this make my little room smell like mcdonalds?
no, its very clean burning:)
very nice job ! Is there a risk that the top of the glass bottle cracks due to the heat ?
Thank you! I've never had one break,but you never know!
Maybe as wider the cup is, as better. And of course, as flat as possible. Just think of the old greek/arabic oil lamps.
Switch to cotton pipe cleaners for wicks, you'll never look back!
Thank You for the info. Good job.