Glass Oil Wick "The Capillary Candle" (Secrets Revealed)
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2021
- Call me Prometheus ✋🔥🤚, because it's time to learn a secret flame: The Capillary Candle. This Glass Wick burns Lamp Oil using capillary action and does not need replaced! It burns as little as 1g of oil per hour. I've held onto this design for several years, but after an increasing number of requests I wanted to make it publicly available. Make your own, but be careful! Fire can destroy as well as create.
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again…. I don’t know why you don’t have many many more followers. Great concept, design and execution Matt!
Thank you Linda! It does help to know you and others want this channel to grow. It is discouraging when I don't see the growth I was hoping for, but I know it's important to appreciate how far I've come already. If I just keep being my authentic self, then this channel won't lose what makes it special. 🔥❤️
only your mind could come up with this. awsome work and awsome contrabution to the community .
love your work mate
very impressive. You have more different ideas with glass than anyone I've have seen. Made your spinning tops for my grand kids. Thanks for posting.
Your welcome Robert, glad I could help. It's nice to hear about the spinning tops, I hope they enjoy them.
How odd! I swear, just this morning I was wondering when you were going to post again! I've been missing your videos. I love your work, but you already know that 😍
Very strange. I've had odd things like that happen plenty of times. Could be coincidence, or maybe something supernatural?
What a fantastic idea! I may very well try this. Thank you! Also, rest in power Dennis Jasa!
Cant wait for more of this i have been looking at oil lamps and this is so cool and pleasing seeing those grape sized lamps
Awww man as a candle maker and someone who's about to get back into glass blowing. Man this video is probably one of my favorite vids on the tube.
I highly enjoyed watching this
Thanks for the vid
Thank you! This may be my Opus Magnum (my greatest work).
@@MattJasa you ever think about using defuser base and fragrance oil? It should work on the same concept but no flame and you'll have fragrance
You'll be making a glass reed defuser aka flameless candles
thanks for this one! I will surely try it out!
thanks so much!!! just made my day right there, this knowledge is gold!
Hey Steven, glad it was helpful!
Hey, to increase the efficiency of your composite candles. You could have some false tubing that has open ends to atmosphere away from the oil, thus giving air a way into the core of the flame.
Thanks for watching and for the suggestion. I haven't tried changing the design yet, rather worked on the producing them more effectively. I'll keep this idea in mind when I work on them again. I do have some ideas for new vessels, but am looking for ways to improve the wick.
Thank you for this great idea! I think I will try to make one just for fun.
What a great idea, i would love to see more
Thanks Ray, I've got some more ideas planned. Check out Thermo Expando - ruclips.net/video/iwCMU_zmP8o/видео.html to see it in use.
Always enjoyable to see another post man!
Thanks for staying subscribed over the years.
@@MattJasa I'm surprised you remember me!
Very cool results and neat concept. I think a similar design for a glass pen would be a viable application for the capillary action.
I kid you not I also had the identical idea to make an oil lamp using capillary action and no wick. And then this video pops up. I was thinking of using blunt metal needles, but I wonder if glass simply works better
wow.... glass wick... nice. and very nice job.
Thank you, they've been very useful.
Thank you.
Genius...
Also if any one of you would like to try this but don't have the skills or equipment to blow glass right now, I'm studying as a nurse and there are these little glass tubes you can buy called microhematocrit tubes which use capillary action to draw up blood to separate the blood cells from the plasma using a centrifuge
I wonder if using a smaller number of wicks would have a better outcome in the final experiment? Maybe a dozen or so instead of 50? More surface area for the wicks to access oxygen, while still having enough of them to produce a sizable flame without overcrowding them.
Anyway, they're amazing little lamps, and the 110 you did in the last vid are incredibly pretty when all lit together :-)
Your definitely right. I wanted to see how far I could take it with so many wicks. They act almost like one giant wick. I'll be doing some more experiments with it. Thanks for watching!
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So sick
I don't think this is the first time this idea has been done. I seem to recall this idea being mentioned in a book from the 1800's.
Hello Amethyst8teen. I don't know if it has been done before, I know its new to me. I just hope I documented it well enough for others to use and recreate.
In this youtube video a 0.4mm capillary tube will raise water 5.5cm. A 0.6mm capillary tube 3cm.
Experiment on Capillary Action or Capillarity using Capillary Tube
I was thinking of trying the same basic idea for some use in another experiment. Alcohol is probably not quite as good as water for climbing but as you can see diameter can be played with if you want more height, like you did by putting a tube within a tube. I've sleeved capillary tubes inside another as well. Ebay has many choices in size and length.
glass is funny like that. not like other arts. its the bic lighter of art. if you get some tech down its yours now lols. dope candles. i just cut flat wick to size for my small oil lamps. genie style
Since the fuel is carried in the space between the interior and exterior tubes, does the smaller one need to be a tube or can you make a stringer from solid rod?
That's a great question, I found a solid rod/stringer in the middle does work as well. I'm not sure how it fully compares without doing more testing.
If you are able to could you help me with something?(if you do custom projects that is)
But, like with cotton wick, the question is: how long this glass wick works without obstructing its micro-holes by glass slowly melted by the flame?
Second question: is it totally atoxic?? Because about 5 or 6 years ago i tried with a commercial glass fibers wick and cooking oil, the results were no bad but after some hours of use i had a stitch on my right belly side (i think: for intestinal irritation), more than one time, so i abandoned glass for paper or cotton wick: it's without problems but it's no more good after 15-20 hours of use (with cooking oil).
I tried also metal sponges as wick for alcool lamp but with a very bad results. I don't remember if i tried it with cooking oil. I should try...
I imagine that the oil in your video is kerosene or mineral distilled oil for lamps.
In every case, your all glass oil lamps are splendid! Unique! Bravo!
Good questions. From the testing I've done the wicks don't melt but does collect a small amount of soot. The soot doesn't seem to cause any trouble and can be cleaned with a small brush.
Being just glass I would assume it wouldn't be toxic. Sorry I don't understand what you're doing with the lamp to get intestinal irritation, are you cooking food with it? Cooking oil and lamp oil won't burn as clean as natural gas or propane. I'm not sure if the capillary candle can burn cooking oil. I should test it out to make sure.
Thank you, thank you. The oil lamp has been a bright inspiration for me.
@@MattJasa Okay, so you will try your glass micro-pipe for cooking oil lamp, did i well understand? But you must put the glass pipe in a cork floating upon the oil and protected (the cork) by aluminium foil; this is beacause the natural oil cannot climb more than 2-3 cm, contrary to kerosene which climbs 10 or more centimeters. Then, you'll tell me your results, please.
Why do you not sell your glass pipe wick?? I would buy some...
@@pratoarancione7646 Thanks for the additional info. For the wicks, honestly, I'm afraid of the legal repercussions of someone setting their house on fire. The basic design of the vessel so far does not protect against getting knocked over, the flame will stay lit like a normal candle. I could sell them without a vessel, but I'm still in the process of opening my online store.
@@pratoarancione7646 I did a quick test by replacing the lamp oil with cooking oil (corn). The liquid does make it to the top of the wick however it won't stay lit. If I tilt the wick sideways it heats the wick more and a flame will continue to burn. I'm sorry I didn't include the cork or foil. But it looks like with a higher flash point the cooking oil is having trouble burning as easily. In theory using both cooking oil and lamp oil side by side should work as the lamp oil wick can warm the cooking oil wick, allowing it to reach flash point more easily.
@@MattJasa Very intersting, can you show the video of the cooking oil glass wick burning, please? I'm so curious.
RUclips showed me that you have another RUclips channel but i'm not founding it any more, can you tell me its name, please? Because there is a video about glass tube wick that i would like to see.
I don't konw the real legal risks of selling oil lamps with open flame (like yours) to a private citizen in your country (America?) but generally (Europe, Morocco etc.) there is no problem: if the blaze arrives, the fault isn't ever of the producer but of the user, like candles elsewhere. Here in Europe you can buy all kind of jar, in metal or glass, also very basic, for burning any lamp oils at different not specified flash points... so, there is almost not legal control on oil lamps or candles... the control falls on the user. If the glass lamp falls and crashes, the blaze is not ascribed to the producer but to the user (legally). So i think you can sell your creations.
If you dont use cork or any float for the wick the duration of the natural oil flame will be no very long, except if the jar is large.
Would this work with olive oil ? If it does I would like to buy some
That's a good question. The flash point of olive oil is quite a bit higher. I'll have to test it out.
Thanks if it does I would love to buy some please ;)
If it helps in any way wicks have to be close to the olive oil to work so may have to be shorter no expert but have used olive oil lamps a long time cheers
WHO IS GONNA GIVE AN EXPLANATION WHY THE GLASS GOGGLES HAS THE NAME DIDYMIUM ??
Hope you don’t have a beard when you put the fire pending on! LOL barbecuing over the weekend for $200 I’m all set now check your messenger I have a picture of a marble I made happy Father’s Day to you, Mike
Haha, yea I might have to make it chambered in a way so it won't light me on fire. Nice job on that marble Mike, very round. Careful not to lose it, marbles are the first to get lost.
Can you patent it ?
Hey Travel Canon, I did research patents. As I understand the patent protects others from selling your ideas in exchange for open documentation of the device along with some money to file. This helps others learn from your design to improve their own work without sacrificing your marketability.
Long story short I don't have the funds to file and already documented the design here for others to use. Also I'm not big into finance, you could say I'm more of a poor philanthropist. Thanks for asking.
Glass wick so not your invention..
Because remember my grandmother having one... Almost half a century ago..
Hello Antti Laaksonen, I've never seen or heard of one before. The closest thing I've found after making my own was a fiberglass wick, you might be thinking of that. I had no idea fiberglass wicks were a thing until recently.