[TheForge] coal or charcoal

[David Childress]

Peter sounds like what you need if the process for making biodeaeil
from used cooking oil.  This is on my list of thing to do but it has
not made the top yet.

David Childress

On 6/12/08, Peter Hirst <saltydog335 at aol.com> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>
> "D00d, ANY oil will work in a wicked lamp"
>
> Not exactly.  In my historic shop, I want to use Aladdin mantle lamps --
> because they produce real light, about 60 watt equivalent.  I can tell you
> from experience that they and other center draft lamps will clog if the
> right fuel is not used.  I worked as the lamp guy in an old school general
> store for a year, and saw any number of Alladins, Rayos and similar with
> wicks that looked like they had been dipped in epoxy.  For technical reasons
> that I can explain if you like, the denser, heavier compounds in certain
> fuels build up in these wicks and eventually prevent the capillary action
> that they rely on from drawing any more oil.  Alladin speciies not using
> "smokeless, odorless" lamp oil, for example, because of its paraffin
> content, recommending only kerosene.  Which is in fact smokelss and odorless
> in a properly tuned center draft lamp.  I am currently working on
> formulation of a recycled veggie based fuel that will not clog a center
> draft wick.  I'll let you know how it turns out. So far I can tell you, it
> has to be mechanically filtered pretty fine.
>
>
> Keziah
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