Flat wick lanterns were specifically designed to use combustible fuel which has a flashpoint of between 124 degrees F up to 150 degrees F (55C-65C). If you use fuel with a lower flash point you will have no wick regulation, get below 100 degrees F (flammable fuel) and you then have a working Molotov Cocktail. If you use fuel with a flash point above 150 degrees F then you will generate CO (Carbon monoxide). All veggie oils have flash points well above 300 degrees F. So your assumption of burning vegetable oils being a non toxic option is seriously flawed one. The only exception is when using small 1/4" diametre (or smaller) round wicks with oil as a liquid candle you can then use vegetable oils safely. I hope this helps. If you plan to experiment with burning vegetable oils then please get a CO alarm they are small and inexpensive if you set the alarm off don't burn that fuel any more.

We Indians use vegetable oil lamps since eternity. They are simple to make, cheap and long lasting with smooth flame.

I grew up with kerosene lanterns and they don’t need to smoke, turn them down before you light it then work yourself up to a nice light, never turn it to maximum so it won’t go there by itself, or start flaming up more keep it down to 3/4 of about where it would smoke that is how you control your smoke

You can use anything 100% cotton as a wick - preferably untreated. If you buy cotton or macrame yarn you can cut to size, the thicker the wick the brighter the flame, you can twist thin yarn together. Or you can use cotton balls and twist your own wicks. To get the oil to draw faster in the wick make sure the top of the wick already has oil on it also before lighting, just dip into oil or drop some onto it.

Well, I know the Romans used olive oil lamps so it would work. I don't have my lanterns handy so I can't look, but is it possible to loosen the weave of the wick? One of the reasons that it wouldn't draw the thicker olive oil is the tightness of the weave of the wick or to possibly remove a strand or two of the cotton strands to give room for the olive oil to be drawn up? You might want to look into the different grades of olive oil. I can't recall off the top of my head which is which, but salad oil and cooking oil and different brands are thicker or thinner and can vary immensely. A third idea is possibly blending with a different vegetable oil. All oils will burn, but it might take a bit of experimenting...possibly peanut? FYI: I'm cheap. So instead of Bertolli you might want to try no name oil that comes in a gallon can and lesser quality inexpensive oils may be thinner. Also don't use it outside in the cold all vegetable oils thicken or solidify in cold temps. FYI 2: Try saturating the wick in the oil prior to installing in the lantern, like soak it in oil for 10-20 minutes. Sorry if this comes off as pushy or know-it-all, I don't, just can't think of a better way to put things and my son said I sounded like I was lecturing people.

One of the things about my Lebanese heritage is that we use olive oil for everything from cooking with to rubbing on dry skin and so forth. So what we've always done is keep a large can (1-2 gallons) of olive oil under the sink. Greek and Middle Eastern specialty grocers sell it that way. It's cheaper in large containers, and it's great to always have around. It's non-toxic and actually good for you, so there's no need to worry about children or pets ingesting it by accident. One thing about using it in a lamp is that there is some vegetable matter that will leave a little residue, but it cleans up easily. You can even clean it up with the solvent property of the oil itself. i think that using plain cotton from a t-shirt or jersey cloth which isn't as tightly woven as commerical wick material, might draw the oil with a little more volume.

Replace your wicks with carbon felt. Those last forever and do not burn/get used up like the cotton ones do. Get a sheet and cut to fit. If you sew in some thin copper wire (stranded speaker wire or copper crafting wire) into any wick, it will warm any oil and make it burn better. Try cutting the olive oil wick into a spear head shape. You get more surface area and more light.

Awesome video. A 100% cotton wick will give a brighter burn Vs nylon blended wicks. I fully agree on the multi use of olive oil. I keep a 18oz bottle in my bug out bag with 2 compact mini lamps the size of a salt shakers.

Carbon felt is called the forever wick and can be cut to fit your lantern. Use a few drops of different accelerate to ignite the carbon wick eg kerosene.

Move the bindings on your snowshoes farther back. The should tie on where the hole for your foot is so that your toe points through the hole. That way the snowshoe will trail behind on the surface of the snow and you don't have to take those big giant steps.

I've always live watching you outdoor skills and knowledge. Real deal awesome!

I do 3 quater vegetables and 1 quater mix with alcohol and is great and not frozen in winter.

I use vegetable oil it’s cheaper and thinner

I've done the olive oil in a orange peel once for heating the tent while winter camping... It's great for alot of uses as well... Great to see you posting more offten...

Very useful and your commenters are also highly informative

i didnt know you could use oilve oil thank for sharing this.

For the peace of mind, I would surely go with the Oil, even if it chews through a wick, They're cheap enough to get. Great Side By Side, Dave ! Hoping You & Yours Have a Swell & Happy Labor Day weekend ! ATB T God Bless

olive oil works as bug repellent as well, just apply on skin and and rub in like you would with a cream and the mosquitoes stay clear, it kills the bugs in standing water as well if you put in 1 or 2 drops, all the larva die as the oil changes the surface tension of the water so they drown i think. it works anyway, Shalom

It is called a kerosene lantern for a reason. I found that kerosene works best. I love the light they make and the heat if it is cold, but they do tend to smell, but I have found that enough candles and or lanterns will keep you warm in very cold times if the power goes out

As you mentioned, the wick is struggling to draw up the olive oil, so you could perhaps try using 100% carbon felt as a wick instead: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gK2Gjbl0up6qd3k.html Another great thing about this wick is it never needs to be replaced.

Try thinning the olive oil with MCT and/or a small amount of ethanol. You might also try Kevlar wick instead of cotton.

Kerosene burn fast is good for reading for see better in the dark., Olive oil burn slow is good for heating a room size . Myself experience living in a cold small room. Thanks for sharing 🙏

Watching this, my theory is that with this style of lamp, the wick may be too long, and the oil has too far to travel. I've just started making simple olive oil lamps, using a coil of wire to hold a short wick that burns directly over the surface of the oil. I suspect that the proximity of the flame makes the oil a lot hotter, which helps it rise up the wick faster, and because it doesn't have so far to go, the flow is much better. The wick has lasted for hours so far without needing to be pulled up at all. The size of the flame is similar to that of a candle. Traditional olive oil lamps seem to have worked the same way, with a wick resting on the side of a pool of oil, very close to the surface.

a heavy oil needs the wick to lay at a gentle slope,leave a half to 3 quarter inch of wick out of the oil and it will work great

If you use carbon felt to act as the wick, it does not burn so that may solve that issue of over burning the cotton based wick. give it a try. i got mine on amazon.

I saw a video where the guy used a cut up old t shirt as the wick with olive oil. Maybe try that.

I would be concerned using olive oil on your guns, unlike mineral based oils Olive oil is vegetable based and as the temperature falls the oil becomes thicker and thicker and down in the 0 region it can go almost to a buttery texture. Mineral oils dont suffer from this problem and I do wonder with the build up of olive oil on delicate parts of your gun would it not cause it to stick or jam if the oil became more of a sludge than a fine gun oil? I live in spain where most of the world's olive oil is made and you can see it clearly in the bottles in winter in the bars and restaurants where the oil takes on a opaque colour as the temperature falls. Now from being over this side of the pond and not readily having access to hand guns I dont know how fine the parts are but i do know I would not put it on my shotgun because of that reason. It may not be a problem but gun oil is made for guns and olive oil is made for human consumption?? Good to see the comparison, Olive oil for centuries has been used in lamps but normally the ones where there is a thin string wick and gives just the same light as a candle normally. The problem with mineral oil its fumes are very toxic and it means carry two fuels but if I was backpacking &hiking I wouldnt take that sort of light anyway due to its fragility of the glass.

I bet a wick material could be made that would work better with olive oil,pretty sure kerosene is way cheaper so noone has bothered to sort that out.

I have been using olive oil in the same exact rig you have and what I’ve been doing to get more oil to wick up and give more light is to remove four threads from the row behind the outer most layer and if possible and it takes some patience and a wick that isn’t too long get the center most thread ( just one , not the whole bundle ) and the extra space puts speed on the wicking process but the brighter light and increased fuel will burn your wick even faster than before but wicks are cheap and the other choices paraffin and kerosene are straight up poison and will give someone or something in your home cancer eventually. Remember dogs and cats and other domestic animals are low to the ground and breathe in all the fumes that hug the ground we wouldn’t even realize existed and usually don’t and them little lungs are being damaged by something that is our fault and easily fixed. Godspeed and let’s all prey we will never need these olive oil lamps for anything but for fun and recreation.

How long does each lamp last for the same amount of fuel?

Someone in the Orthodox Church said if you soak the wick in Salt water beforehand and let it dry out, it will burn brighter. I have a new Hurricane lantern and tried Olive oil and it burned up the flat cotton wick real fast - like minutes not hours. Maybe the ancients used a slower burning material?

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Fiberglass wicks are not consumed but I don't think they make flat ones like lanterns use.

The pharmaceutical grade paraffin can be taken orally, it's taste-less and doesn't smell, it's Great for relieving constipation and wind. I've been taking a teaspoon everyday for several days now and it's been working it's magic, not sure if I'd cook with it though. Lamp oil is more refined than kerosene and some orally take that. Kerosene is for heaters and lamp oil for lamps. Some sell kerosene as lamp oil so a Good sourse is needed to insure you get Good stuff that burns well in lamps. Lamp and pharmaceutical grade paraffin/kerosene is more refined than kerosene for heaters. Not all kerosene is equal which some assume is. Try a 50/50 mix of lamp oil and veg oil, that should work out cheaper than pure lamp oil, not dry on the wick and be brighter than plain veg oil.

This is a very useful video. I just bought two little glass oil lamps and I was wondering if I could use olive oil in them too. Surely it would be okay?

I really like this guy. Hey, where are you by the way? Just livin’ the life out there.. love it!

I heard people are using carbon filter material as wicks for olive oil and vegetable oil lamps. It does not burn so the wick should last a very long time.

Very interesting video.Had not thought of using Olive Oil for lamps. I have always felt good about Kero because it replaced whale oil. Wonder what sort of critters garlic infused Olive Oil would attract when outdoors. BTW I only clean my guns when the voices in my head tell me too. Subscribed and look forward to more. Thanks and Cheers from Down Under.

Excellent, thanks. I am now wondering about a 50/50 with Kerosene to recycle oil

We did not have good luch lighting with olive oil, but we have been using kerosene to cook pancakes, and no more sticking!

The little flatwicks in the lanterns don't allow the oil to suck up through as fast,, That's why those mason jars they call bright Betty's work brighter because they have a rope type of wick and they're not pinched down that's tight olive oil also is hard to get to WIC in a given height That's why I was impressed with the floating wick that I saw on another KZfaq

The difference between them is night and day. If these where battery powered torches I'd swear the one on the right was using Duracell batteries 😂 👍

A good cotton wick would work like a string from a cotton mop we have saw that on other videos but havent try yet

Make a carbon felt wick. They never burn up! That way you don't have to worry about burning through your regular wicks. Plus they wick up the liquid faster than a regular wick.

What happens when you mix the kerosene with the olive oil 50/50

I recently bought one also tight olive oil same problem thought every minute or two I have to turn it up definitely does not stay wet I was wondering also the same thing I'm using the white Wick with red stripe seems kind of compact or dents I noticed some of the other old lanterns here's a different kind didn't look more like a shoelace but yet 7/8 or an inch wide I'm going to try one anybody else have any suggestions how about them for sh TF

One way is to make the olive oil less heavy by thinning it out

So my comment isn't going to be about the dangers of using fuel lamps or heaters. either by causing a fire or by asphyxiation and or poisoning by breathing noxious fumes, no it won't be. Further let me be quite sure to explain that my opinions are not based on by what I have read or been told (I do read/study a lot though), but rather from direct experience and experimentation, over years. I have quite a large collection of lamps, stoves, heaters, you name it. I have also used them all extensively and tested various conditions for carbon monoxide. I won't say there is no danger in carbon monoxide poisoning but the chances of it are small if someone has any sort of sense in using these products. One should know about the dangers certainly, but going on about them is about as useful as telling people to watch out for drunk drivers, red lights etc every time they get in their cars. I understand that the sight of an open flame may throw some people into fear paralysis just thinking of all the possible associated dangers, but let me say that humanity used flame associated tools, both for heating and lighting for far longer than they have used electricity and still managed to thrive. Just thought I'd throw those comments in as a breath of fresh air to the usual opposite dribble coming from people that would seriously consider the dangers of simply striking a match and probably never have. So onto my opinion of using olive oil for things such as corrosion inhibition, lubrication and as a wood treatment. Yes, I would use it for that if I was stuck somewhere and I had nothing else, but only then. Olive oil is not good for any of those purposes and has never been proclaimed as such in the past, at least not by people that know its properties. Having an oil that does all may sound like a good idea but in practice there is no such thing. If you are on here reading this then you have access to the proper products, use them instead. I won't go into all the details why it is not good for any of those tasks but one of the major reasons is that olive oil is organic and it will go rancid. It will attract bacteria and makes a great medium for mold to grow in. Bacteria will increase corrosion in steel and decompose wood. Mold will heavily stain wood. Use something suitable for those tasks instead.

Makes a little bit of kerosene in your olive oil thin it out just a little bit

You're not really supposed to burn through lamp wicks. just sayin. they should last a very long time if used properly. The wick should not ever be burning. if it ever burns, that is an error and damage. repair and avoid that and you can have a wick for years. only use lamp oil if u can.

I know it's a year later, however, I'm sending video of a woman who made a firebox with olive oil. She used a cotton mop to make the wicks. They burn very brightly and for 8 hours! Again I know it's a firebox, but maybe the wicks made a difference. Hope you're still interested. :-) It wouldn't let me download or copy it, so here's the episode and channel: DIY Dollar Tree Decor Elegant Portable Indoor Fire-pit - Diy Table Top fire bowl - Fireplace - Easy (on the 'creative living lifestyle' channel). Hope it helps.

Thanks for the comparison!

I would think if the toothed rollers were adjusted with a wider gap the oil might wic up better. I think they are fairly tight so as to be "tuned" for thinner products like kerosene.

Have you tried carbon felt ? I know it works with brass wick holder Cheers , thank you for sharing o

Oh thank-you for this video. I never knew you could use olive oil in hurricane lamps! I’m going to try all-purpose cooking olive oil, (rather than virgin as it’s cheaper and I’d probably cry using Extra virgin for burning and not eating!); once the paraffin’s run out of my hurricane lamps. The lack of smoke, soot and mess with having to set up a paraffin lamp outside persuades me to give it a go! Any advice before putting olive oil in what ‘should’ be empty and opened and evaporated oil lamps receptacles? Also any update on your choice of wick? Did you try another slower burning type or stick with the one you have? Thanks again for the video. So much to learn and take in when becoming less reliant on the state for services!

Try carbon fibre for wick it’s fire proof I use it for alcohol stove

My lamp just burns the wick and cannot pull up the olive oil, does not work

Talking about lamp oil thats something almost in the pass im 76 we cant find it almost no where so we have considered making some with the cooking oil; thank u for such a good video??

Thanks for the video from Australia.

No kidding...a kerosene fire on your body is horrible....Ty for the olive oil idea.

Great video, any updates? did you try other wicks or oils?

When it heats up the oil will get thinner and absorb end of the work better.

the olive oil wick is too densely woven to adequately capilerate the fuel to the desired combustion point quickly enough ergo following the fuel back for the flame size it consumes the alternate fuel (the wick) ~ a looser wick, more absorbent but the mechanism may not feed it properly or perhaps cut (thin) the olive oil with an additive / agent ~ or both ~ what thins oil ?? In dire straits, it'd be enough light for my purposes ~ here's hoping you never need to resort to either ~ cheers!

you also make sure to get the best like Moroccan or Tunisian

Also try other oils like lavender

I ran out of olive oil. Can I make french fries using kerosene?

Grapeseed is supposedly a lighter oil than olive oil thus able to soak through wick faster?

Man this is so right, olive oil doesn't work well on a kerosene lamp, the lamp must be designed to work with oil to work well.

Seems pointless to use a fuel such as olive oil, as it is three times as expensive and produces very little light, as kerosene was ment to be used in these lamps. Use the correct fuel, be careful and you will have a useful source of light.

Mix a little bit of kerosene in your olive oil thin it out just a little

Maybe jute twine for olive oil?

Great video brotha , can you mix lamp oil with olive oil

PLEASE GET TO THE POINT WAY QUICKER!

Must live below the equator.. Everything screws off and on the opposite direction!!

Could you use any tipe of vegetable oil or just olive oil?

For a survival situation in a new lantern you can eat the oil for calories.

You could use canola oil to

Coconut oil is better than kerosene and coconut biodiesel is even better

The light isn't even close. When the whole goal of this tool is L I G H T , the decision (including consideration of all the bad) is clear. In my humble opinion.

Excellent!

Olive oil burns the cleanest without carbon smoke if u use cheap vegatable oil it's not clean much smoke ur breathing.

Love the axe blade! Nice video! Kerosene stinks!

I just want to know where he got the little lantern.

Try carbon felt

i was looking for the cancer cure with kerosene.

Hi, my lanter said kerosen only, can I use oil?

Olive oil is absolutely fine and you'd be better off using it to eat instead canola.

carbon felt maybe?

another video said that because the olive oil is thicker you need to have the flame closer to the oil because it doesn't rise as quickly. hope this helps. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLBypJijqtGXp6s.html

never really thought of olive oil as a fuel.. learn something new every day.....

Why not try vegetable oil

What lantern is that? is it still on sale somewhere?

New to lamps but can you burn these indoors?

Where can I find a lantern that size

I bet if you cut strips out of old jeans you could use em as wicks and burn up as many as you like.

5:22 uh, I'd swear he's turning that cap clockwise to loosen it. Am I in the matrix? Do the Russians thread things backwards? Is that why we fought the cold war?

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Buy a forever carbon wick problem solved.

I would never use cooking oil

Can you use Zippo fuel?