Re: Re: Olive Oil Lamps

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http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT & iProductID=474

Here’s a picture, but I am still having trouble

visualizing how the wick sits in the oil?

Does part

of the wick touch the water? Or is it suspended over the water and just in the

oil with the wire contraption?

I am

guessing if you just

weighted wick down to the bottom the water would prevent it from

burning, right?

Has anyone

tried placing EO in the OO? Did I send that post here about burning EO helping

clear out bacteria and virus’ in the air? But you had to BURN them, just diffusing them didn’t have the same effect.

You guys

are nice to put up with dummies like me J

Carol in IL

Mom to seven kids, twin grandson's and , 4 DS

" Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain. " Psalm

127

My problem is not how I look, it's how you see me

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Here is some info I have that may help.

http://www.auraoil.com/dalideco.html

http://www.phoenixrising-pt.com/collage.asp?catid=41 & catname=Oil+Lamps

I came up with an easy and inexpensive way to make oil lamps with floating wicks. All you need is a glass vessel (or glass cone beaker, funnel beaker or palm cup), water, liquid vegetable oil, cork, aluminum foil, cotton string and matches.

1. Fill the glass vessel 2/3 full with water. Then carefully pour in oil, about an inch or so (remember it floats on top of the water).

2. Then twist a wick out of your cotton string. I use crochet cotton string with aprox 8 individual lengths twisted together.

3. Then slice off a piece of cork, approx 1/4 inch thick and punch a hole in it (mine already had one from the corkscrew).

4. Cut a circle of aluminum foil that is the same size as the cork. Punch a hole in it too. This helps keep the cork 'float' from burning.

5. Now thread the wick through the cork and Al foil circles. There should be a small amount of wick on top (1/4-1/2 inch) and some hanging below (approx 1 inch). Make sure that the wick 'tail' isn't so long below that it hangs in the water.

6. Carefully dip the wick on the top of the float in the oil and then place the wick and float (with the tail downwards in the center of the lamp.) This dipping put a little fuel on the wick and helps it get started.

7. Now light your lamp, matches seem easiest for me. The wick should burn down to a certain level and then just burn the fuel. Notes: You can use a non-transluscent vessel but not as much light will be let out. If you don't have Al foil it still works but your cork may burn too. (This is how I did it the first time.) You can refill while the lamp is lit if your carefully pour in a little more

oil. The next time you need your lamp, just pull up a little fresh wick and light again.

Here is the listing of companies which sell cork wick floats for oil lamps and the pegged bottom votive glasses which may be used with these floats. These floats however, one must note, are only for olive oil or other vegetable oil fed lamps.

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FOR CORK WICK FLOATS SEE:

A) www.easternchristian.com

www.conciliarpress.com

NOTE:

There are two styles of cork wick floats, round and triangular, which I am aware of. Both are available from the two companies listed above. To view them, go to www.easternchristian.com/vigil.html. Scroll to the very end of the listing. doihavtasay <doihavtasay@...> wrote:

http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT & iProductID=474

Here’s a picture, but I am still having trouble visualizing how the wick sits in the oil?

Suzi

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

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"Does part of the wick touch the water? "

Water? It rests in olive oil, not water. It looks like there is a metal wick holder in the pictures. The wick itself does not burn (it does but extremely slowly), the oil draws up the wick and the oil burns.

Gayla Always Enough RanchAcampo, Californiagoatclearing@... http://coloredboers.home.att.net/always.html

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Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 10:28 AM

Subject: RE: Re: Olive Oil Lamps

http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT & iProductID=474

Here’s a picture, but I am still having trouble visualizing how the wick sits in the oil?

Does part of the wick touch the water? Or is it suspended over the water and just in the oil with the wire contraption?

I am guessing if you just weighted wick down to the bottom the water would prevent it from burning, right?

Has anyone tried placing EO in the OO? Did I send that post here about burning EO helping clear out bacteria and virus’ in the air? But you had to BURN them, just diffusing them didn’t have the same effect.

You guys are nice to put up with dummies like me J

Carol in IL

Mom to seven kids, twin grandson's and , 4 DS

"Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain." Psalm 127

My problem is not how I look, it's how you see me