Pocket Sized Lantern

Step 4 Finishing Up:

Slowly pour in your Lamp Oil, Kerosene, Vegetable Oil, whatever, making sure not to spill any. Screw on the lid with the wick in it. The wick should be long enough to where it's resting on the bottom of the jar, but no so long that it curls up.

Make sure you don't overfill the jar. I usually don't fill more than about halfway and it lasts plenty of time.

Comments

[kube60]

There used to be a show when I was a kid called Mr. Wizard's world. In one episode, he poured some veg oil into a dish, tied a piece of string to a nut to weight it and lit the string. Instant candle. Veg oil most certainly will work. You can even run a car on it.

[marlton2010]

Vegetable Oil not work for fire, but lamp oil, it work!!

[fascist]

Vegetable oil certainly will work. I have made similar lamps and have tested them with both canola and olive oils. Canola is just a modified low acid version of rapeseed oil, which has been used for lamp oil for centuries. Olive oil was extensively used as a lamp oil in Mediterranean countries where olives are plentiful. I have heard that "vegetable oil" will leave a residue and not burn as cleanly as canola or olive oil, but will still work. Dissolving some salt into the oil or a dried brine solution on the cotton wick helps the lamp to burn brighter when using canola and olive oils.

[zipzapper859]

will rubbing achohol work ?

[smh]

I think rubbing alcohol would burn way too fast.

[RaNDoMLeiGH]

I think it would burn way too HOT for this type of jar.

[wehrlzz77]

what els could be an alternative