SC - Lighting for cooking and camp
WyteRayven at aol.com
WyteRayven at aol.com
Tue Apr 18 17:49:15 PDT 2000
Hi Vika!
Thank you for your response to my query on lighting. With your response and a
couple of others....along with a reminder about the Florilegium, (I had
forgotten about it. What an incredible resource!) I think that I am going to
try a compromise. I think that I will buy 1 or 2 of the lamps from Lehmans,
and I will try making a couple, and see what happens. I am really interested
in the olive oil variations because they appear to be safer than kerosene,
and lamp oil lamps.
Thanks again for your input!
Ilia
In a message dated 4/18/00 11:15:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tori at panix.com
writes:
>
> I have never used their lamps, but I experimented with oil lamps last year,
> because we needed overhead light in our dining pavilion (it sucks to have
> flame on the table--usually they end up right at eye level so you can't
> see a damn thing else), didn't want electricity, and _really_ didn't want
> to be picking candle wax out of the hair.
>
> After much Florilegium delving, I came up with the idea of using a
> smallish glass bowl, not unlike a fish bowl, easily found at craft
> stores. I filled it halfway with olive oil (doesn't flash), procured
> floating wicks from an Eastern Orthodox church supply site, and tested
> the mechanism at home. That was fine.
>
> To suspend the thingy, I thought one of those braided rope wossnames
> that are used to hold plant pots (you know, the ones that sort of
> cradle the pot and come down in a tassel underneath) would do, since
> the flame was well below the level of the bowl. It worked for two
> nights of careful supervision, but the third night the heat managed to
> burn its way through the rope. Oops. This was why I used olive oil;
> it fell on the table and oil went everywhere, but the oil extinguished
> the flame. (No Scadians were harmed in the making of this motion
> picture.)
>
> At Pennsic, I found among the merchants a lamp of similar design, only
> they have a rounded-cylinder glass bit suspended from a varnished wood
> plate which is then hanging from three chains. That was a bit better.
>
> I should point out that the light from either of these was not
> particularly bright, but one can always make up for that in quantity.
>
> I also purchased, from the church site, the lamp which is _supposed_
> to go with those wicks, which is silver (well, probably tin or nickel
> or something) and glitzy. I thought it would be cool to have a whole
> bunch of those, but they're like $25/each. It's very small, and the
> oil reservoir is about the size of a votive. Nifty, though.
>
> HTH, etc.
>
> Vika
> who _really_ wants a 30-candle chandelier, but not in a Pennsic windstorm
>
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