1680 The Magical Forever Wick - The Plant Pot Heater On Steroids
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One day a world famous scientist will be interviewed and he or she will say I was inspired to do science because of a guy called Rob on UA-cam
that would be so cool!
that's bogus. you're bogus. I'm bogus. momma's dead now from the crab disease.
Hi, my name is Rob and I am on UA-cam. Please folks, be inspired, haha. Jk.
yes rob and deane from the curiosity show
@@robertthrobert2337 And I believe your momma is very,very chuffed that she got Away from You.....
And the Curiosity Show,,, has 2Bogus and Envious kids.....
I just recently found this channel and the superior teaching talent of this man. The internet is living up to its original promise with this kind of content. Well done, Robert. 👍
Yes, this is REALLY what the internet is for. Sharing excellent ideas. I only recently discovered the channel and it's changing the view of my future. I am going to strive to be as off-grid as possible hence forth. Thanks to @Robert Murray-Smith
well said that man
@@MrLiamHenderson nah our supreme leaders will provide🤢.............they're just leaving it too the very last sec , Hollywood style
Where has this guy been all my life? Love him! My homeschooled kids are going to love this. Now I’m off to see what else he has done!
Me too! Just found him a few minutes ago and subscribed!!
@doubleheadergr we don’t have to DO his projects. Watching the burny ones could be educational enough 😉
Can anyone tell me if using a stainless steel pot seems to work as well as the clay pot of similar size? Hard to tell, I think it is as effective bc the pot gets very hot very quickly and stays hot. I find with both that I idon'thave to set the thermostat anywhere near as high bc the heat is comfortable when using either of these, but please let name know if you have tried this. Thanks.
Right?
@@gudgengrebe me too!
It seemed to me that when Rob placed the chimney on the plant pot heater the amount of soot exiting into the room went up substantially.
I thought that too. Seeing how there was a already a hole in the planter, I wonder if a chimney was needed.
I think keeps down carbon,,, I would Crack a window ,,maybe,, 🤔 but good ideal
Farmers used to clean used motor oil by placing it in a barrel in the top of a building and wicking it through a hemp rope to a barrel at the bottom of the building. It would take a long time, but clean oil was the product. I wonder if the carbon wick would clean oil at a faster rate with going uphill and using gravity to separate particles?
I bought a 1" to 1/2" copper reducer to use as the ferrel for the wick. The bottom leaves the felt less compressed for easier wicking and is a steadier base with less chance of being knocked over.
Weld three little bars for better resistance.
@ddh... Thanks, works a treat! ;)
Brilliant thank you.
Have you tried this yet and if so, how are you dealing with the soot?
@@TwinkleToes2day He covered this issue in his video. You have to add a chimney to this to make sure it gets hot enough to burn the soot.
Our School systems need teachers like you. Awesome presentation, thanks . You have me thinking. Using a small catalytic tail pipe for more heat and a cleaner burn 🔥
I absolutely love your films
I love the way you take regular household stuff and use it in ways in which it wasn’t designed to be used for !
This is a superb way to keep the winter chill off
Thanks !!!
For us, this is a seriously life changing innovation. We have no electricity on our land when are working and use lanterns with very expensive lamp oil. I can't wait to try this! Amazing! Thank you!
Have you tried this yet and if so, how are you dealing with the soot?
@@TwinkleToes2day could you make a long enough flexible pipe that brings the soot outside leaves you a healthy warm environment especially in combination with a second pot creating a double wall and turbine effect.
Did you try the wickin heater yet?? Please let me know how it works plzz
I too live off grid
Expensive and dangerous.
A small solar recharge station that recharges tool LED lights is safe and sane.
Brilliant. This reminds me of an old survival stove I saw when I was a kid. Coffee can, with a toilet paper roll in it. Filled with alcohol, when lit, it only burned on the top, and the paper barely singed.
same principle I think cheers mate
That's a cheap Tiki Torch to ward off 'skeeters!!! Wire a tin can to a post, insert TP, pour in appropriate amount of kerosene & light on 🔥 🔥 🔥!!!😁👍🏻
@@fookingsog great idea. I need two for my entrance in winter to guide drivers in. Thanks for the top tip!
A large tin can half full of sand with a few ounces / 75ml of gasoline in it will burn for - idk how long, I put it out after half an hour. Not very safe, but probably better than burning straight liquid petrol.
@@bozo5632 petrol....gasoline, diesel or kerosene???🤔
bloody brilliant. I had seen the plant pot heaters which I liked, but was reluctant to make it due to the frequency of replacing the tea lights. but this is a game changer. cheers
Please install carbon monoxide detectors in every room you will have that heaters. I am afraid that many people will die this winter from carbon monoxide poisoning.
@@misiotatazuzi7970 Thank you. I was truly wondering if that would be the prohibiting factor. Everything this genius has to have a flaw somewhere.
Thank you again.
Ever heard of Crisco candles. It will last longer
Please watch the videos that are also on UA-cam about the extreme fire hazard with these pot heaters. Most people would probably not even think of such a thing (including me) until they watch them. Don’t go to sleep with them burning for sure if you use candles under them. That paraffin is amazingly dangerous when confined under those pots! I couldn’t believe it!
The amount of BTU's is determined by the oil and wick and the pot cannot increase it.
This is a game changer for many reasons. There is 10 kw in 1 liter diesel.
Good job Robert.
You connect with your audience with ease! There are few channels (of any material) that I enjoy as much as this one.
You nailed exactly what I wanted to accomplish a few weeks back. Thanks for sharing!
Rob, you are a true treasure!!!
I’ve been prepping and the one thing I don’t have YET, is emergency heat.
I plan on gather the items and have - just in case of an emergency.
Thank you so much for this amazing information!!!!
A chunk of cotton rope or cord supported in the oil also works fine and doesn’t itself burn up - it’s the basis of the “floating oil candles” that were very popular some time ago. All you really need is a ring around the “neck” of the cord (such as a grommet) which is used to both support the end of the cord above the oil, and also to contain the burning action at the end of the cord. We use these a lot while camping, as they’re self-extinguishing, nontoxic, and pretty.
Wish I'd seen this comment before I wasted money buying 2 different pieces of activated carbon felt from amzn only to discover both had Fire retardant coating even though they didn't say they did. Will try cotton.
@@cath5360 I bought one of them too Cath. Really frustrating. Thanks for your post. It was the one I was looking for. The felt I bought was for plumbers. I tried cotton and it didn't work either. I can't set that vegie oil on fire no matter what I do. LOL
So... is the real issue to use vegetable oil? Does the rope wick ..actually wick up the vegetable oil, Since that seemed to be an issue? Having g a small rope used, and not be dangerous if knocked down seems great.. but I can't see the rope not burning and having to be raised or at least checked every half hour.
@@cath5360 send them back. If they didn’t disclose the fire retardant aspect, they should have to refund them.
Didn't they use to use a piece of plastic with the wick push through an X cut into the plasic. It was like the shallow dish you'd get if you cut off the bottom 1/2" if a water bottle. Allowing a small portion of oil in the floating tray kept it from burning.
Such a wonderful educator! I appreciate every bit of knoledge you share.
cheers mate
Genius, I loved the video by “the outsider- candle convection heater” but the design flaw was the candles would naturally reduce in height and so would the performance. Definitely a game changer 😊
I saw that and liked it - combine this with his stove design and you have a winner
Great... I've not watched recent videos... time to catch up!
Just watching this reminds me why I so enjoy your carry-on... your infectious enthusiasm ignites action!!👍😁💥👍
Brilliant explanations with great confidence , lovely accent and sparkling intelligence ! Thank you Sir !
My 24 yo. mind exploded with the capabilities this could be used for! Defiantly a mentor to look up to!
Definitely.
That's pretty cool and I'm thinking there's gonna be a lot of applications for the forever wick! Also if you add a second larger plant pot above that one it'll create a draft between the two giving a lot more airflow kinda like the air multiplying fans. That will increase the heated area. Used one like that on a sailboat for awhile wish I'd have known about the activated carbon fiber back then 🤠
awesome mate - nice tip - cheers
So you put another larger plant pot above the other? How high above? Or do you put it down over it with an air gap at the bottom?
Excellent idea.
No I think it will just make more smoke
@@yougeo you want a narrow air gap between the two pots for the air to collect the radiant heat from the inner pot efficiently as it rises. You also have to play with the air gap between the inner pot and the tray or other surface it's sitting on to maximize the heat capture while also allowing enough air flow to maintain the flame 😉
Totally inspired! 👌Thank you! 😁The laughter is disarming.
This was SO interesting! I’ve just found you and have subscribed after watching this fascinating video. I love learning and the way you present things is very entertaining . Thank you for this!
amazing discovery, especially just before what appears is going to be 'Operation Dark Winter'. Thank you
Man, I've said it before but I am going to say it again. Robert, you are a legend for all you show and share, truly God Bless you many times over!
You are helping a lot of people with this video and I greatly greatly appreciate it.
Thank you wonderful good sir! I'm sending this video to my friend in Germany. Love your wit and playful intellect.
I had tried using a cotton wick before and had no success. Then decided I would stick to lamp oil. This idea will definitely expand my resilience when camping in a safer manner. Brilliant work!
cheers mate
I think I'm starting to enjoy this series as much as the DIY battery stuff from way back. Thank you sir.
awesome mate -I am glad to hear that
Very informative, and quite interesting timing that this popped in my feed considering a hurricane is on its way towards me.
Very interesting. You taught me something today. Thank you for sharing this information. I'm over 60yro and still enjoy learning new things.
I felt much enlightened after watching this simply brilliant solution.
Now I'm sure there is going to be a shortage of cooking oil this winter😵💫
lol - well it does depend on how the veg oil supply holds up
I had a feeling I was going to see a carbon sponge as the wick, though the felt was similarly brilliant. I was goofing around with carbon filters one day that are designed to be a pre-filter medium on HEPA filters and noticed the same effect. I hadn't the foresight to make it into anything like this, but that's why we come to you, Robert! 👍
As a small bonus, at least in the US though I suspect you can get it anywhere or online, the carbon filter stuff is available in relatively small volume and quite cheap. Minus the parts I've cut off for my purposes, the one I have is a meter/yard long and 24 inches wide (~600mm if my armchair conversion math is close). I think it was 12 or $15 US and at a home improvement type store, though I've seen it online as well. I originally got it for both the pre-filter and experimenting with battery electrolyte-holding duty, but not I'm genuinely curious about what else it can do! Fire!!
lol - it was you who set me thinking about this mate - so - personally I see it as you to blame lol
I have a bunch from the 5 inch filter for my cat litter box. Easy to find at pet stores.
@@ThinkingandTinkering I definitely blame you in the best way for me having gotten the graphene bug. Now I've got 500 pounds of anthracite on my patio that I'm trying to convert before the end of the year! Just about to kick into phase 3 this weekend as a matter of fact as we go for the instant graphitization method via plasma. 😈It's gotten a bit out of hand with the processing and all the new equipment, but I feel it's enriched my life, so we'll call it a draw!
@@ecospider5
Hi
What do you ask for when you go in the store? What's it called?
@@jude7321 a welding blanket
His enthusiasm is contagious do what you love to do!
I was literally looking for this everywhere! You're amazing!
Brilliant video! By-the-way, carbon felt can be bought in small quantities (12x12 inch) on Amazon.
Is it welding blankets?
Yep I got a smaller piece for a fiver on Amazon
I came, I saw and got inspired! loved it!
awesome!!! that's so good to hear - thanks for sharing that mate
Veni, Vidi, Inspirati ! Amavi!
@@DreadX10 valde bonum lol
@@ThinkingandTinkering Having a bit of trouble translating that last word/acronym.....Ridens Magna
@@mitch190 Was referring to "lol"... ;-)
WOW! That is one of the best things I've watched in absolutely ages! So incredibly useful!
I just love people like you. You understand the purpose of knowledge. Knowledge was meant to be shared!!! To unite mankind. I appreciate you man!
really great work! wish I knew about this back in my mountain cabin days
it would make an awesome camping stove
An idea, fire tornado. Rather than just a straight tubular chimney, split the pipe and offset the two parts a bit laterally parallel with the cut. The inlet air will generate a vortex, twisting the flame and may result in better air/fuel mixing.
Love your suggestion, why not have a go & let us know how you get on please.
Southampton
Are you saying to cut the pipe in half long ways with a small gap like this.....( )....?
Please rephrase your idea, I don't understand. Thank you.
That is bloody brilliant!! Your videos are very much appreciated and important. helps people educate themselves by watching the video. Well done.👍
Your timeless videos are instant classics and will help inspire generations of creators and creations.
That was inspiring; I'm glancing sideways at my insoles as I type.
lololol - those poor shoes lol
That's fricking brilliant! I mean, all your videos are so (surprisingly*) interesting! I just love it!
* Surprisingly-because it takes a certain type of viewer, I guess 😄 I just love learning stuff!
Wow, thank you mate and yes it does take a certain kind of person to appreciate - if that's saying something good or bad about the community here I a not sure lol - I joke lol
@@ThinkingandTinkering Only time will tell 😂
@@mitch190 4 of us here. You are not alone 😂
@@ThinkingandTinkering There is a lot of smoke coming out of the metal tube in the end. What happened there?
So simple, yet truly brilliant! Love this so much 🙂
Just found your channel and wow glad i did what an amazing place to learn about fire and wicking just what i was looking for. Thank you good sir much appreciated!
Funny thing is we've been using that material for light for a very long time in Coleman lanterns.
We just have to put on the little bag and light it. It then burns and leaves a delicate little carbon bag that wicks the gas burning in a uniform controlled burn but one touch or heavy breeze and time for a new bag. I never thought of doing this though.
Pretty darn safe to use inside.
So,is this safe to burn indoors ?
I tried solder wick, it doesn't work on vegetable oil but works great on lamp oil. It will last forever.
This is brilliant. I'm new to the channel and am already impressed. Well done.
Love this tinkerer's enthusiasm and excitement!! He loves figuring these things out!
Amazing as usual. I wonder if I can use those activated carbon pellets as a wick? Guess there is only one way to find out!
Fiberglass is something else that also has long been used in that fashion. It'll wick a liquid, but not readily burn either. It also can take heat fairly well, so it is used to wick fuels used in gas heaters or lamps. And there are videos on UA-cam showing how to make simple greenhouse heaters putting the wick through a copper coil so that only the vapor emitted through a small pinhole at the bottom of the loop is what is burned, and those are fairly efficient.
Do you think carbon fiber will work out as a wick to?
Any link to, how to make simple greenhouse heaters on UA-cam? Thanks
@@ucmeytsc7302 Ummm,,,Here!!
I would think fiberglass in the air from burning would be a bad thing. Too many other materials to use.
In all that you do, be aware of what you use, how you use it, and how it affects you and yours. 💗 (And the availability, plausibility, and effectiveness of alternatives)
😎✌️
I wish I'd found this channel YEARS ago... Thank you for sharing your love of learning & doing.
Cheers mate
I love your channel and your personality. Your energy is motivating:) Thank you!
You, sir have a knack of taking stuff I already know and twisting it to a new angle!
Please do not stop!
lol - that is awesome to know mate - cheers
The old brass torches with the little pump on on the side, that were filled with gasoline and used by people to braze and solder had a wick which was assisted by air pressure to the tip.
I am (past tense..was) a collector of all those plumbing torches. Quite unusual, I have around 70 all different, and have never lit one! Retired now, kids don't want them, so time to sell.
@@chuckredd9131 Too bad the kids don't want them. They are the perfect torch should supply lines go down. They can be cleaned, repaired and kept in use indefinitely. There are probably quite a few people in remote areas using similar ones as a practical first choice. China makes new ones out of steel and they are made very bare bones. However old yours are they are not obsolete. Check eBay they are still in demand. Brass ones being the most beautiful. Jewelers still use a version for working silver which is pressurized with a foot bellows that bubble air through gasoline and down a tube to a torch head.
@@drakedorosh9332 Appreciate the info., your time & help!!!
I just found your channel and I'm enjoying it immensely! Also, your website is very cool. I needed you when I was 10. Better late than never!
Awesome. So simple and so effective. I’ve seen the tea light videos, but this carbon felt and vegetable oil is on another level.
I am into tent stoves and extremely small stoves for super insulated cabins/houses this has great potential.
awesome mate - I am glad to hear that - I figure it would make a great portable stove particularly if you used veg oil - that not bursting into flames bit has to be good for a stove used in a tent
Hi, You may wish to consider all the combustion gas that will be released into your tent.
@@timtelemark907 Such stoves work with tent roofs
@@timtelemark907 No I will always have a flue.
⚠️ Warning important! ⚠️
You really should have said that the heat resistant carbon fibre felt is highly toxic if burnt.⚠️
I used to work in a factory where we manufactured this!
All the heat resistant variants use a heat resistant binder that is extremely toxic when an open flame is applied!
This only applies to the heat resistant variants!
I really hope you mention this in a future video!
Always good content and great ideas though Robert. ☺️
Thanks 👍
I was going to ask about this. Thanks for sharing.
The carbon fibre felt isn't burning. It's vegetable oil that's burning. The 'wick' is simply supplying the oil to the flame.
@@stephengirling7859 Its still in contact with an open flame!
I would definatly use caution!
What toxic reaction is caused as mentioned?
I like your enthusiasm ,thanks for sharing your finds , Ant from Wales UK .
Superb video …. Encapsulating the spirit of UA-cam brilliantly ❤
Awesome 👏
Thank you! Cheers!
I didn't know wicking vegetable oil was hard. I have been lighting Diyas all my life with Ghee and vegetable oil
That isn't the (primary) point. This video was about wicks that would last longer than cotton and that could also handle vegetable oil.
This man is amazing. I've learned more real, true, helpful things from this man and a few like him that's way more valuable than most of the BS I was made to learn in school that I HAD TO KNOW CAUSE I'LL USE IT IN LIFE but NEVER HAVE. Thank u Rob. I watch your videos with my kids older and young. We try urr builds out and it's a fun, teaching and learning time. Power, Internet, Etc is never guarnteed, ways to stay warm and not die is. Please make videos always. U have me and my familys full support, Subscription, and attention.
Public schools prime the masses to work in supermarkets. They want us just smart enough to run the machines, and just dumb enough to not realise how badly we're getting fucked
Very interesting. I'm usually looking for little things to tinker with. I'm going to have a little go at this. Thanks.
I freaking love it!
I wonder if you could get even further capillary or thermal syphon action if you use a small internal diameter?
I honestly don't know - fancy giving it a go and letting us all know?
The diameter of the microscopic passageways and pores in the material does affect the height you can draw something to - the smaller the better - but it also reduces the flow in each micro-tube. If you need to deliver more fuel in total, you would need to increase the cross sectional area of material used. But those two factors are independent - changing the overall diameter won't affect what happens at the microscopic level, just how much of it. Now if you compress the material, that might be a different story.
But as they say - all the theory in the world can be undone by a single experiment. ;)
@@DFPercush Hardwood briquettes have a nano capillary containment if annealed.
You are an absolute legend with what you do. So can you do a video on the best way to heat your home for cheap? As a guy who’s overwhelmed by the videos and ideas you throw out. I’m so lost. Maybe you are just proving what can be done but I’m thinking “can I save money on my next heating bill “ with cooking oil and a plant pot haha
I do doubt this would be safe to use in an occupied enclosed space. I wonder if this could be scaled to work with a heat exchanger, and feed a baseboard type radiator in the house.
@@RowdyElectron you can lead the soot outside via a flexible pipe and use old engine oil. Love your exchanger radiator idea
@@eco_logic excellent idea. I also saw other comments where others seemed to have success stacking more pots (with spaces between) that might have some affect on the output of heat and soot. I’ll try to do these things myself and report back if I can do so in a timely manner.
@@RowdyElectronsorry read your comment again. So this gives off stuff that’s harmful? I was thinking about using it in my living room? Guessing it would burn the house down or something crazy? Not as straight as straight forward as this
@@nursebank carbon monoxide, it is deadly
Thanks for the videos, they are great! - a bit of smoke coming out of the chimney on the last one...whitish smoke.
I very much enjoyed your video. Your enthusiasm shines
Very interesting, thanks! I have one question though - why do people put the flower pot on top of their tea lights (and in this instance forever wick), as far as I can see, all it does is create a heat sink that will make the heat output lag what it would be otherwise. I've tried it before and the flower pot doesn't seem to cause any significant draught that might improve combustion completeness - and in this video you can still clearly see smoke coming out of the top, unlike when the narrow tube was employed.
I believe it's turning more of the available energy from both convection and visible light into radiated infra-red concentrating the heat in a more usable area rather than being allowed to go directly to the ceiling.
That's cool. I could see how that could be made into standardized wick products. Wicking kerosene heaters are popular as backup heating option where I live. Vegetable oil is used in liquid "candles". There was a decorative product sold here in the US as a liquid candle "kit". I've made them as emergency candles when the power has gone out. Take a small glass jar and put veg oil in it (half full or so). Get a piece of thin plastic (like from a coffee can lid) and cut it into a disk so that it will comfortably fit in the jar leaving plenty of room to the sides of the jar (only want to cover half or less of the surface area of the oil). Punch a hole in the middle of the disk. Then you cut a short strip (one and a half inches or so.) of cotton (perhaps carbon felt) from an old t-shirt or something, roll lengthwise and run it through the hole leaving half an inch or so on one side, which will be the top side. Then you put the disc and wick on the surface of the oil so it floats short wick side up. Key is to gently push it down so the oil covers the plastic disk, and it will. There you go! A liquid "candle... Light the wick once it becomes saturated. As the oil burns down the wick stays floating on top.
nice - thank you for posting that mate
I just found you, I love what I see! This particular one is really interesting to me, since I have been burning vegetable (and fish) oil for years! I do living history, and it turns out our rather smart forebears used a cotton wick in lots of oils as far back as (at least) the Bronze Age! Just a simple wick in a shallow dish of oil. Later they added water under the oil in a deeper dish to both prevent oil drips from the edge the wick lay against, and to keep the bottom of the dish cool. Coincidentally it self extinguishes. So the idea of an everlasting wick is marvelous to me, and I think won’t be too obvious from 5 feet or so…. 😊
Genuis in simple things is *always* welcome. Thank you, Sir.
This video is gonna save so many lives! If you want to be prepared for anything this winter, get some friggin' carbon filter mesh! Better than freezing to death, and the stuff is too cheep not to have on hand.
There is a thing called BTU's. This will not keep you warm
@@davefarley4318 God you are arrogant, you think you're the only one that knows about physics and BTU? What's stopping people from having multiple wicks? You could easily heat your house with enough of these. Dummy.
@Daniël Well, central heating NEEDS a blower fan which requires AC electricity to operate. Even if you have fuel, the furnace can not operate if the power goes out. So when there's an extended power outage, having a little heater that burns nearly any fuel to warm up a small space could very well keep you alive.
@Daniël I already have central heating, I don't live in a shed. But if you haven't heard it's war in Europe plus a global energy crisis. Enjoy your central heating when your power goes out this winter.
@Daniël Are you on drugs? What does the Netherlands have to do with this? And there absolutely is a global energy crisis, do you live under a rock?
The crisis began last winter, I payed close to 2000eruro per month for heating. This winter will be the same, all we can hope for is that there will be no power outage. I'm in Sweden, here we have insane high quality infra structure and we have all the money in the world, but we are not safe and nor are you.
The fact that you laugh about this says a lot about your personality.
I also wonder if you could just change the Wick in a standard greenhouse heater with carbon felt then run your greenhouse heater on veg oil.
WOW! This guy is incredible! I hope that he is teaching somewhere! The world needs science that's practically applied!
Excellent video!!
great knowledge of science and how you apply to practical applications topped with a sense of humour
I like the idea of this, especially with fuel prices on the rise this winter! One concern I have about these terracotta heaters: what concern is there with exhaust? I wouldnt think you'd need to worry as much about venting like a wood fire, as the oil is carbonizing far less, but as noted, w/o chimney it seems sooty. Any good ideas?
I place a quarter on the inner pot's hole and a terracotta small dish over the outer pot's hole. Soot stays in the pots.
Use a taller spacer to set yards dots pot on and place the drain dish over the hole. Pot will collect the soot. The heat will radiate through the the pot. I will be using bricks on both sides and across top like they did with candle. Its the bricks that will absorb and raideat the heat. With the added air flow I'd think it would burn cleaner. I have COPD so it won't take long for me to know if I'm wrong.
Haha, I actually mentioned/recommended carbon felt to a person commenting on one of your prior videos--like yesterday or the day before.
If you combine the principles of using those vortex type stoves (two cans of a different size within each other, with offset holes on bottom and/or top), insulating the stove and using copper to conduct heat, using multiple carbon felt wicks, and using a chimney, you can create a burner that burns various different waxes quite efficiently and cleanly.
This is exciting because wax contains a lot of energy within it, and in a very stable, light, easily transported form. The issue with burning a lot of wax at a time and hotly, is that it has a tendency to sputter out of the container, which can be dangerous.
Could I use the cooker hood carbon.
@@mitch190 I will give rockwool a go, it's worked well with alcohol stoves, thanks.
lol awesome mate - love your ideas - cheers
Anyone try braided copper desoldering wick???🤔
And by the way. You are just a natural teacher. Thank you.
Just brought a shed load of carbon felt. Thankyou so much! Imagine a storm lantern wick never needing to be replaced!
Ah now that is interesting. I've been using carbon felt for years as a wick for meths stoves, but hadn't considered it for oil. I'd like to make an externally vented version for use in a camper van. It would be better than the conventional diesel van and truck heaters because it doesn't need an electric feed for a glow plug. Very, very interesting.
a methamphetamine stove? lol
@@JonnnyStorm methylated spirits, like heet or rubbing alcohol.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture ahhh thanks for the clarification, meths stoves and camper vans in the same paragraph usually means something different...:D
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture rubbing alcohol (isopropyl) burns sooty. HEET (gas additive) burns cleanly as well as denatured alcohol. If you wanna see a simple and tough alcohol stove, look up the "RUCAS alcohol stove" here on UA-cam!!!😁👍🏻 I can boil 500mL of water in less than 5 minutes with less than 2 ounces of denatured alcohol!!!
I used to do all my cooking and boil kettle s etc with used chip frying oil using home braided flax wicks poking out holes in the bottom of an inverted spam can sitting in a saucepan of oil.
It was a bit sooty, and the wicks did slowly burn up.
Thanks for the excellent demonstrations of how to improve things.
cheers mate
Hi great video, I use left over kevler, with 80 mm copper pipe at end, I put oil in the tray with the pot on top. With three small pieces of clay stuck to tray as feet
Massive thank you for this, been playing with 0000 fine wire wool to do this (failed) for the vegetable oil / flower pot heater.
This looks amazing! I'm definitely going to get my hands on these materials and try it out!
Question, can you do this in a closed environment? Is this not polutting the air within the house? I see a lot of black smoke coming out of the pipe at the end of the video, is this safe to do at home?
That is what I was wondering too. I think that steam may be a large component of what we see. I wonder what the long term effect would be burning this inside. Probably similar to a few kerosene lanterns going or a cigarette smoker (be prepared to see yellowing on your curtains and walls haha).
I put used engine oil in a tin can and had a wick on the side burning. I put the can inside a wood stove and left it. About 30 minutes later I thought hmm, it's warm in here. The flame from the wick had spread across the surface of the oil and was burning putting out at least 2000w of heat probably more. I observed it and eventually it burned all the oil and didn't go out of control. The point is that if the wick falls over it may take a while but would probably set the oil on fire although not immediately. Interesting demo as always, thanks! 😄❤️👍😎
yes it would but it would depend on the size of the flame and the mass of the oil - first the oil has to get hot enough to fume and it would then be the fumes that burnt - like all fire it is not something to take lightly or ignore
Do you think that using jam jars to hold the oil and drilling a hole for the fixture into the screw top jam jar lid would make for something safer?
@@annebeignatborde1832 this is what I was planning
@@annebeignatborde1832 Would the build up of heat cause the jam jar glass to break ? maybe a can would be better.
@@slogger1slogger108 I don't know but the glass of jam jars (at least the ones I have) is pretty thick and resists being sterilized in a pressure cooker. The weak point would be the lid getting hot but I reckon there are ways to avoid that. For example by keeping the flame high enough from the lid.
But I'm no expert so I would advise extensive testing outdoors first.
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than you for sharing Robert, great video and advice. will test for sure
Fantastic demonstration. Thanks for sharing your experiments and joy for life.
It reminds me if the old oil lamps that my grandmother use to have when I was a boy, used on ships and the like. Run on whale oil. Even at that time, the wicking material seemed to last quite a long time. The lamps were quite bright, and put off a decent amount of heat as well. Glass around the flame, and a metal base with a whick and screw to advance it in the lamp. Weren't as necessary once we got more advanced lighting, and with whale oil being less available. Especially after LEDs. But they were handy for their time, and definitely worked in a pinch. Imagine what we could make now with similar tech and advanced materials.
indeed mate and that style of lamp was called an argand lamp - we covered that in video 1678
I have 2 of these. Absolutely love them still. Shelf life way beyond any battery. Mine have had no maintenance in 25 years of my ownership. They only require shelf space. Needed them 3 weeks ago.
Still buy those, Feurhand, great piece of kit, use paraffin, or similar, if this could wick vegetable oil in one it would be good as paraffin burning doesnt smell that nice.
Those lamps with whale oil created the night shift. No lighting before that was bright enough to work by safely.
Crazy as this sounds to people, I have a friend who owns a gallon of whale oil. It is too precious to burn, of course. He uses it by the miniscule droplet as a lubricant for a collection of meticulously maintained antique scientific instruments and time pieces he owns. He has a wonderful large brass jeweled fulcrum balance beam from the 1800's, in it's original glass cabinet. The man is a eclectic genius. He was a chemist before he retired but has his hands into many things. There is an award winning orchid cultivar he bred named after him. Plane pilot, historian, world traveler, conservationist, music lover... Make friends with these type of people. They are passionate, interested in our world and bring something special to it for us all. best wishes
I'd love to see you make one that is big enough to heat a room. Possibly three smaller ones with a larger pot to cover them. I'd be curious what it would take to do that with minimal upkeep in changing fuel.
I would think THAT one would heat a room. The pot and chimney would kick out savage heat, but I would want to vent the exhaust gasses outside.
especially with a second pot on top over the existing pot to create a double wall and subsequently venturi turbine effect
Make sure to get a carbon monoxide alarm!
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Was impressed by this, and casting about for materials onhand, I did a test using some foil from a pie pan and some charcloth made from denim. When I put a drop of olive oil on it, was immediately wicked up, and so I rolled it, wrapped it and put it in a puddle. Zero smoke until it went out, whereupon the smell was a bit much. Since old jeans are much larger than any use cases, I figure I could roll my strips into copper tubing and then char it. Next to experiment with various diameters and lengths.
Good point, if the carbon mesh is what I'm thinking and the carbon is doing the wicking there's no reason one can't make a suitable substitute. Maybe even using metal window screen as a substitute for the foil in your first experiment.
May need to make the hole in the planter bigger. There was still smoke coming out the top even with the extended metal chimney.
Personally, I made an alcohol candle using a tea light candle holder (about the same size as a shot glass) and the cut off bottom of an aluminum soda can that happens to fit perfectly over the glass. Drilled about a 1/4 inch (4-5 mm) hole in the middle of the can bottom, then used a piece of pink fiber glass insulation that I rolled into a thin strip and fed through the hole to use as the wick. I use 90% isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol as the fuel. Depending on the size of the flame it will burn 2-4 hours on average. Also, if you blow the flame out before all of the alcohol burns, the fiberglass will last pretty much forever. However, if you let the alcohol burn out completely, it will "melt" (burn) the fiberglass. If that happens, just pull a bit more through and you're good to go. It takes such a small amount to make the wick. I got a couple chunks of the fiberglass insulation out of a trash dumpster in a new home construction job site, that will probably last me a lifetime. 👍😁
Having more space between the pot bottom and the bottom surface will help to bring up more oxygen to assist in a better burn.
@Kev Fit Give it a shot. I have no idea if it will work being as that wmo is a much denser liquid. But there's only one way to find out. 👍😀
@@CelticDruidess1 Yes and no. You still need an exhaust hole large enough to let the extra air pass through. It will only take in as much air as it can let out. With the possible exception of it being some kind of pressurized system.
@@CondescendingOaf exactly
@@CelticDruidess1 oops, that last reply was meant for Kev
Excellent friend! Thank you so much! I'll be tinkering with this one 😉
This was amazing and I am going to try it. Thank you for sharing.