I use oil lamps a lot, and love that you are teaching this to those who may need it some day. I have found that a larger container can be filled mostly with water, then about 3/4" oil, and soak the string, then insert it. This absolutely prevents any fire starting if the container is breached or knocked over. With 5 cats in my house, or camping outside in wind and rain, this is the perfect set up!
The idea is a good one. BUT...you deserve the prize for pouring oil FROM a 1 inch hole INTO a 1/8 inch hole without spilling a drop. Way to go, man. Stay safe, and keep breathin'.
An advantage of using vegetable oils rather than lamp oils is that if the lamp is knocked over, the vegetable oils are not as highly flammable as the lamp oil.
Love this. Mom is an old school Greek woman. She has her little Jesus mantle in the corner of the wall in the room. Same idea... has a little glass bowl filled with salt about 3/4 full. She has this little tin covered cork float with a hole in the middle like you made with the finishing nail and you pull the wick up through. Simply place it in the bowl with about 1/2" of olive oil in it and it floats on the surface like a bobber. Light it up and it burns for a good couple of days. The salt keeps it from burning all of the way down and self extinguishes when empty. Pretty cool. Thank you once again.
My grandma prepared it and using it daily after the sunset. Nice remember because of you. Nowadays so many people don't know.. Thanks for teaching for this generation.
Love this video. Especially the small candle...have been shocked because I have never heard or seen anyone doing candles like this before. I use to make the candle wax kind years ago....and that's all I knew until about an hour ago....whda knew?? Thanks again!
Great video. I remember back in the 80's when MRE Tabasco bottles were first included and I started making small candles using those bottles. I made them the with candle wick with a thin wire inner support, probably lead back then. haha I like the MRE bottle because I can put the cap back on with the wick inside and when I open the cap, the wick pops out. Like you, I use foil to limit the flame to 1/2" and that will give me about 70 minutes of fire. I figure 60 minutes of burn time for every 1/8th ounce of liquid fuel. I keep these in Altoids tin, BUT I have learned that you should dip the caps in wax like the old iodine water tablet bottles the military had, because I have had ONE come loose and leak oil into the tin. My brother even keeps one on his key chain that he has inside a rubber latex type tube of some kind. I really enjoy these type of videos and how to's. Keep up the great work.
yes in the 80s we used anything, I used an old teapot put the wick in the spout but i wrapped the foil round the wick like a sleeve and used old oil, it smelt but was handy when low on money lol
I made one but used a mason jar, and used acetone- lasted much longer, the wind was 14 mph and it didn't blow out, and wow I love it. Make sure with acetone you use in the open and not in a closed room!
I have never seen a man work with such tiny objeçts with his hands then you mentioned you don't need a big long wick & childishly I was on the floor rolling with laughter.
very simple ,he is borned to be a teacher.he explained,slowly willing to transmete his knowledge..bravissimo friend. regards from an old greek. i know your father leonardo da vinci......
Good, informative video. I have made several of these. I have found a better container to use. A one shot liquor bottle with a metallic screw-on lid works wonderfly. ( Sometimes called an Airplane Bottle .)
You have a very steady hand pouring that oil, my friend. I would think that a compact candle like that would be considered portable. Did you remove the brush from the lid and cap the bottle to transport it? If it would seal and not leak, it would be a nice little camping/ backpacking candle. Thanks for sharing.
@Lemon Lee You'd really have a problem with smudge pots which are 5 gallon metal buckets of diesel fuel placed throughout freezing crop fields & ignited to keep the crops from being frostbitten or frozen.
The point of using the nail polish bottle is how shallow it is. Vegetable oil is much thicker than petroleum, and will not soak up more than an inch of wick at most. Ancient oil lamps were like covered saucers, wide and very flat.
Ohhh! My gosh!!! Such a very informative tools to save electricity I’ve love to learn anything recycle from the old time as a mini lantern as this very interesting economical techniques thank you so much for your valuable inspirational ideas!!!!💕👏🏼💕👏🏼💕💚💚💚
I like prepped, survival, and apocalyptic survival ideas from Sci-fi to real life so it started with one video I shared and received this video shard back. I keep an eye out for other survival ideas like that you may have. Thanks for sharing! Hope you don't mind if I share this idea with a reference to your video on my own one day. 🤗❤️👍🏾💯
Zip Zenac when the grid goes down you will be wishing you knew more than turning on your light switch. Zip it! Unless you have something positive to share 💛
Thank you for producing this excellent tutorial, making an economical, oil burning lantern which will fit the UCO Candle Lanterns is something that I'd like to do due to the very high cost of their replacement candles here in the UK. Being able to add something like Ylang Ylang oil to the olive oil should give off a lovely scent (any oil can be added, whichever scent the maker chooses).
Nice and you could add a drop or 2 of Lavender essential oil and make it smell good maybe guess I'll try it and see I make soap haven't bought bath soap in 10yrs can convert to laundry soap it's always good to know how to make your own products. Everyone should have a couple months of supplies stored up just incase, water tablets stuff like that. Be prepared dried goods ect
I do the same thing with Walmart spice jars next time you go to Walmart go down the spice aisle and look for the Walmart brand of organic spices( clear glass about 2in tall holds 1.8 Oz) and they come in little jars with a metal lid and they are just perfect for making these and the lamp will easily last all night Just make sure in the top of the lid to punch a tiny hole with a push pin so that you don't build up vapor pressure inside the glass jar or else the wick will burn much more furiously than is necessary
If you wet the tip of the wick after you insert it in the bottle. The oil will then instantly soak the whole wick. It makes the oil rise up to the tip faster, just damp the tip now don't go soaking it.
@@athomas2k8 the main body of oil must only be at maximum of 2 inches away from the flame. The closer the better. Dont worry the flame wont ignite the veg oil. Also using cotton like those in swabs or cotton balls works better at wicking than string wicks.
@@graceoverreligion2509 I bought a length of wicking from the craft store and used vegetable oil. The results were totally disappointing as the lamp, which is a used jar, simply will not stay lit..... Vegetable oil has not given me any results sadly.
@@henryottis295 same. Cotton wrapped matchstick works best for me. I just peel the cotton and wrap it unto the matchstick and hang the matchstick to a diy stand (those spring looking wick stand you make from a craft wire).
If you use many of these candles. Does using vegetable oil (cooking oil) stain the walls and ceiling of the room? Similarly to how fryers would stain the walls of a kitchen? And whats the odour like during burning? Will the room smell of a fryer too?
Watched the video.. this is probably the easiest oil lamp making I've ever seen and it's the cutest little thing..I feel I can make one maybe I can make one for me and one for my daughter she has a young child..it seems safer than the big candles she has
Thank you for sharing this awesome cool video .haha! my favorite nail polish evergreen lol. now i know . I have a lot of these nail polish bottles. I can recycle
You did a beautiful job of pouring that oil into a very small opening. For myself, I think I'd put some oil in a small pitcher for filling the bottle. Thank you for mentioning not to make the aluminum foil too thick. I probably would have done that thinking more is better. Clearly not the case.
Hey man thanks for the video. I have a question.. My wicks are burning a little too fast and im having to pull more wick every 3-4 mins. Any idea on what could I be doing wrong? Thanks and welcome home.
I too shall search my daughter's bathroom for fingernail polish bottles, will use the wife and mother in-laws collection too. this lighting will be usefull when they find out and kick my rump into the backyard doghouse ! stuff can go for 5 a bottle, but I like the video thanks!
I seriously need assistance. I have made 2 and neither of them have a flame to speak of. The wick will light and burn down to the metal cap and continue to burn. I am using 100% cotton yarn and vegetable oil. What could I possibly be doing wrong? Any help would be great!! Thank you!
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I use oil lamps a lot, and love that you are teaching this to those who may need it some day. I have found that a larger container can be filled mostly with water, then about 3/4" oil, and soak the string, then insert it. This absolutely prevents any fire starting if the container is breached or knocked over. With 5 cats in my house, or camping outside in wind and rain, this is the perfect set up!
The idea is a good one. BUT...you deserve the prize for pouring oil FROM a 1 inch hole INTO a 1/8 inch hole without spilling a drop. Way to go, man. Stay safe, and keep breathin'.
An advantage of using vegetable oils rather than lamp oils is that if the lamp is knocked over, the vegetable oils are not as highly flammable as the lamp oil.
True. The flame actually dies if it gets flooded with oil.
@ Lol what? Sunflower oil does have a flashpoint of 270°C to 300°C while petroleum is at about 55°C to 70°C.
I'll just buy whichever one is cheaper....but I always have vegetable oil in case I need to make a extra candle when the power goes out 😁
Tiny Molotov cocktails!
Can someone give some uses for a candle this small, I have a LOT of nail polish bottles!
Love this. Mom is an old school Greek woman. She has her little Jesus mantle in the corner of the wall in the room. Same idea... has a little glass bowl filled with salt about 3/4 full. She has this little tin covered cork float with a hole in the middle like you made with the finishing nail and you pull the wick up through. Simply place it in the bowl with about 1/2" of olive oil in it and it floats on the surface like a bobber. Light it up and it burns for a good couple of days. The salt keeps it from burning all of the way down and self extinguishes when empty. Pretty cool. Thank you once again.
thank you for sharing!
Finding this hard to visualise. Doesn’t the salt dissolve in the oil ?
Imma use that for my prayer corner too, Thank you.
@@roseskyschmolesky
I am wondering the same as well
My grandma prepared it and using it daily after the sunset. Nice remember because of you. Nowadays so many people don't know.. Thanks for teaching for this generation.
AWESOME!!! I just watched a lady use a crisco jar to make a 72 DAY candle!!
Me too!!!!! lol
So did I, the day before yesterday ;)
Seen it too
Me, too! Haha
😀 me too!
Thank you - recycled, pretty and effective, a modern take on a lamp that's been used for thousands of years :)
I don't know how I found this video but I'm so glad I did. I now know what to do with all my empty nail polish bottles. 🤣 Thank you
Riiiiggghhhtttt and I have been tossing mine is n the trash 🤦🏾well when you know better you do better. I will be saving them for now on.
I know what you can do with your nail Polish bottles Emma. Give them to me lol 😁. After all we might be related.
For real! I'm a nail tech. The empty polish bottles are taking over! 🤣
I know, I've been making waterproof matches with clear nail varnish. I've saved 4 empty bottles already.
I'll make 4 of these, and gift 2 to some female prepper friends.
Nice to see someone actually putting vegetables to good use, for the first in their existence.
Love this video. Especially the small candle...have been shocked because I have never heard or seen anyone doing candles like this before. I use to make the candle wax kind years ago....and that's all I knew until about an hour ago....whda knew?? Thanks again!
Great idea. This is from Florida where hurricanes and storms guarantee power outages routinely. I'd use wider bottles and make a few ahead of time.
Me too. Baby food jars would work great I bet!
Never thought of portable, refilible containers for a candle, Thank you! This inspires an idea for my jank lighter!
Great video. I remember back in the 80's when MRE Tabasco bottles were first included and I started making small candles using those bottles. I made them the with candle wick with a thin wire inner support, probably lead back then. haha
I like the MRE bottle because I can put the cap back on with the wick inside and when I open the cap, the wick pops out. Like you, I use foil to limit the flame to 1/2" and that will give me about 70 minutes of fire. I figure 60 minutes of burn time for every 1/8th ounce of liquid fuel.
I keep these in Altoids tin, BUT I have learned that you should dip the caps in wax like the old iodine water tablet bottles the military had, because I have had ONE come loose and leak oil into the tin.
My brother even keeps one on his key chain that he has inside a rubber latex type tube of some kind. I really enjoy these type of videos and how to's. Keep up the great work.
+wjf213 I live those little Tabasco bottles
I like Tabasco on my eggs
yes in the 80s we used anything, I used an old teapot put the wick in the spout but i wrapped the foil round the wick like a sleeve and used old oil, it smelt but was handy when low on money lol
I made one but used a mason jar, and used acetone- lasted much longer, the wind was 14 mph and it didn't blow out, and wow I love it. Make sure with acetone you use in the open and not in a closed room!
That's pretty cool! My youngest daughter loves anything miniature. This would be right up her alley!
Excellent!
Oh my gosh! I'm obsessed with miniatures!!! Does she have some pretty cute things?
I have never seen a man work with such tiny objeçts with his hands then you mentioned you don't need a big long wick & childishly I was on the floor rolling with laughter.
very simple ,he is borned to be a teacher.he explained,slowly willing to transmete his knowledge..bravissimo friend. regards from an old greek. i know your father leonardo da vinci......
Great! I have made lots of lamps like this over the years. Bacon grease works too sometimes with just a wick in the open grease
Waste of bacon grease.😏
A brilliant idea and never seen this before. I better start making some before we have predicted power cuts.
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Good, informative video. I have made several of these. I have found a better container to use. A one shot liquor bottle with a metallic screw-on lid works wonderfly. ( Sometimes called an Airplane Bottle .)
Yeah it's nice when those are made of glass! Sometimes now they're made of plastic unfortunately.
Going to try this
Small Fruit Jars Work Great As Well,and About 3-4 Ounces..Last Forever
Does the shape matter?
If u use a shot bottle just make sure the bottle is GLASS ONLY.
So many minute things about small candle.Thank u so much.
I take it from your introduction that you have bravely served our country (🇺🇸🇺🇸) THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!
Really good use for cooking oils that have gone rancid. You can also add a few drops of essential oil to sweeten it up. Great video!
Very well presented and now i can recycle all those glass bottles i use to throw away by making oil candles🤗
Very nice candle . I can use this candle in worship no need to buy long candles
Thanks! I have a million empty essential oil candles. Perfect use for one. Thanks, great video!
Awesome video. Thank you so much. I’m going to try this candle. In the North, we get blizzards, and when the power goes out, it’s really dark.
"Dad, have you seen my green nail polish?...why is it so dark in here?"
ha ha. Thank you for stopping by!
She prob didn't need that color polish. It's not en vouge right now. Lol
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I just choked on my spit reading that comment lmao.
You have a very steady hand pouring that oil, my friend. I would think that a compact candle like that would be considered portable. Did you remove the brush from the lid and cap the bottle to transport it? If it would seal and not leak, it would be a nice little camping/ backpacking candle. Thanks for sharing.
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I'd like to see how you washed out that little bottle.
Jacob Opstad I just use some dish soap with hot water and a Q-tip
Ohh, a Q-tip! Of course! :)
@Lemon Lee You'd really have a problem with smudge pots which are 5 gallon metal buckets of diesel fuel placed throughout freezing crop fields & ignited to keep the crops from being frostbitten or frozen.
Nail polish remover then wash , maybe
Jacob Opstad
Uhhhhh, nail polish remover 🤷🏻♀️
U "light"up my life.excellent tips.thank you
The point of using the nail polish bottle is how shallow it is. Vegetable oil is much thicker than petroleum, and will not soak up more than an inch of wick at most. Ancient oil lamps were like covered saucers, wide and very flat.
Ohhh! My gosh!!! Such a very informative tools to save electricity I’ve love to learn anything recycle from the old time as a mini lantern as this very interesting economical techniques thank you so much for your valuable inspirational ideas!!!!💕👏🏼💕👏🏼💕💚💚💚
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! let there be light,
thanks for this video and your simple and clear explaination
Wow everything is recyclable!
I like prepped, survival, and apocalyptic survival ideas from Sci-fi to real life so it started with one video I shared and received this video shard back. I keep an eye out for other survival ideas like that you may have. Thanks for sharing! Hope you don't mind if I share this idea with a reference to your video on my own one day. 🤗❤️👍🏾💯
In my country they've had lamps like this for over 600 years
In ours too😊
Zip Zenac when the grid goes down you will be wishing you knew more than turning on your light switch. Zip it! Unless you have something positive to share 💛
@@nodigBKMiche I second this
@Zip Zenac One day sore. You can not stop progress.
@Dion St. Michael Thank you. Your observation is wise. GOD bless & have a great day!
Ciao,
Grazie per questa tua "piccola" ma utilissima idea!
Lascio un cordiale saluto e.. Buon Anno 2022.
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What a fantastic idea. Well I'm off to make one right now. Thanks mate nice one.
that is a darn cute candle
Thanks for shedding some light on the dark winter nights
Thank you for this survival technique.
Wow thank you so much! What a nice thing to know God 🙏 bless you brother
Thank you, God bless you and your family 👪
Thanks friend. Just for curiosity, what happens if I make a thick fold of aluminium?
thank you for stopping by nothing will really change if you make the aluminum thicker it'll work good either way
@@jiujitsu2000 thanks bro
@@JemacMauricio anytime!!
This is so cool. I have some pretty little bottles, just knew they'd be good for something!
I save jars all the time, never knowing what to do with most of them....Now I know 😁👍😁 I'd definitely make a few for power outages 😁😁😁
Awsome bro! This goes directly to my prepper notebook for Apocalypse
Thank you for producing this excellent tutorial, making an economical, oil burning lantern which will fit the UCO Candle Lanterns is something that I'd like to do due to the very high cost of their replacement candles here in the UK.
Being able to add something like Ylang Ylang oil to the olive oil should give off a lovely scent (any oil can be added, whichever scent the maker chooses).
Thanks! Shall buy Ylang Ylang oil!
@@pjmnash That's my favourite essential oil.
Nice and you could add a drop or 2 of Lavender essential oil and make it smell good maybe guess I'll try it and see I make soap haven't bought bath soap in 10yrs can convert to laundry soap it's always good to know how to make your own products. Everyone should have a couple months of supplies stored up just incase, water tablets stuff like that. Be prepared dried goods ect
Good tutorial brother, thanks for posting.
I do the same thing with Walmart spice jars next time you go to Walmart go down the spice aisle and look for the Walmart brand of organic spices( clear glass about 2in tall holds 1.8 Oz) and they come in little jars with a metal lid and they are just perfect for making these and the lamp will easily last all night
Just make sure in the top of the lid to punch a tiny hole with a push pin so that you don't build up vapor pressure inside the glass jar or else the wick will burn much more furiously than is necessary
A wire bread tie around the aluminum on the bottle neck could be good.
If you wet the tip of the wick after you insert it in the bottle. The oil will then instantly soak the whole wick. It makes the oil rise up to the tip faster, just damp the tip now don't go soaking it.
Really? Wet the tip and it brings the oil up? I believe u ....just making sure
Why does my olive oil lamp burn the wick so fast and flame is really low
@@athomas2k8 the main body of oil must only be at maximum of 2 inches away from the flame. The closer the better. Dont worry the flame wont ignite the veg oil.
Also using cotton like those in swabs or cotton balls works better at wicking than string wicks.
@@graceoverreligion2509
I bought a length of wicking from the craft store and used vegetable oil.
The results were totally disappointing as the lamp, which is a used jar, simply will not stay lit.....
Vegetable oil has not given me any results sadly.
@@henryottis295 same. Cotton wrapped matchstick works best for me.
I just peel the cotton and wrap it unto the matchstick and hang the matchstick to a diy stand (those spring looking wick stand you make from a craft wire).
Thanks you Brother - awesome idea.
Gooood idea. I will also try.
Best tutorial ever. TY
You're welcome!
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Thank you so much Peace with you from Germany 👍❤
Great idea & way to use cheap easy materials to make this.
Thank you, that's simple and works.
Smashin 👌 Thanks for sharing that 🙏 listening from Ireland ☘
If you use many of these candles. Does using vegetable oil (cooking oil) stain the walls and ceiling of the room? Similarly to how fryers would stain the walls of a kitchen? And whats the odour like during burning? Will the room smell of a fryer too?
That’s awesome! Will remember this trick
Thank you! how cool, I'll have to ake a couple. Living off grid. Thank you again
Very cool idea 💡 😎 👍
Thanks for sharing this video, very helpful, God bless u
Nice oil pouring skills!
Nice idea I done that with kerosin before seeing ur video Iam also try to do such inventions thanku for this video
I like the fact that you use a tiny bottle, is so cute.
Excellent method! Thanks alot for sharing this videoclip👍🗽☃️
Very well done 👏
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This is very neat! Awesome! We used to do in girl scout camping but with salt underneath
What does the salt do?
@@hewakens I think it would prevent a fire if the bottle spilt. I'm thinking the oil would be absorbed by the salt...
That's awesome .. so cute and small haha thanks for sharing I totally love this
I love this idea! Thanks!
a very nice oil candle. a very fun project.
Watched the video.. this is probably the easiest oil lamp making I've ever seen and it's the cutest little thing..I feel I can make one maybe I can make one for me and one for my daughter she has a young child..it seems safer than the big candles she has
Excellent comment, thank you for the kind words. These are great as long as they don't tip over
What a great idea! I'm haemoraging ideas, need to find a fancy bottle to make some lights.
I liked and subbed can't believe I never thought of this.
Very nice video, Thank you. I plan on making one this week .
very nice job ! Is there a risk that the top of the glass bottle cracks due to the heat ?
Thank you! I've never had one break,but you never know!
Maybe as wider the cup is, as better. And of course, as flat as possible. Just think of the old greek/arabic oil lamps.
i love people like you
Thank you!
a great idea to use a nail polish bottle
Thank you for sharing this awesome cool video .haha! my favorite nail polish evergreen lol. now i know . I have a lot of these nail polish bottles. I can recycle
You did a beautiful job of pouring that oil into a very small opening. For myself, I think I'd put some oil in a small pitcher for filling the bottle. Thank you for mentioning not to make the aluminum foil too thick. I probably would have done that thinking more is better. Clearly not the case.
there's a great invention just out. It's called a funnel, lol. Yes there are mini funnels too.
@@funigurl72 You're right, and I have some of those mini funnels. Strange I didn't think of that. Thanks for the heads up.
I thought at first that he was going to make a mini funnel with the foil. Nope. But maybe I'll do that.
Oh how nice... thank you thank you so much, God bless you....AMEN
Hey man thanks for the video. I have a question.. My wicks are burning a little too fast and im having to pull more wick every 3-4 mins. Any idea on what could I be doing wrong? Thanks and welcome home.
You can use regular cotton and turn it into a wick by rolling it. It feeds oil much better than wicks.
Just love the lead bars in back ground. Great video and pleasure watching your videos, thank you!
I too shall search my daughter's bathroom for fingernail polish bottles, will use the wife and mother in-laws collection too. this lighting will be usefull when they find out and kick my rump into the backyard doghouse ! stuff can go for 5 a bottle, but I like the video thanks!
Great video. I've never thought of this but it's really good information to know
thanks for sharing great video great info God bless you
Good video. Ive made these and they run long time. Thanks
Thanks for a good, clear video.
Super cute!!! I have so many old polish bottles ♥
I love your ingenuity! Keep the videos coming.
Interesting. I think I'll try this.
Cool! Now I'll have a use to repurpose my own two daughters nail polish bottles when they run out!
this is amazing, i love it. I'm going to try this and use it with pot heater
Great vid, useful info...thank you☺
Thank you!
I seriously need assistance. I have made 2 and neither of them have a flame to speak of. The wick will light and burn down to the metal cap and continue to burn. I am using 100% cotton yarn and vegetable oil. What could I possibly be doing wrong? Any help would be great!! Thank you!
Has the wick been able to soak up oil up to the flame?