Catalytic oil lamp aka Ashleigh & Burwood lamps. Stone and Wick restoration and DIY scented fuel,
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- A video on how to clean and rejuvinate the ceramic stone and make your own scents for the, in my case, Ashleigh & Burwood, catalytic frangrance lamps.
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Thank you soooo much!! I was despairing about the cost of those oils and thought it woiuld be yet another treat I would have to forget about, However, my beautifully scented flat is now affordable. xx
Thanks for this! Just away to try my revived wick… fingers crossed!
You'll be fine...
Well done! Thank you for thr tutorial ❤️
Oh my gosh! Thank you for sharing, you just made my day. 😊😊😊♥️
You're welcome.
Muchas gracias por tomarse el tiempo para explicar esto, soy nueva esto de las lamparas cataliticas y me encanta el conxepto.
Ana
Gracias y me alegro de que hayas encontrado útil el video.
Thanks for making this video! I have seen (though only one other UA-cam video seems to explain the process) how to make the liquid at home, but not how to restore and refresh a "wick-catalizer." I don't have a blow torch handy but perhaps a butane lighter could get the job done? I will have to test it out. Again, there's wonderful money saving information here, I appreciate it! Thanks!
It needs to be glowing white hot. A normal cigarette lighter wont do it, one of those wind resistant turbo lighters might. Even then, the wicks will eventually degrade to the point where they are unrecoverable but it will extend it's life 3 or four fold.
Holy moses. I have just made my first batch of Sea Breeze, following your instructions. I already had a 500ml bottle of 99.9% so just ordered the little bottle of Sea Breeze. To equal to a 1/4, I added 1.5ml of essence. Even while I was mixing it I was convinced it was not going to work becuase it smelled strongly of acetone (before and after the mix). Having made it, I used it anyway and I am now sat here imagining myself on a beach, (ok, slight exaggeration), but it is lovely. Lampe Berger Ocean Breeze is my favourite, but this is pretty dammed close. Now I know it can be made so cheaply, I am off to buy some more burners for other rooms in my house. Brilliant. Thank you so much.
You say acetone but i assume you meant to say isopropyl alcohol.
@@Cornz38 Ha ha. No, I meant to say Acetone. It is definitely 99.9% Isoproypyl Alchohol, but smells like Acetone (nail varnish remover). It seems there are a few people on Amazon who say the same thing. What I have made is really nice and strong when diffusing, but sadly, doesn't seem to linger as long as the original? Still very nice though and much cheaper than the original. Thank you.
@@s.c3773 Do be careful, some of the oils are MUCH stronger than other. The mango and nectarine is sickly and overpowering if you use a drop too much oil.
@@Cornz38 Thank you. I have only made the one bottle at the moment using a ratio of 1/4 to 1L. That will be my starting point for any future batches I make. Really liking this. :)
Great vid. indeed! Most appreciated! Not sure what the metal catalysts are in there but 2000C blowtorch hopefully wouldnt vapourise any of them. I know platinum melts at 1700C odd though so that might start moving. Certainly blowtorching shouldnt deplete the platinum component of the catalyst, it vapourises above 3000C. Brilliant!
There are no metal catalysts. It's ceramic.
5 ml of oil (natural or otherwise) to a liter of alcohol. Or 100 drops. A lot depends on the oil as some are stronger smelling. If not potent enough - climb by 10% steps.
And don't forget that you can definitely go for your own brand :) by mixing different oils.
Agreed, some of the oils are more potent. My personal favorites are Sicilian Lemon and Fresh Linen.
@@Cornz38 where do you purchase your oils from and do I just need to look for pure oil? I have some of the catalytic burners but it's been a long time since I used them.
SO sorry for the almost year long delay. Ebay. Or Amazon. ALways cheaper to buy several. @@loveishope4406
Thank you
My pleasure.
Does it perform as new or is there some loss in performance? I notice they say to burn them for only 30 mins at a time too to preserve the wick. That is not very long really :(
Yep and i burn mine from full to empty (12 hours) every time. Just do what i do in the vid. Besides, if you were burning a bottle of their stuff at 12 quid or whatever it is lately every other day, what would you do with your lamp? You'd bin it as being WAY to expensive is what.
Perfect video, just wot I was trying to find before splashing out so much money. Thanks for sharing!
3 questions for u.
1. Could u make one of these using a pretty bottle u have at home and buying a catalitic wick?
2. R they worth splashing out all the money ie r they as effective as they say they are.
3. Around how long does a wick last.
Thank u so much! X
1: my understanding is that the glass on the originals is heat resistant so i wouldn't trust any old bottle. YMMV
2: i love mine and i buy wicks from aliexpress, not A&B further reducing my costs.
3. depends on how much oil you use but i can get a good few months out of mine. The weak point is the collar where i push twist the new wick in. They break easily there.
@@Cornz38 thank you x
I have similar lamps with round wicks, use sesame seed oil but cant get them to burn..
Sesame seed oil? For what?
I've always wondered one thing,
Can you use the fragrance oil as regular lamp oil?
Not to the best of my knowledge, but don't quote me. I seem to recall the oil is different.
@@Cornz38 ah yes i just found out it's not alcohol based It's kerosine.
It would work but I think it would burn out much more quickly.
Does your smoke or soot when you use this kind of liquid?
No, this is the same as what they use. IF it smokes then you are using too much fragrance oil or is it the wrong type of oil.
Hi, thank you very much for this video, it is really informative and useful. The thing that's puzzling me is the fragrance oil you mixed with the 99.9% alcohol. The small bottles seem to be just a smaller (and more expensive) option than the larger bottles which are meant to be used neat? How then can using 1/3rd bottle to 1L produce the same strength of fragrance, surely, the fragrance must be 'watered' down a lot by mixing with more alcohol? I did note that you tried a full small bottle but had problems with the burner, again I am not sure why this was as you were just adding more alcohol which is the basis of the original fragrance.
The small square bottles are the essential oils and are not diluted. The manufactures recommend not to use them, but then they would say that. So you are adding neat oil to pure IPA.
A bottle of oil is £3 apx, 1 litre of IPA about the same. From one £3 bottle of the oil, you will get 2-4+ Lts of fragrance so, it is MUCH cheaper to make your own and not difficult. Oh, IPA is HIGHLY flammable, do be careful.
@@Cornz38 Thank you.
@@Cornz38 Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing that really useful information, that’s going to make using my fragrance lamps much more affordable! That stuff is expensive man! I was wondering, could you use a few drops of essential oils into the isopropyl? Or would that not work? 😊☘️🥰
When i tried some other brand oils, it ruined the wick and they wouldn't burn cleanly. But give it a try, you know how to clean one up now! ;-)
after 20 minutes of burning, is it last for 6 - 8 hours?
Sorry, i do not understand your question. Burning what for 20 minutes?
@@Cornz38 You burned for two minutes first, Then it smokes for 20 minutes, After 20 minutes you turn it off, Now how long will its fragrance last in the room ?This is what I wanted to ask you
IF the wick and stone are in good condition it will burn until the fuel is gone or you extinguish it. As for how long the fragrance lasts, how long is a piece of string? If your house is draughty then not long at all. I now make the fragrance weak and just let it burn all day so there is a constant pleasant smell from morning till night.@@hassanrajpoot6957
@@Cornz38 good to know, thank you for your kind reply.. :)
Thank you for watching and engaging with me. All the best for 2024.@@hassanrajpoot6957
What is the percentage of alcohol?
It is 99.9% ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL.
@@Cornz38 91%?
@@angeldew77 That will work but any more water and you'll run into problems.
It’s actually the metal wire (platinum) that has the whole catalytic process going… There is a video on YT with the history and science of the lamp.
What metal wire? Don't say the piece of wire that holds the ceramic is because that is NOT platinum. You can remove that and the lamp still works. There is NO platinum in these. It has nothing to do with it. The ceramic heats up to a point where the IPA is vapourised and it is then self sustaining by capillary action and heat..