Oil lamp Beam Shots

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Sway

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OK I know this is a little off flavor but I was bored. I just love my Aladdin oil lamp and its ability to light a room plus it makes a nice hand warmer when the power is out /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Both lamps are running on ULTRA-PURE liquid paraffin lamp oil just to be fair.

Lamplight Farms Oil Lamp
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Aladdin Oil Lamp
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As you can see the corona of the Aladdin is over powering the camera, its like looking a naked 60 watt light bulb and will put spots in your eyes if looked at to long /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif

Later
Sway
 
Sway, very nice, I now think I need one of those aladdin lamps. I've always thought oil lamps were cool! Thanks man! Doug /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Sway, where do you buy Alladin oil lamps like yours. Can you buy reproductions that have same features?

Bill
 
Bill,

The best price I have found is (69.95) from www.theoillampman.com but he is here in NC so the postage to the West maybe a factor. You can burn Kerosene or lamp oil in these but I use Ultra-Pure lamp oil from www.lamplightframs.com which has no smell except when extinguished it smells like a candle.

Later
Sway
 
Nice pics, seems you are covering all angles of lighting technology. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif Just another thing to add to the Christmas wish list. Seems like the thing to have for a power outage.
 
Wait till I fill it up with Flashohol /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif

After posting these photos last night I kept trying to turn the light off in the kitchen and it's wouldn't go out, He, He, I had forgot the Aladdin was burning, Duh /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink2.gif They are so bright you would think an incandescent light was on.
 
My Arc welding equipment is temp. out-of-service, by chance do you think I can borrow that lamp to do some
T2 welding? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/huh.gif
 
I had one of these things become broken in an earthquake - but then again, I also had a Turtlelite II become broken in the same quake, so I guess nothing's TOTALLY indestructible. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
I lived off the grid with Aladdin lamps for 8 years. They are wonderful kerosene lamps that use incandescent mantles and easily produce as much light as a 60 watt bulbs as the pictures above show. You have to use them with lamp shades.

To work at maximum output they require keeping the circular wick trimmed off evenly all the way around so as to heat the mantle evenly. When mine were adjusted properly they burned without smell even on kerosene. But mind you, there are various grades of kerosene. They did smell a bit when you blew them out but I put up with that because kerosene was darn cheap and I bought it by the 50 gallon drum.

Seeing those "beam shots" posted brought back many happy memories.
 
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