Quote from: hartiberlin on November 14, 2007, 10:54:33 PM

Hi Bill,
what exact lamps do you use ?
Website address?

I am still looking for lamps or laterns that can be run from saladoil or normal
cooking oil,as heating oil over here is almost more expensive than cheap salat oil
from the supermarket...

I just checked some prices and with delivery you pay around 100 Euros for 100
Liters of heating oil.
Plantoil ( saladoil) can be got already for around 75 cents/Liter.

The design is pretty easy. The main part is that the salad oil needs more air than the oil lamp lampoils do.
All you need to do is make a holder to hold a cotton wick above the oil level such that the bottom of the wick is wet with the oil.  I used a heavy copper wire borrowed from my electronics workbox, made a flat spiral to make it steady and stand up by itself then extended the wire straight up and twirled a loop to hold the top of the wick. It works just fine. Olive oil is nice corn oil is supposed to be terribly smokey. The only time I ever smell the olive oil is when the oil runs out and the light extinguishes in a little puff of smoke.

jeanna

Hi helmut
Thanks; but the Frenette Heater looks to be a mechanical friction type pump system.
The Fuelless Heater looks like some kind of reaction between the zinc and the fluid within a metal drum.