After some playing around I’ve found out that my Famos is 100% superior than my Aladdin 23. The Famos 120 wick is easily attainable for £4 a wick...
In the photos above I’ve used an Aladdin mantle to achieve the intended brightness.
Here are some photos of my Aladdin lamp compared to other lamp that uses combustion. There is a candle, a cheap gas lantern that I’ve modified the...
Aladdin 23 burner is so horribly manufactured in Hong Kong with extremely poor tolerance, no matter how hard I tried to trim the wick by correctly...
So Aladdin lamp is still used by many people? What other alternative solutions that other people found, I want to hear about it.
Thank for the congratulations
Here is some image. For the shape of the mantle is critical for the correct operation of the lamp itself. In real life off grid situations I would...
Yes, a lot of trial and errors. More than 70 attempts to achieve today’s result. Now I really don’t like Aladdin lamp for a lot of reason. Aladdin...
Finally the Aladdin oil lamp is running correctly with a homemade mantle, it gives out near exact amount of light compares to a factory made...
Where can you find this book? Is it very good? seems that imperial lighting sells this book for $44, I can't find it in any large library in my area.
Currently I'm working on DIY bunsen burners, which lays the basic foundations for all mantle gas lamps. Because Carl Welsbach (gas mantle...
Thanks, collodion can be made from different nitrocellulose which including old cinema rolls that are incredibly flammable. (You need to remove...
I've made rigid collodion. You can actually make different stiffness collodion by blending different chemicals that still produces a strong...
I think the progress is so far quite successful. I'm still working on perfecting the Mantle pickling solution, the pickling agent can drastically...
Now a video of DIY collodion coating on mantle. (Which stiffens the mantle makes it much stronger) [MEDIA]
[MEDIA] here is a video of the lamp running with DIY mantle from the previous experiment.
Using a metal tin to carbonize the mantle is quite a clever idea. I’ve tried a small sections of mantle fabric in a metal box and heated it up,...
Wow! that is some very useful informations. I never though you can first carbonised the mantle in an oxygen free environment. Would Carbonising an...
That is quite helpful for the shape of the origional 120CP cone shaped mantle. The 120CP mantle seems to be far larger than the aladdin loxon...
The burnt mantle could be protected and strengthened by dipping the burnt mantle into a thin solution of collodion which my recipe is 50% acetone,...
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