the forever wick olive oil lamp or candle.

Here are the directions! Thank you! 1. Use ½" copper tubing. 2. Cut off 1½" with pipe cutter. 3. Expose about ⅛” of tubing out of flange tool. 4. Sand the outside smooth. 5. Take another piece of ½"copper tubing and drill a small hole in the top. 6. Put 14 Gauge 2 Conductor Electrical Wire Cable or just 14g and wrap around pipe about 6x and remove. 7. Use 1¾" round piece of wood as a jig. Drill hole with a ¼" drill bit and add a groove on the top going to the hole for the wire. 8. Leave drill bit in jig as a guide. Slide pipe with wire wrapped around it over bit. Put wire in the groove and wrap the wire in the same direction 3x. Leave enough room for your handle. Bend wire straight up for handle. Remove from jig. 9. Put the flared 1½"copper tubing in coiled wire. 10. Cut 2½ to 3" length x 1" wide of the wick. . Use needle nose pliers to make a handle at top of wire. 11. Push wick in through flange side by twisting it in until about ⅛"is at the flange end, then make 3 cuts to form 4 "legs". 12. Twist the wick "legs"into the handle. Trim wick "legs"to the outside edge of the base of the handle. 13. Add about an inch of olive oil. 14. Squirt accelerant (lamp oil) onto wick (about 10 drops or more to prime), light, and enjoy!

I'm sick and I'm bored. I'm an engineer and an artist. So, while miserable, watching KZhead on the couch, you showed me this, things went sideways. Still watching KZhead by the light of my new olive oil lamp. Couldn't find any carbon felt, so I went with fiberglass tiki torch wicks. For now. Carbon felt is what I use for all my camp stoves. So much better. However, I got the copper pipe and wire. Didn't much like the spring copper coil at the bottom loke everyone shows. Too springy while moving. So, like wrapping stones for jewelry, I made spider legs that fit the bottom of my mason jar. Don't want it moving while using it as a flashlight. Next, I'm going to sandpaper the glass. Clear glass casts a farther light, but for indoor use, frosted glass refracts light better. Short distance, but much brighter. Color it red to preseve night vission if you need to sneek around. Plus, copper is so steam punk it ridiculous. Spend some time to not just coil the wire, but make it beautiful. A mason jar by itself it iconic in most of our hearts. Then you see one with a copper tree or lotus flower on fire in the middle... I'm just saying. Survival isn't just about utility. Take a few extra minutues to add a little extra to your projects so you can inspire other people who might see what you have made.

Thank you very much for being kind enough to share this inventive method of having light, it means a lot to me because I have no money to buy fancy prep stuff, and depend on a being given a ride to the store every week or two to get what few things I can afford. This way I won`t have to buy lots of kerosene, I`ve been getting by using candles, but they burn so fast and affording new ones is costly, the ones I use I found second hand cheap, but I don`t have many, and it is so depressing living in the dark, especially with no refrigeration or heat, or hot water.. Many blessings from a great grandmother in Maine❤

You are right that it is the gasified oil that is burning, not the liquid oil. But the reason you can't have too much oil in the lamp, is because a higher oil level increases the contact surface area between the copper and the oil. Copper conducts heat amazingly well. So any heat at the wick, gets wicked away from oil quickly. It cools the wick and the oil, and stops the gasifying. So if the tube was made of steel or clay/ceramic, then the oil level can be higher. As then the heat of the wick will be preserved and be more localized. Clay will really heat insulate the wick from the oil reservoir, so the wick column can be significantly hotter than the reservoir around it. Steel is quite "insulating" too, when compared to copper. With clay, perhaps the oil can be right at the top of the clay tube. Just below the lip. Maybe clay (and perhaps steel) will allow you to ignite the wick without accelerant. Not sure. Maybe with clay or steel, you can have a smaller diameter tube too. Because again, you avoid draining all the heat through the copper metal. The smaller the diameter, the more metal is there to cool the flame, per square area. The wider copper tube you use, the more insulation you add to the system, by increasing the proportion of wick and oil to the amount of copper. And insulation is what allows heat to build up to the vaporization temperature of refined olive oil (around and above 220-240°C (428-464°F)). Conductivities of the materials: Copper: ~400 W/m·K 304 Stainless Steel: ~16 W/m·K (approximately 24-25 times less than copper) Clay: 0.1-1.5 W/m·K (approximately 260-4000 times less than copper) Olive Oil: ~0.17 W/m·K (about 2300 times less than copper) Carbon Felt: ~0.04 W/m·K for pure carbon felt. I think the copper is very pretty, but please test with those other materials, and compare the oil level difference they allow, if any? That would be very interesting.

I've watched both guys too and try this out myself, but with a glass tube instead of copper. I'm a glassblower so I can make glass wick holders for these! I have yet to use the Carbon Felt as Robert Murray has recommended. For now I just use a cotton wick. I have also used hemp oil as well and it works too, just like the olive oil.

You can use these lamp/candles as simmer stoves for soup, tea, and even baking with the slow heat.

You can find carbon felt/ heat shielding for soldering in the plumbing section at the hardwear store. I found some at Home Depot for $14 made buy Oatay brand i think.

Nice how-to on the lamp. I have read many of the comments. Using a torch to light a lamp is a foolish waste of resources unless it is a last resort My philosophy about lighting ANY fire/lamp is "one match - success!". I have taught survival in class, in the water and the bush for several decades, by the way. In an actual survival situation, running out of an ignition source for heat could cost you more than just frustration. Light is necessary with humans for calmness and other mental health issues. The principles for outdoor survival are pretty much the same for indoors. Never burn anything galvanized! The gasses formed from burning the zinc coating is very toxic. Cheers from Alberta, Canada.

I am glad you mentioned Robert Murray-Smith as your inspiration. He has some great shows and fantastic experiments.

This is such a fantastic idea, thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. I have been in the long process of putting together emergency boxes for my granddaughters and this is going to be a great addition to their boxes. May God always Bless you

my uncle worked the night shift .in the winter he had a old metal coffee can with sand in it and a small candle in tne middle of the sand. he would light it when he got out of his car when he got off work everyone else would be scrapeing frost off there wind shilds his were clear as a bell.

Love your lights! Rural farmer here; when our electricity is out, they get to it as soon as they can. I make a different light for long term burning using small canning jars. Mine are candles using bits of fence fixing wire, odd bits of thin crochet thread and ideally bees wax, but that is expensive so it's usually melted down candle butts and yard sale bits and pieces. I make a coil in the bottom of the jar and crochet around it, up to a standing center. No felt or copper. A 4 ounce jar will burn 24 hours. Wipe it off, spend 2 minutes crocheting around the wire, pour in more recycled wax and it's ready to go again. I keep them handy for working lights because they do so well. Super cheap, reusing things I already have.

Fantastic! These are pretty, I love the copper look.❤

Honey you guys should just make these and sell these. Im.older and disabled and not strong enough do all that. Honey. Great and smart idea and I think they're pretty!!! Especially those little short ones!, So cute, Stylish. Ty for Sharing. ❤❤❤

This is such an amazing thing! Such a blessing that you shared this with the common people! Thank you!!!

FASCINATING! AND INGENIOUS! Thanks for posting!

Love the way those look. Great job. Thanks for sharing

What a great idea! I have a ton of little jars that now have a use. I've always had a hard time getting rid of old jars, now I'm glad I kept them, thank you!

Gorgeous ! I love it and you, sir, are a "whiz of a wiz" ... ty for sharing and peaceful travels ... namaste

Thank you very much for sharing this. They are amazing.

That laugh of confidence is cool. You only hear it from old experienced people. Earned calmness.👍

Love to see the human mind at hard work. Excellent project!!!

Awesome!!! Thank you for sharing!!!💡💡💡

I'm glad you shared this info. Really cool and it looks like it's forever reusable, just add more oil and your good. Thank you!!

Love this, we're gonna have a go at making one. Instructions are great...thank you for sharing 🙌

Lots of work went into this for us. TY. My only additional thought is to maneuver a handle to sit it outside the top of the jar.

I loved this video. Wonderful idea and thank you for sharing this!

Thanks for sharing this hand craft!!!!!

Pretty cool man! I’ve always enjoyed making stuff with copper as well. Merry Christmas and may God richly bless you.

Awesome video! And you do a great job at demonstrating !

If you are still making these, I would love a candle version!!! I will be following along your video to make another! I love this, and am a kindred Fire&Light lover. Excellent work!

An excellent video. Well done ❤

Thank you for sharing 😊❤️

Take a piece of cork and then make a hole in the middle, wide enough for the wick (3mm), and wrap the entire cork piece with aluminum foil. Then put the wick (rolled-up tissue works well) through the hole and make sure no cork is exposed. Then fill the jar with oil, put the floating cork on top and light it. It will float on top of the oil and the oil with burn down completely. Tested many times, the best method and my own idea :)

They are very unique, great job.

You did a good job. Thank you for sharing. Your lights are beautiful.

Just stumbled upon your video, and am interested in acquiring 2 lamps; the jars with a handle. Enjoyed watching as you crafted, and clearly explained the process, as well as function of your Efficient Lamps. Brilliant!!

You Are Brilliant!!❤

Simply AMAZING 🤩

Amazing idea, thanks for sharing XX can't wait to try this out. I've been making lamps out of clay and this will be a perfect set up for inside XX

Cool idea. You could probably add some essential oil to the olive oil to make it a scented lamp.

Beautiful and interesting job, thanks for sharing this beutiful idea

Nicely done! I’ll give it a try. Many thanks.

Corfu has lots of olive trees because 100s of years ago Venice owned the island and they needed the oil for street lights in rich Venice which was the bankers city

Could you give us a list of all the items that we could take to the hardware store? I LOVE THIS!! Thank you so much.

Thanks for the idea for a better wick

Wow those are sooo beautiful. I’m in love.

It's fantastic !!!

We have used floating wick olive oil lamps for centuries in the Orthodox church’s. What I have found is that IF you can obtain pomace oil of olives it will burn longer, no need to waste good oil in the lamps. Pomace oil is the last extraction from the ground mash of the olive and pits. It might be difficult to find in the states is the only problem. The copper pipe acts as a preheater for the olive oil which vaporizes the volatile compounds in the oil. Personally olive oil lights put out the best light for relaxation. Can you give a source for the carbon felt?

Excellent, informative, and entertaining, I'm interested in several lamps and candles please, thank you for sharing this video with everyone.

Oh man I love those lamps I love to have a couple of those the truly look nice 👍👍👍👍👍

Thank you for coming up with these, sharing what you've learned and selling them! It's enjoyable to learn from someone while they're enjoying what they're doing. Also, thank you for trucking, it's an important job. Praying over you and your family, Lord, bless them, draw them close to You and each other, and thank You for answering some of my questions and prayers, specifically through this video. Keep them and show them how deep Your love goes for them. Thank You also for making us all so different with all kinds of passions and talents! Bless these endevours as we enjoy the gift of light.

I usually use superclean methanol and ethanol mix in my alcohol stoves (radius 40 and radius 45) just because it does not soot and smell is nonexistant. Gotta try this since you say it does not smell! Cool!

Iike this different design, i made one without the copper tube and it works great. I used rolled up 100% cotton Tshirt for my wick i did a video as well with a jam jar, got my idea from waypoint survival and Felix imler. I also love the olive oil because no smoke!

I love those lamps too. ❤❤❤

Thank you for sharing this. I am going to do this with my kids on a weekend for a fun project 😊

This is fantastic my husband and I are off grid and have a cabin. Thank you for sharing your art and wonderful idea can't wait to make one this is so useful. A list of items used under the video would be very helpful but I can always rewatch 😁

I believe a torch lighter should be able to heat these up enough. I’ve seen “trench lamps” that are very similar that uses spent brass in place of copper tubing.

Awesome invitation!! Love it...

Ive been mucking about with candle and oil lamps for the past few years. Started recently dabbling with an oil candle using cooking oil. This is a great idea. Thanks

A good addition to this to negate the need for an accelerant would be to have either a cotton or hemp wick that feeds up the center of the bundle of carbon felt as a sacrificial wick and you use that for your starter flame. It does make it where you would have to replace the sacrificial wick every so often, but it also negates the need for an accelerant or having some on hand.

Ive heard tales of ancient graves being opened up and them seeing a candle burning or that the candle had just burned out. This seems like a more complex modern version but very cool still. Will have to make me a set.

Awesome work bro! Thanks for sharing.

That's awesome cool. !!! Thanks for giving your idea away. Sweet😅

That is awesome thanks for sharing this I’m gonna build one looks pretty simple if you know what your doing 👍

Wow, incredible. This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. Very clever. One tip for filming: it would give us a better view of what you're doing if the camera were in front of your hands, rather than to the side. With the camera to the side, all we see is your hands, not what you're actually doing with the tools. Thanks for the video!

I love them they are very amazing Thank you very much for this video

Wow-ah... thanks for sharing, this is going in my car, bugout bag, and power outage box.

Olive oil is flammable. It has a flash point of around 410°F (210°C), which means it can ignite when heated to that temperature and exposed to an ignition source, such as a flame or spark. Also the smoke is toxic so its best to have something like that in a controlled environment like inside an ammo box have a pipe going from outside and in and a chimney goings outside, thatvway you use heat but dont lose oxygen or inhale toxic smoke

Big respect for RMS what a legend

Thanks for sharing a great video

Thank you for this great video! Your candles and lamps are lovely! I'd love to buy two lamps from you!

How long will it burn with the small amount of fuel that you add to the candle? This is cool and you’ve done very well!!

This is perfect for those really big IKEA candle displays that they have at the store. I really like buying the large candles but I have to admit it does get a bit expensive to run them all through the holidays

I love these and they look great too.

Actually I enjoy watching it you are creative

Wonder if a copper jacket shell casing could be used in place of hauling around a coil of copper tubing. Would be useful to make an emergency heat source .

A torch lighter would probably obviate the need for an accelerant. Nice work!

Excellent video!! Thank you!!

Really cool... Would like one! The lamp with the handle!

Okay I love this! Do you have a link to the wick you used for this project?

Thank you VERY much for the video, I am working with oil-candles and sand-batteries and clay-pots every day, trying to find the best solution to make heating for my house. I wild be glad to email you. Thank you.

Very cool🎉thanks for sharing 🍸.

Thanks for this great video

I like what you have designed but let me ask some questions. How much burn time do you get with that amount of oil? What is the minimum distance of air gap between the oil and the top of the wick? I'm searching for a heat source for the nights I spend in my truck. Oil candles seem to be a good option.

Drill some small holes in the sides of the tubes. That will give air a path to travel around the wick and carry the gases to the flame.

I received my six forever oil lamp wick inserts today! I’m going to make and use them in my copper sand heater buckets. They shipped supper fast and I didn’t have to go hunt down and make the forever wicks inserts. 🎉

Like it thanks from Puerto Rico island SALUDOS!!

I see you are using thermal feedback to help make it work. Nice job. I sew in strands of copper speaker wire into my carbon felt hurricane lamp wicks. I am using regular lamp oil in those. No priming needed. Tested at 25deg F for 1 hour. Worked fine. How much smoke does your setup create? I wonder if you can make it Aladdin Style with a central draft in the wick.

Yes, black carbon felt works like a champ.

Loved that.

Wow you have helped me so much with the wire winding! Also mine were smoking so now realise I had too much felt packed in the tube. There is a lot of heat comming off so I put a camp fire heater over the candle and a wood stove fan on top of that . Got a mini heater, not perfect but you may wish to have a go and perfect it ❤

Couldn't you make the copper tubing shorter so that it's bottom end is further away from the bottom of the jar, so you could add more oil, but the oil won't cover the bottom hole of the copper tube. That way the gases can still get into the copper tube, because the copper tube is no longer buried way at the bottom of the jar, but up further towards the top, allowing more oil to be added and still leave space in the copper tube for the gases to enter through the bottom

You are a genius

You should build an array of these 7 candles tight together in a honey comb formation and create a offgrid/camping/emergency cooking stove burner

Robert Murray is a genius!

I'm assuming you could add some type of oil drip system to get extended burn times. That's a video I'd like to see

I like the idea. However, your camera angles and speaking skills need a little work. Not being mean, just a little constructive criticism to help make better videos. If this is an instructional video...accurately describing what it is your doing, providing measurements, etc...will get you better results.

I made one this weekend. It was fun and I love my new little oil candle. Though I need to find an oil to burn that isn't so fumey. It's just olive oil, but it definitely smells like hot olive oil. Not terrible, just, it builds in a small room after a while. Thanks for the project. I can see how they can be addicting to make.

14 gauge wire, 1/2 inch copper tubing, 1 3/4 wood with a groove to make larger coil, leave enough to make handle, make flange on top. Wick 2,5 to 3 inch wick. Carbon felt Wick 3/8 over top and 1 1/2 out bottom. Cheap olive oil, bulk.