Sailingsaves
Well-Known Member
Having decided I will never make money by selling I am spending instead it seems.
Here is what I consider 2 beautiful lamps that I bought recently.
The bi-colour - I love the mechanical design, the clunking catches, the cute lamp itself, the non-reliance upon electricity.
The MOD one is my favourite because it is British designed and made (1940) - very simple, very clever and works brilliantly - no pun intended.
Both have remained alight and hardly flickered in high winds - jolly good design.
At a classic car show I bought the small brass 'bottle' simply because it was £2 and solid and heavy. Thought it would come in handy for something one day and now I have turned it into a mini lamp. Very pleasing to sit with it in one's hands and feel the warmth on one's face and the slight smell of paraffin.
Anyone know if the French? or bio something or other fuel recommended for Origo cookers can be used for oil lamps - my guess is not, because those fuels are so much more flammable than kerosene (paraffin) but I would like a less smelly fuel if possible - may have to try some filtering technique if I wish to use indoors otherwise such as activated charcoal over a mesh (and away from heat AND still allow flow of air - quite a design problem - everyone else in house hates smell of the lamps even though I can learn to live with it, but then I am a masochist of sorts.
Hope you like the video.
https://youtu.be/EIyXCZxiCJU
Here is what I consider 2 beautiful lamps that I bought recently.
The bi-colour - I love the mechanical design, the clunking catches, the cute lamp itself, the non-reliance upon electricity.
The MOD one is my favourite because it is British designed and made (1940) - very simple, very clever and works brilliantly - no pun intended.
Both have remained alight and hardly flickered in high winds - jolly good design.
At a classic car show I bought the small brass 'bottle' simply because it was £2 and solid and heavy. Thought it would come in handy for something one day and now I have turned it into a mini lamp. Very pleasing to sit with it in one's hands and feel the warmth on one's face and the slight smell of paraffin.
Anyone know if the French? or bio something or other fuel recommended for Origo cookers can be used for oil lamps - my guess is not, because those fuels are so much more flammable than kerosene (paraffin) but I would like a less smelly fuel if possible - may have to try some filtering technique if I wish to use indoors otherwise such as activated charcoal over a mesh (and away from heat AND still allow flow of air - quite a design problem - everyone else in house hates smell of the lamps even though I can learn to live with it, but then I am a masochist of sorts.
Hope you like the video.
https://youtu.be/EIyXCZxiCJU
