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Diploid
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Registered: 01/09/03
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Diploid's Home-made Alcohol Lamp

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#1435871 - 04/07/03 11:00 AM (21 years, 14 days ago)

Cheap, easy, and effective alcohol lamp for sterilizing needles, scalpels, and other instruments.

1. Buy Baby food. Banana is my favorite, but other flavors should work as well. Get this at the supermarket. :grin:

2. Buy Some Alcohol. You can get this at a hardware store or drug store. Ethyl or methyl alcohol is best. Avoid isopropyl alcohol. It's vapor pressure is high and will tend to spill out of the jar when it gets warm. Also keep a fire extinguisher nearby whenever you work with an open flame.

3. Buy 3/8" spade drill bit. Get this at the hardware store too.

4. Buy some cotton balls. You can get these at any drug store. Don't use polyfill; it will melt. Use cotton only!

5. Open the jar of baby food and eat it. Yum! Rinse and dry the jar, then drill a 3/8" hole in the lid. Use a small nail to poke a second hole near the rim to equalize pressure.

6. Squeeze a cotton ball and stick it part-way through the hole in the lid. This will serve as the wick.

7. Stick a few cotton balls in the jar. Fill the jar about half-way with alcohol. Don't overfill it. Half way is plenty.

8. Put the lid on the jar with the wick sticking out of the top. Put a few drops of alcohol on the top of the wick to get it primed.

9. Make sure you wipe up any spilled alcohol from your working surface and from the sides and lid of the jar, then light the wick. You'll get a clean, hot flame far better than anything you can get out of a lighter.

To extinguish, cover the whole thing with a glass. The flame will consume all the oxygen in a couple of seconds, then it will go out.

Edit: some have suggested a modification to improve the design. Poke a second small hole in the lid away from the hole for the wick to equalize the pressure.

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