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monkeymagic
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Alcohol lamp or oil lamp?
#717808 - 07/02/02 10:00 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm having trouble finding an alcohol lamp that isn't really expensive with shipping and handling. I have found an oil lamp to buuy at walmart. Will this work just as well?
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Roadkill
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Registered: 12/11/01
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Re: Alcohol lamp or oil lamp? [Re: monkeymagic]
#717853 - 07/02/02 10:26 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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no it won't.....you will have nasty oily soot on your needle.
if you can't find an Alcohol lamp.....use a butane torch or lighter(torch kind).
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Fd3000
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Re: Alcohol lamp or oil lamp? [Re: Roadkill]
#717933 - 07/02/02 11:14 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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Do the torch lighters leave residue on the needle? I have used one but didnt look for any residue....
Fd
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Roadkill
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Re: Alcohol lamp or oil lamp? [Re: Fd3000]
#717988 - 07/02/02 11:48 AM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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Very little.....and you can wipe the needle with a cotton ball with 99% Alcohol on it....if it makes you feel better.
-------------------- Laterz, Road Who the hell you callin crazy? You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating froot loops on your front porch! Brainiac said: PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.
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paranoid2
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Re: Alcohol lamp or oil lamp? [Re: monkeymagic]
#718136 - 07/02/02 01:32 PM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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Or you can do what I did--make your own alcohol lamp...
...go to the grocery store, and buy a small jar of baby food--preferably something you might want to eat (I went for the applesauce, and steered clear of the creamed lamb ). After you empty and rinse out the jar, hammer a small nail through the lid, from the top side. Finally, cut a single "thread" (or whatever they're called) from the end of a mop--you need a piece just long enough to poke a quarter inch out of the lid, and barely touching the bottom of the jar when the lid is on. Finally, fill the jar, about half-way with denatured alcohol (in the paint department of a hardware store), screw the cap on and light!
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staindblue
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Re: Alcohol lamp or oil lamp? [Re: paranoid2]
#718146 - 07/02/02 01:39 PM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thank's Paranoid, That's a great idea, I needed one of these for a glove box I'm making!!
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L3D
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Re: Alcohol lamp or oil lamp? [Re: paranoid2]
#718162 - 07/02/02 01:49 PM (21 years, 2 months ago) |
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or if you need it quick do what i do. take a shot glass fill it up with a little alchol and light.
works good.
L3D
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