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Recycled Oil Candle Aka Bio Fuel Candle: by Jozef Woroniecki

This document provides instructions for making a recycled oil candle using common household materials. The candle uses vegetable or recycled oil and a wick coiled around wire inside a glass container. When lighting essential oils are added to recycled oils, the smells produced can be unexpected. Safety precautions like ensuring the wick does not extend too far above the container are recommended to prevent fires. Materials needed include wire, a glass container, vegetable oil, a wick, and pliers. Detailed instructions explain how to coil the wire and insert the wick inside the container.

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Recycled Oil Candle Aka Bio Fuel Candle: by Jozef Woroniecki

This document provides instructions for making a recycled oil candle using common household materials. The candle uses vegetable or recycled oil and a wick coiled around wire inside a glass container. When lighting essential oils are added to recycled oils, the smells produced can be unexpected. Safety precautions like ensuring the wick does not extend too far above the container are recommended to prevent fires. Materials needed include wire, a glass container, vegetable oil, a wick, and pliers. Detailed instructions explain how to coil the wire and insert the wick inside the container.

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10/04/2010

Recycled Oil Candle

Aka

Bio Fuel Candle


By Jozef Woroniecki

An ounce of oil will burn for about 8-12 hours using this style of oil lamp.
You can use recycled vegetable oil and recycled votives (glass jars, or
shallow bowls work equally as well) with this simple method. If you use old
frying oil that is stinky you can ad some citrus oil or cinnamon oil to it.
Eucalyptus oil works best, but when you start mixing things that will burn it
never smells like you think it will. On one occasion, my brother gave me
“priceless” essential oils from the middle east as a Christmas present. He
bragged about how much they cost and that he was able to talk the
merchant down from $200 to $75. I used grape seed oil and new wicks,
then I added a few drops of this “priceless” oil to my lamp. When I came
home later that night (yesssss, I left an open flame unattended…) my whole
apartment smelled like chocolate pina coladas. It was worse than a New
York City cab with new air fresheners. I could just see the look on the
merchants face when he got $75 from my brother for oil he paid $2 for in a
petrol station. Im still waiting for the right time to tell him.

Materials
Wire (hanger wire, electrical wire, etc)
Glass or ceramic container
Old (or new) veggie oil, or bio fuel
Wick (I bought a bag of wicks for .99 cents at an Indian Grocery)
Needle nose pliers

Instructions
I used Bonsai wire for this but an old metal hanger works as well, wrap
the wire around the pliers starting from the tip to the base. The coil should
be no taller than the container you are placing it in. In fact it should be
about a half an inch or more below the top of the container because the wick
will protrude above the coil and often oil will spit and spatter and you want
the container to prevent oil splatter outside the container. This will also
prevent a fire. Safety first. The last two loops at the bottom of the base of
the metal coil (opposite the tip of the pliers) should be concentric circles so
as to provide a base to rest the coil on. The last bit of wire should be used
to make a handle that comes out of the oil, down over the lip of the
container and then back into the container. Pull the pliers out of the coil
and insert the wick. See Picture Below, or email me. If you have questions:

[email protected]

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