1778 An Olive Oil Burner

Merry Christmas everybody and a happy new year

[@hoog111]

Merry Christmas. Special thanks to the sound editor who has to edit out all those unwanted sounds after the beans. It’s a miracle you don’t blow the whole place up lol. Absolutely luv u Rob. You’re the best thing on u tube. On behalf of everybody Thankyou.

[@ogi22]

Joining your Christmas wishes. And wishing Mr. Smith MANY crazy ideas this new year! 🙃

[@toml.8210]

@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 I wonder what Rob is like after a few pints?

[@dantronics1682]

maybe the beans we eat in the UK is different to other countries but we do eat a lot of beans here (beans and toast, chips and beans) but we never seems to get the increase methane production that people from other countries talked about

[@ogi22]

@@dantronics1682 Hehehe... evolution? 😆

[@Michael-eo5nf]

Yeah it is a miracle he doesn't blow the whole place up You saw the size of those fire extinguishers he has in the back there That's hysterical He knows he's playing with fire in there I love him too Have a great day

[@Gary-uy9mr]

Oh yeah, had this cool one made of stained glass and a little metal tube in the center. Put a soaked cotton ball on top of it and light. Merry Christmas from across the pond.

[@sandpiperetching4248]

OMG I have just built an indoor ethanol fire. I have done an alcohol stove. Veg oil lantern and candle. Now I have to build this too!

[@ranman5501]

Merry Christmas to you both! Most cheap olive oil isn’t really olive oil. (Yes it’s a thing, look it up) may explain the sooty flame.

[@pattiannepascual]

🎄 Merry Christmas Robert! 🎄The 🎁gifts🎁 you give us year round are priceless.Thank you so very much! You are literally saving lives even if you don't know it.🙏♥️🙏

[@jorgeo4483]

I will answer him here: OK Merry Christmas, I've been following you ever since the muppets disappeared on TV and with them the crazy French cook, you're the closest thing I've ever seen, hahaha. In any case, I can't understand someone putting this into practice with "extra virgin olive oil", more expensive than a liter of gasoline even in Spain and very healthy, in any case I would use used oil and never in the living room, with the evaporation of humid air impregnated with oil you will get a pleasant and almost eternal color and smell of frying at home. I don't think the Romans used this in their lamps, they already knew about tar and other fuels, the oil even came from Spain and its production was inspected, imagine its importance.

[@markwritt8541]

Good going. Olive pomace oil might be even cheaper still. Being as it's a secondary oil obtained after the first press in regular olive oil production.

[@sandiamartin585]

Basically you have made a gasifier. If you use wood chips instead of olive oil, you can make biochar!! (Great for your garden!). Thanks for sharing.

[@martinsialle5395]

Merry Christmas Robert. And thank you.

[@stancooper5436]

Merry Christmas 🎄, Robert. You're a source of inspiration and a guy I imagine would be a hoot to go for a beer with. All the best mate. 👍

[@billybarty1672]

Beautiful! Merry Christmas!

[@Michael-eo5nf]

Just started watching you and it's great you keep things short and sweet It's very funny and extremely educational I'm so glad I found the carbon fiber thing I don't want to pay for lamp oil and this particular video with what you can do with that was fabulous Thank you so much

[@breaking_bear]

Outstanding candling and heating device and different variations thereof! So much fun!

[@jamesyman007]

Merry Christmas and God Bless. Enjoy all your vids!

[@mus3equal]

Thank you for all your videos, always very insightful in so many ways!

[@kevinbrooks4031]

Merry Christmas Robert, I really enjoy your demonstrations and resourcefulness. Peace and good health

[@gregparman-sibley6277]

You don't live in a box, you live outside them. In fact the boxes are running for the hills begging for mercy. Love your positivity, your up beat delivery and your smiles. The best thing is that although my ideas do not work first time most of the time, you have given me the insight to revisit and try again until they do.

[@matsuz100]

Merry Christmas Robert, thank you for all your great videos.

[@dennisgolden7596]

Happy Christmas thanks for your work and great ideas

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Robert and Everyone Here! Thank You Robert, I am much impressed by your Glee when you get something to Light!!😁🔥🔥 Lol!!!

[@normandothegreat]

Merry Christmas to you and yours (Luke too!), stay safe and warm. ✌️🎅👍

[@felewoverthecoocoo2556]

Merry Christmas Eve Mr. Smith! I think that heater looks really awesome as well!

[@salimufari]

The soot is likely the tuning of the wick height. Good stuff Robert.

[@crazyrayuk36]

Excellent as always Merry Christmas to you all

[@davidlittlefield2483]

Awesome! Merry Christmas to you and your kin.

[@Mrandy8895]

Really enjoying these lamps/heaters.

[@lilak131]

Absolutely brilliant! New to the channel & loving the videos!

[@72markmiester]

You’re such a happy guy. I like that. Stay happy my friend. 😃👍

[@jeffbee6090]

...just love your videos... merry christmas my friend

[@andrewvine7949]

Your videos always remind me of my childhood watching blue peter , but your videos are way much better, thank you

[@Grandassets]

I love the idea of the carbon felt, I have a ton of things I want to try now!

[@okieinexile]

Merry Christmas from the USA

[@gojohnniegogo]

Merry Christmas, Rob!

[@l0I0I0I0]

Humm ..missing two very very important things! Vodka and vermouth! Merry Christmas!

[@alexkatsimeros1717]

Hi Rob (Re 1778) my name is Alexander or Alex if you prefer and I must say I find your presentations extremely enjoyable and entertaining not to mention informative and for that I thank you very much. My family on and off due to sieges and war and famine and disease has used an oil burner for lighting and heat for about 5000 years, yes even before the Romans and the siege of Troy . Yes I'm Greek God forgive me, anyway we discovered back then that the higher the flame the more smoke it produced and the adjustment of the flame down until the smoke stopped to zero was the most effective way to burn the olive oil, heating was provided by cooking fire most times but the small flame and terracotta pot system also was employed. Once again thank you for the fantastic show and keep the good work coming. With respect Alex.

[@james9789]

Olive oil quite pricey at the minute but does burn superbly in my experience,the flame here is too high that's why it is sooting ,regulate the flame / wick , merry Christmas everyone and thanks for all the inspirational videos tnt.

[@jmorrison5206]

So awesome! Merry Christmas!🎁

[@cujimmy1366]

Genius of the lamp ... Merry Christmas ⛄.

[@SuperMIKevin]

You guys have a lot of fun! I envy you.

[@migalito1955]

Merry Christmas Robert & crew

[@ahmetgure1506]

What a nice smiling.. Thanks for all funny and valuable videos..

[@mayberrylife]

Using the forever wick I now have a use for all my spent bacon grease etc! Thank you for your brilliance!

[@triumphmanful]

smells yummy when burned, I want to get some bacon going and some eggs. ! YUM

[@michaelhicks2599]

Merry Christmas to you both

[@michaelschauperl172]

Merry Christmas!!!

[@garyhyndman1105]

Thanks again for another great idea. Im going to make a mantle when my gauze arrives.

[@ArcanusLibero]

Another fine video. Thanks.

[@TheTamrock2007]

Merry Christmas from a frigid Pensacola Florida ❤️

[@garethlaw4884]

Happy Christmas and keep up the great content 👍

[@stevewebb5735]

I sometimes use veg oil to light our log burner - no need for firelighters, just a small bit poured on some paper

[@reubenlongworth3586]

Merry Christmas and thanks for your prolific output X rooby

[@gijoemolinaro]

Happy Christmas to you and your family Sir thanks for your amazingly informative and enjoyable vids you're the best God bless 👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏😇😃👌🤩

[@RayS-zh5we]

Happy holidays and God bless 🎄🎅

[@12thsonofisrael]

Looks like a great heater.

[@niceboy761]

Boot Polish is a good sauce of fire stays lit for ages

[@rickwheeler978]

Nice. What's it made of?

[@nathanbradbury6607]

Rob and Luke have a great Christmas and New Year

[@maddog19671967]

Loved your talk rob an enjoy your holidays too kid, will be hopefully starting a project soon my self, a tiny house on wheels so i can stay up at work without having to spend a small fortune on fuel, might think about one of your stoves to heat it , will see how it progresses lol

[@karolstruck9822]

Hey bud if you cut a hole in the bottom of that can and lifted it up you would probably get it to burn a lot more efficiently. They do this with Aladdin lamps and Aladdin heaters to increase the oxygen and get rid of the smoke that you have. Keep up the good work.

[@Liverpoollatest]

Meeeeeerrrrry Christmas Rob 🎅🎅🎅

[@randyclark8774]

Thanks for sharing.

[@donscottvansandt4139]

I've been saying we need a new way ... not only for power but our whole business of being human. And over and over I've heard "I'm only one person. I can't change the world." I think the only way to change is on a personal level. And your ideas play right along with that thought.

[@12thsonofisrael]

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄

[@JR-_-2010]

Love it. Very cool.

[@joelaichner3025]

Merry Christmas Robert , I know I sometimes rub people the wrong way , it’s a Gift !

[@HiNinqi]

This is excellent! We'll certainly try this when i can get some power tools to make the holes in the cans

[@hartmanartsource]

You might try using a piece of wood inside the can, and then hammering in a large nail to make the holes. Filing down the inside might not even be necessary, though it may be desirable.

[@justinw1765]

You can also use the old style can openers (very cheap). Your holes won't be round, but more triangular though.

[@MrMickleover]

Hope you had a great Xmas . Entertaining as usual.

[@triumphmanful]

what is xmas ?

[@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542]

If you look how the ancients made their olive oil lamps, they made sure to put most of the oil at, or even ever so slightly above the height of the wick. A relatively wide, flat, yet shallow container allows a lot of oil at the same relative height as the wick, thereby reducing the effect of gravity pulling downward on the oil.

[@justinw1765]

That is definitely one way. Another way is to super insulate the system, so that the oil or wax gets really hot and easily vaporizes (and before that, becomes thinner/more fluid). For example, in one wax burner I made/experimented with, I used a stainless steel vacuum insulated container as the main container. I got more blue and some green-blue flame than usual by doing that. I still need to fine tune the air ratio and funneling part of it.

[@regwatson2017]

By strange coincidence I tried doing something similar just yesterday (in that Vevor stove Rob made me have to have) with extra virgin olive oil as I had no ordinary cooking oil. I thought olive oil is supposed to be pretty pure oil so maybe it would work the same. It seems definitely thicker than ordinary vegetable oil and I found some ethanol gets it going better than methylated spirits because it seems to burn hotter thus getting the vaporising happening easier. I'm pretty sure you have a lot of smoke there because the length of the wick is important. If you made a burner so you have more control and can adjust the wick to the right air/fuel combination you will get very little smoke and soot and not a car out of tune ! I also got no oil smell either that my ageing nostrils could detect.

[@snapshot8006]

Great looking heater!!!..I want to build one!! ..question is how to make it more safe if knocked over..I used regular paper towels folded and wrapped tightly in place of the felt on the tin can heaters.. and after first burn they turn black and seem to work very well after that !! I used a corn tin can for the bottom and am considering securing the bottom one inch of a second corn tin can over the bottom can to stop some heat transfer to the bottom surface..I also wondered about securing a magnet to it to help it stay firmly in the reflector part..with the mesh screen in place. ..it makes putting the fire out a challenge too..but love the idea !!! Thanks for your great ideas!!!

[@FormerlyKnownAsAndrew]

Every night, I light an oil lamp in little clay pot called a diya. I use sesame oil. Or clarified butter (ghee). It's not for heating though. Pretty much just a nice source of warm light.

[@jamesross1003]

Nice! Here is an idea to make it burn cleaner: Heat it to boil off it's water content and then use gelatin to purify it. Then add paraffin to thin it down. It would make a beautiful fuel if done like that. I like the tidbit about the romans. Thanks Rob!

[@kadmow]

ha ha - (edit): I like - (grammatically improved- no condescension intended, much appropriated, oops) how you just told Rob how to make the fake biodiesel he described the other day (really just viscosity reduced oil) - I see wat you did, tricky, lol... (yes thinning down will make it wick better)...

[@jamesross1003]

@@kadmow Have to remove the water as well, that was what I made the point about. It is new olive oil and not used oil. Only if it has been heated for some time will the gelatin work as needed. Also, due to acidity if you don't cook out the water and some of the acid it will be corrosive. I think you missed the point there. Yes it is almost the same as what he did, almost but not entirely. No need to be condescending to me. Re-read the comment and then re-read this one. Then do it again just to be sure you understand. Not being tricky in any way. So no you did not see what I did there.

[@jamesross1003]

@@kadmow By the way, it is diesel(Bio-diesel). He told everyone that if you listened. Go troll someone else.

[@kadmow]

@@jamesross1003 : ha ha - can't you laugh at a joke (ie. you repeating it as if it were an original thought - lighten up fella - punchline ruined..)... - no it isn't bio-diesel it is a substitute (parafin + vege-oil ≠ actual biodiesel), which one shouldn't expectnot to destroy the injection system of a common rail diesel sengine. - BioDiesel is "transesterised" vegetable oil... (big words - different product) - Cheers and have a really great New year...

[@jamesross1003]

@@kadmow Apparently you can't read. I said go troll someone else. Secondly, there is a reason why used cooking oil is used. It wasn't a joke you made it was meant condescendingly. No other way to take it. Go bother someone else. By the way learn what transient cooking oil is. I'll tell you it is used cooking oil with the water removed and impurities removed. That is basically what Rob did in that video. That is what gelatin and cooking oil it does. Biodiesel is just usually made in a different way to remove impurities. The process also thins it down and it if purchased also contains ethanol rather than paraffin. The ethanol serves the same purpose in manufactured biodiesel as the paraffin Rob used.

[@jamesdim]

These videos are a great excuse to eat more cans of food!

[@MatthewHolevinski]

All this time and you still don't strike me as the kind of guy that says millimeters. :) Merry Christmas, Robert, I hope your holidays are wonderful.

[@markwarburton8563]

Awesome. I hope you had a more sumptuous Christmas dinner that wasn't just peas and beans!

[@outspokenwitness8744]

I have found those stretchy bandages you have in your first aid kit make excellent wicks for oil. Roll it up to about 3-4mm and works a treat.

[@misamsung6191]

Wouldn't the elastic in them cause problems?

[@modelnutty6503]

@@misamsung6191 yes, 2-3 layers old 100% cotton socks would be better.

[@outspokenwitness8744]

@@misamsung6191 Not that I have found. No soot once it's gets going. Works better than the cotton wool I previously used. Just handy if you don't have carbon felt.

[@theTeknoViking]

Nice tip! Stretchy bandages as in gauze?

[@outspokenwitness8744]

@@theTeknoViking Yes.

[@anth1655]

Merry Christmas

[@sartar18]

What a great day to make the video, since today is the 5th night of Chanukah, and they used olive oil lamps in the original Menorah!

[@rh598]

Being from the Pacific I have access to whale oil. It works very well in lamps such as yours. Well done mate!

[@triumphmanful]

whales still hunted for oil ???

[@angelusmendez5084]

Wicked trick 😎🙌

[@garyjones2582]

RMS, I recently subbed to your channel and love your videos.. A friend lives in France and recently purchased a chateau.. They are struggling with heating issues.. Any ideas on room heaters to help them out.. Thx for all your wonderful videos.. I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years.. Take care my friend...

[@justinw1765]

They probably need to focus on adding more insulation first and above anything else. If the place is not well insulated then whatever heating solution one does come up with, will ultimately be a lot more expensive and less effective. Insulation is the number one factor.

[@victoryfirst2878]

PEAS AND BEANS, LEGUMES that can be eaten with positive results for ones body. Then the metal enclosure can be used to heat and light your way in ones home. Just would love to get rid of the soot that can be seen coming from the heater. Do you think Robert you could get rid the soot part which would really make this a killer heater. Please give it a try fella.....This has potential. Robert have yourself a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year fella. With many more to come. Peace be with you fella too. 🙂

[@karlmyers6518]

Merry Christmas mate. The 3d printer has gone down a storm. It's running 24/7 I don't think it's going to stop for a while yet

[@historyisfake9153]

great 1!

[@stewartpalmer2456]

Now that reinforced my already high Christmas spirit right off. I'm feeling all Charles Dickensonish. Merry Christmas Dr. Smith. Please Sir, may we have some more? You should have been wearing old period clothes. Cheers mates.

[@slrnuttall]

Happy Chrimbo lads! Cheers

[@mohawksteel2215]

Thanks!

[@derickson1656]

Robert I find your burner/heater very similar to the older "Perfection heaters" from the old days. Please take a look at them on KZbin in particular the flame splitter that sits directly on top of the burner. I'm curious to see if would be an enhancement to your designs. Love your channel, thanks.

[@evanreed5347]

My current design for unhoused folks is a wick made of carbon felt also rolled with steel mesh to give it a wide burn area and some extra support and then I wrap it in a piece of copper wire to give it a foot and hold the rolled wick upright. Make sure your rolled wick touches the bottom of your container and sticks up at least 1.5 cm above the fue line. I put that in a metal cup of cooking oil and plant the metal cup in a plant pot full of sand as big as you want to move around. I cut some wire fence panel into 2 pieces 1 for my chimney/mantle/burn chute and one for my wind break reflector... I leave some extra fence wire sticking out so that they can be rolled up into 2 rings and staked down in the pot. The first ring should fit fairly tightly around the rim of your metal fuel container. Once it's staked in your plant pot cut a piece of steel mesh that will the space between the top of your ring and the rim of your fuel cup when it is rolled up and slide it in the ring. Roll and stake your outer ring to the same level or a little higher than the first ring. Cut a piece of foil that can be folded 3 or 4 times to add strength and wrap around the outer ring about 3/4ths of the way around to make a wind break and reflector. Cut sone extra fence material to make a grill top. Add some rubbing alcohol to your cup and wick and light it up. Ip put a cast iron skillet on top as a radiator and cooking surface big enough to keep rain from getting in the mesh burn chamber and set it outside in the California bomb cyclone and it worked for about 3 hours on a cup of oil with no maintenance. Heat light cooking and wind and water resistant... it actually helps to keep the sand or soil around your metal container wet to help spread the heat away from the fuel container. Without a heat sink of some type that doesn't get steam in your burn chute tge oil will get too hot and boil so violently that it blows itself out while getting hot oil all over the place... the burner or multiple could be planted in a garden with a more permant stove/oven set up using bricks and rocks and colored glass pieces and different pots and tops add nice fun variation and personalizing... I call it the Hurricane Hibachi or the Seed of Life... less than $1 to make with some hunting for materials (buy the carbon felt!!!!) And only requires scissors and wire cutters to build. THANK YOU ROBERT!!!! You made this possible too!!!! I am teaching some groups at a local cidery how to make them and hand out my first 100 Seeds next weekend. Cheers, Sir Smith please build one and show it off if you feel inclined 🥂

[@teddycunningham7568]

Merry Christmas and an inspired new year

[@Vibe77Guy]

We've had a bitter cold front here in the states, so I've been thinking about a solar heat collector. Using water/antifreeze, or possibly oil, to transfer the collected heat to a phase change tank of paraffin wax for the heat battery. I mentioned that in one of your sand battery video comments. Might hold enough heat to keep the well house thawed overnight.

[@ricci8497]

If the sand battery is heated up enough and say around the size of a refillable pressured gas bottle you should get around 5/7 hours worth of good heat output from it depending on the setup but don't expect it to heat the whole house

[@Vibe77Guy]

@@ricci8497 Sand batteries don't actually retain much heat in the flat solar collection range. They work much better when they can be heated above, say 500°F. Flat solar water based collection systems usually only get to around 150°F, at best boiling water at 212°F. Paraffin wax phase changes around 125°-150°F, so such systems are much simpler to DIY. The sand itself is actually a fairly poor storage medium were it not for it's ability to withstand the very high temps.

[@ricci8497]

@@Vibe77Guy It depends on the entire setup as I said I'm aware of several people who operate sand batteries and the mixed results they get from them a good setup can get 5/7 hours worth of good heat from them and have been operating them without their house central heating kicking in for some of them.

[@triumphmanful]

looks like an Aladdin kerosene lamp wick. Very bright and efficient lamps. Aladdin lamps are great. I have about 15 of different sizes with glass, brass, clay, copper, Stainless steel reservoirs. I keep them for emergency lighting when the power goes out.

[@marcfruchtman9473]

Great stuff... Could you make an Iron -Air Battery and show how it works? Happy Holidays.

[@scotttovey]

When you speak of a large fuel supply so that you don't have to keep filling it, I think of the humidifier I have. The unit has a 1 gallon tank with a lid that has a check valve in the center that prevents the water from spilling out when you invert the tank and have the lid on the bottom. When the tank is placed on it's perch, a center dowel pushes up on the check valve opening it. Then the water pours out and fills the reservoir. When the reservoir level reaches the check valve, air is not available and prevents water from exiting the tank. A similar solution would be to take two cans of the same size. Attach a feed tube to both near the bottom. Put the wick in one can and fill a two liter bottle and flip it over on top of the second can making sure that the bottle rests securely and is not wobbly.

[@banana1618]

great idea and experiment, Rob. Is there a way to 'use' all of the excessive gasses that create the smoke: a bit like a rocket olive oil lamp?

[@Anti_Woke]

Checking the price of olive and vegetable oil yesterday for this very reason. Also thinking of the coil pre-heater.

[@BSIII]

I've read Egyptians used flax seed oil for their lamps, which apparently is also good fuel.

in the US of A temperatures reached - 40 ºC and power shortages were reported... this kind of video is a important resource to theese days reality

[@CCoburn3]

Merry Christmas. Great video. Do you think the soot is caused by the fuel? Or is it more likely to be air flow?

[@TheAndreasMustola]

I have experimented more with the strange engine (you can get a lot of tips if you search for Hoffler engine too). If you use acetone you can make it start around 55'C. I plan to test 24,5% ammonia solution that should boil around 26'C. Adding a cooler just above the stone-heat-exchanger also make it run better and in lower temp.

[@evanreed5347]

I made a really simple oil burner in a glass jar with a piece of carbon felt (cut up towel worked too) wrapped in a piece of copper wire to make it stand upright. Put that in whatever setup you want but the glass gives nice light... a mantle around the lip would probably work too to make extra light as well... some of the oil burners on KZbin use a blower to make an air burner that sits above the oil reservoir out of some pipe with holes in it... that flame gets like 5-800 degrees F. I am thinking putting a heat driven turbine in there somewhere could generate the power necessary to charge a battery that could power the blower or charge a small device... check out biolites. Thanks for all the great ideas!!! Merry Christmas and happy holidays in general, Sir!✨️🙏✨️

[@GarlandFarms]

"sootless" 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@joen9275]

How long does it burn? Thanks for all the amazing videos!... 😊