Care and feeding a carbide lamp

Important points to get the best out of your lamp

[@Out-to-Pastor]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge on this. God bless this man and his family.

[@tonypapworth4902]

Thank you. The drip rate particularly useful

[@oddiebacca]

Thank you for the knowledge.

[@tantalus1394]

Thank you very much for your wonderful explanation!

[@TheBoatPirate]

a lot of chemistry geeks i see on here mention putting the residue, calcium hydroxide, in vinegar which produces water to neutralize it. and in case you dont know. you neutralize an acid with a base and neutralize a base with an acid. hydroxide of any sort is a base. so you use an acid to neutralize it. ive used orange juice(citric acid) to neutralize drano, which is sodium hydroxide. im sure vinegar would work better. no need for hazmat teams or hazardous waste disposal days with this stuff. 😂 much useful information on these antiques in this video. thank you! ❤

[@Ridgerunner-qi1xz]

THANK YOU! I have two carbide lamps I'm finishing cleaning at 12:30 a.m and in my haste, I didn't take note of which way the felt plate went. It took me going through a few videos till I found yours. Now I'm going to finish up and go to bed. LOL. Thanks again.

[@connordane7008]

I recently purchased one of those soft cloth caps with a carbide lamp attached exactly like the image shown in this video, not sure if its just really dirty or intended to be white as depicted, though. Very interesting, regardless! Hoping to be able to get the lamp operable as its complete with all the parts and seems in near perfect condition. Just needs a good cleaning from what I can tell.

[@WayPointSurvival]

Excellent tutorial and great points. Thank you!

[@willb5240]

Thank you sir. Great information.

[@alexanders.nurell1134]

very informative...keep on working...

[@VA7BC]

Very interesting. Tnx

[@leechjim8023]

This poor guy has the shakes.

[@Sodbusterrod]

Many people don’t mention everything they see.

[@Alloverthecarpet1]

My great uncle's hands did that. It's a sign that you spent your life making an honest living! Nothing to be ashamed of.

[@nealbullington8301]

A byproduct of the chemical reaction is heat so the lamp can get quite hot. By actual measurement, the convex side of the reflector can reach 84 degrees F, the water reservoir 101 degrees F, and the carbide can 116 degrees F.