Hi Todd and All,
Try boat supply stores for the Perko brand of
lamps and others with circular wicks.
Can someone with experience with wick heaters
on filtered WVO and biodiesel.
Winter is coming up and I want to heat with
WVO this winter.
Thanks,
jerry dycus
--- Appal Energy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have accurate idea as to where one can
> find a contemporary supplier of Argand style oil
> lamps?
>
> These are circular wicked, with a draught tube
> running through the center of the wick to oxygenate
> the combustion process. The flame burns on both the
> interior and exterior of the circular wick,
> providing considerably greater candle power than the
> traditional raw oil lamps.
>
> The same tube transfers heat to the oil in the fuel
> chamber, pre-heating it, permitting greater wicking
> properties for oils that normally do not wick well.
>
> Chimney is the norm.
>
> Circa 1784 is when the patent was filed by Ami
> Argand.
>
> US Patent & Trademark Office only has records on
> line back to 1790.
>
> Todd
> Appal Energy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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