Carbide Lamp

[Roy]

Hi Zelph,
Mine never made it across the water. I think the movers took it as a "souvenir". It had a bicycle clip (to fit a bracket common on all British bikes back then) and was a little beaten up. I think it probably needed a new jet because it would never maintain a consistent flame regardless of how I adjusted the drip.

[zelph]

Probably has a bad seal. A wrap or two of teflon tape woulda cured it

I think someone should design a stove that operates on that carbide/water principle for it's fuel. Seems like it would be easy enough.

My brother and I used carbide inside a glass 1 gallon jar that had the lid glued on tight. The lid had a small hole in it of a size the we could inject water to start the gas forming and had a cinder block tied to the finger hole on the bottle's top. We threw the bottle overboard(we were in our flat bottomed John Boat) rowed a small distance away and waited for it to blow. we hoped we would be able to catch fish the scientific way!!!!!!!!

It never blew, only bubbled like crazy

We had heard that it was a sure fire way to get some fish in a short time. We got skunked!!!!!