Widths of the wicks are indicated along with the type of burner for each.
Center draft oil lamp wick replacement.
Later style center draft wick winder lamp.
2 9 16 store lamp.
Since 2008 oil lamp rescue.
No photograph is shown in courters center.
Pre charred ready for installation.
Lamp wicks 23 oil lamp collars caps 27 oil lamp chimneys 64 fancy lamp chimneys 6 hanging lamp hardware 29 lamp parts designed to fit aladdin brand lamps 29 oil kerosene glass lamp fonts 19 shade holders kerosene electric lamps 24 oil kerosene style fonts font caps and oil tanks 7 miniature oil lamp parts 24.
If you decide to remove the wick completely take particular note of how the wick is secured around the draft tube so that you can re assemble it correctly.
Center draft circular wick.
Wicks eventually burn away and should be replaced with one of the same width that fits the oil lamp s burner.
Wicks for most oil kerosene lamps these are the wicks that i keep in stock.
The burners shown will fit eagle scoville victor queen ann miller kosmos p a jones russell acorn gem nutmeg banner fireside white flame argand dorset risdon and other standard burners.
Now i have wicks for virtually all of them.
This web site contains antique center draft oil lamps that have been rescued by oil lamp rescue after the lamps are rescued two categories are offered for sale still in oil never converted or returned to oil operation and converted to electricity.
Burners collars chimneys wicks tripods for conventional flatwick lamps.
Junior and other center draft lamps.
The b h trophy lamp on the right has been electrified but in an emergency the socket can be pulled out the flame spreader put back in the lamp fueled and in less than an hour it is again a working fuel lamp.
When measured flat wick is approx 4 3 16 wide and 9 1 2 long.
Oil lamps provide light without electricity by using a wick to absorb lamp oil and carry it from the lamp tank through a brass burner into a glass chimney.
Many of these lamps were works of art and survived the lack of suitable wicks simply for that factor.
Also various sizes of circular round wick for center draft lamps.
Has rescued restored and sold nearly 300 center draft oil lamps dating from the 1880s 1930s.
For later style oil lamps where the wick and the wick raiser is incorporated into the burner the procedure is a little different.