How to Assemble and Light an Aladdin Oil Lamp

Jaclyn at Lehman's shows you the proper way to Assemble and Light an Aladdin Oil Lamp.

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Education

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• lehman's
• aladdin
• oil
• lamp
• light
• assemble

[LehmansHardware]

Aladdin recommends using only kerosene or Aladdin lamp oil in these lamps. Oils like olive or sunflower are too thick to travel up the wick.

[SH1974]

The old mantles are a bit radioactive, that's true.

But You don't have to eat them or crumble them in Your hand to breath the dust... ;)

The new (since about 10 or 15 years!) mantles are not radioactive anymore,

but they still contains thin glass fibres like asbestos did too (so don't sniff or breathe them!) that could damage Your lung.

But if You handle this mantles with care, You'll NOT get sick - promised!

[SoakedKarma]

True!! New mantles contain no radiation.. I have no Aladdin lamp newer than a Model 11 and use NOS (new old stock) Kone-Kap mantles when I can get them, they burn brighter... Otherwise I use modified new mantles for daily burning...

search wikipedia for Thorium_mantle

See "Safety of thorium" near bottom of page to see how little radioactivity your Grandma gives off..

[keukamoon]

@courtfarm1 NOT THE NEW MANTLES!

[MydogTobes]

@courtfarm1 OH hell, radio-active my butt...It is a thorium based mantle...Basically your Grandma sitting right next to you puts out more radio-activity than that pissy mantle...

[courtfarm1]

as i am a collector of oil lamps, i'm surprised that you didn't mention that mantles are "RADIO ACTIVE" It is recommended that you wash your hands thoroughly after handling a mantle!!!!

[courtfarm1]

i am a collecter of aladdin lamps & have quite a collection. i found an aladdin lamp once in a skip. On close observation of the lamp i found nothing wrong with it at all. confused as to why it was in a skip??? i found by smelling the font filler "PETROL" had been used!!! good grief no wonder it was in a skip can you imagine lighting a lamp with petrol in it. NOT RECOMMENDED.

[living0ffthegrid]

I just bought a Aladdin Genie 3 from Lehman's. The woman working in the "Oil Lamp" department Black Friday was VERY helpful. I had many questions before I picked out my lamp. I LOVE my Aladdin Genie 3, worth every penny.

[southernguy35]

@taoisilent If an other type of oil is used, it will only clog up the wick and likely NOT present a fire hazard. The fire hazard comes from people half reading the warnings about not using a certain type of fuel, just see the word *** and then fill the lamp with it.

Use Aladdin lamp fuel or K1 Kerosine only. The Aladdin Lamp Fuel will be far more expensive than K1 kerosine but you'll know what you're getting. Buying K1 these days, you don't know how long it's been in the storage tank.

[southernguy35]

@LehmansHardware The comment of the mantle being fragile is because it is after all mere ashes. They're basically cotton or other fibres spun into a shape and impregnated with radioactive material to help them glow. Some manufacturers do not use these materials anymore, but I've never seen any evidence of the amount of radiation emitted from these mantels as being harmful.

[southernguy35]

@LehmansHardware Exactly. 50 or 75 years ago when common oil lamps were used, people wouldn't think of using faster burning fluids as they would have been accustomed to using coal oil or kerosine lamps. While she is removing the shade for demonstration purposes, it's not necessary to always remove the shade when lighting a lamp. In fact, unscrewing and raising the gallery for a few seconds while lighting the lamp is enough to get it going without completely removing the chimney/flu.