Making lamp oil from animal fat

[Mobsta]

Found a tutorial on ehow which took multiple days, plus refrigeration, but produced good quality lamp oil.

I dont suppose for a minute anyone here knows how to make a flammable liquid from pork fat, more quickly.
Google isnt being very helpful today.

[justayellowbadge]

Just checking in.

[Life Saab Itch]

Mobsta said:

Found a tutorial on ehow which took multiple days, plus refrigeration, but produced good quality lamp oil.

I dont suppose for a minute anyone here knows how to make a flammable liquid from pork fat, more quickly.
Google isnt being very helpful today.

lard will burn via a wick like a candle.

[Mobsta]

Life Saab Itch said:

Mobsta said:

Found a tutorial on ehow which took multiple days, plus refrigeration, but produced good quality lamp oil.

I dont suppose for a minute anyone here knows how to make a flammable liquid from pork fat, more quickly.
Google isnt being very helpful today.

lard will burn via a wick like a candle.

It will, but it took 2 days to make.

Saw a TV programme in which a flammable material was made in - oh I dont know - perhaps 20 minutes.
It burned like petrol. And didnt take 2 days.

Havent been able to find anything on youtube either.
Edited to add: Burned like petrol on a flaming rag.

[deadtom]

presumably you just need a solvent that will dissolve the fat? lye maybe?

[Mobsta]

deadtom said:

presumably you just need a solvent that will dissolve the fat? lye maybe?

I believe its possible to do, in the wild, with no additives, just a pan. IIRC there was a sequence of events to follow. No clue what the order was in the preparatory method.

[Grenoble]

justayellowbadge said:

Just checking in.

You know there is a "watch thread" function right? If not, ask the handy mod around here. He's helpful though prone to blasphemy.

[rohrl]

To make clean burning fuel oil you'd be much better off starting with a dead whale than pissing about with bacon rind.

[M@verick]

Mobsta said:

Found a tutorial on ehow which took multiple days, plus refrigeration, but produced good quality lamp oil.

I dont suppose for a minute anyone here knows how to make a flammable liquid from pork fat, more quickly.
Google isnt being very helpful today.

Are you on any serious medication ?, or is it just piss and cider driving all this ?.

R.

[Pablo Escobar]

Maybe melt it down and collect the thinner, more runny stuff from the top and add some cooking oil or something?

[Pesty]

A whale is what you need.

[Grenoble]

Pesty said:

A whale is what you need.

Harpoon and a night out in Reading?

[Mobsta]

Pablo Escobar said:

Maybe melt it down and collect the thinner, more runny stuff from the top and add some cooking oil or something?

The best I can find, without cooking oil (thats cheating) is boiling down the fat with water to very slowly break it up. I dont recall if the lumps were kept or discarded, or what other filtration was required.

[Pablo Escobar]

Some way of making it more volatile is what is needed. I got a crap grade in A level Chemistry so it's beyond my expertise afraid. I saw Ray Mears make oil out of Birch trees on 'telly and that was well flammable st that was.

[Mobsta]

Pablo Escobar said:

Some way of making it more volatile is what is needed. I got a crap grade in A level Chemistry so it's beyond my expertise afraid. I saw Ray Mears make oil out of Birch trees on 'telly and that was well flammable st that was.

I saw something similar. Using trees to make a flammable oil sounds more impressive.

[Mobsta]

M@verick said:

Are you on any serious medication ?

No more than PH folk who take interest in other odd things, like abandoned buildings (isnt that thread nearly 100 pages?)

Grenoble said:

Pesty said:

A whale is what you need.

Harpoon and a night out in Reading?

[Simpo Two]

M@verick said:

Mobsta said:

Found a tutorial on ehow which took multiple days, plus refrigeration, but produced good quality lamp oil.

I dont suppose for a minute anyone here knows how to make a flammable liquid from pork fat, more quickly.
Google isnt being very helpful today.

Are you on any serious medication ?, or is it just piss and cider driving all this ?.

His wife is 'on holiday' apparently...

Isn't the process called rendering?

[TheEnd]

Simpo Two said:

His wife is 'on holiday' apparently...

Isn't the process called rendering?

Rendering? as in making up an image on a computer screen?


Yea, sounds about right.

[Celtic Dragon]

Pablo Escobar said:

Some way of making it more volatile is what is needed. I got a crap grade in A level Chemistry so it's beyond my expertise afraid. I saw Ray Mears make oil out of Birch trees on 'telly and that was well flammable st that was.

Your talking about Birch tar, or black gold. Its not that flammable, as it was used to waterproof ships rigging, hulls and sails.

That is easy to make, as you are effectively putting the wood through a pressure cooker.

Another form of this comes from the High Arctic if the form of an Inuit Qulliq (pronounced Kuglik)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjjxUE6XSdQ

Edited by Celtic Dragon on Tuesday 30th April 09:37

[8Ace]

I have thought the same. It culminated in me and a mate getting very pissed, making chilli and pouring off the beef fat into a container with a wick. Once solidified I tried to light it and was absolutely delighted to find it worked.

The flame was about 0.5cm high and burning it made the house stink but it was definitely worth it.