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#265994 02/16/12 10:25 AM
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I bought a DVD that is basically a wonderful tour of the Holland & Holland factory. Each step of the gunmaking process is explained. The workmen are all using an oil lamp to generate soot to help them with inletting. I bought an oil lamp on Ebay and I have filled it with lamp oil. I am not getting the amount of soot that they were getting at H&H. Is the height of the wick critical or is it type of oil that is needed to genereate adequate soot?

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I use plain kerosene in mine. It may be that lamp oil burns too clean, not sure.

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I think you'll find they are using carbide lamps, the flames of which leave a fine sooty dust on parts - human or otherwise!

We used to use them to blacken up the sights on our rifles before shooting matches back in the 60s and 70s

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While I have seen them called alcohol lamps, kerosene seems to be a popular fuel.


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Kerosene or stove oil illuminated my boyhood. Turning up the wick soots the shade. I keep three table lamps for when power fails, right cosy with dry hardwood in the Resolute.

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There's a Midwayusa dvd on British sxs shotguns that might be worth getting. It's been mention on and off in the past by others here.

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I didn't have a lamp and used a candle. Actually it was for fitting a new barrel.

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I have nothing intelligent to add here, just an anecdote. In several books I saw the admonishment "ONLY use metal lamps, never glass" for years. Only recently I saw the edict explained and it made perfect sense.

You don't use a glass lamp because if it hits the floor, it is nothing but a Molotov cocktail.

And then the lightbulb went on as to why the lamp must always be metal for purposes of stock fitting.

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The assorted lamps those guys are using in the H&H video are filled with Parafin. Gives off a very sooty flame.

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Why not use good old non-flammable, non-sooty inletting black?

Unless you just like greasy soot...

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