I have a Simon Willard grandfather clock which has an automatic candle system like this to keep the candle lit behind the clock face at night. But it automatically unreels the candle until the final section for the length of night you set.
I’d love to see that as well! My neighbor is really into grandfather clocks. She has four or five. I know the last one she bought at an auction cost her $19k. I’m sure she would know about the one you have!
yes, but how much it candle? if you only wanted 40 minutes of candle burning, just do is in the video a chop the top off a conventual candle leaving only 2 inches left to burn? (I was burn a long after candle burn was a everyday thing? but time with a candle must of been a thing somewhere?
@@dh2032 these candles existed before we had electricity, typically you had 2 of these per room, and while one is cooling, you light another, that way you dont go without candlelight for several hours a day, and these left no mess to clean and were easy to setup again once they cooled that they were very good to have, but yes, having just ONE wasnt super useful, then again back then people didnt really stay up late at night, so 40 minutes to do last minute cleaning before bed was honestly perfectly fine
@TedBacon don't worry, that's just the Idiocracy kicking in. Let's try one you may be able to handle: If you have one bucket that holds 5 gallons, and another bucket that holds 4 gallons, how many buckets do you have?
The people who complained it didn't burn as long as it claimed might have had it set up with a slight breeze which made it burn faster. It is very cool looking! Thank you!!
Thing is, how many people are actually measuring it? Most people, and I know from experience, cannot judge distances accurately by eye unless they are into a hobby or profession that they work with precise measurements relevant to the estimation. I run an airsoft field, and 90% of people can't tell 50 feet vs 100 feet for safety. These are people that play all the time too. The chance of a random person having outside influences either by mis-measuring, nor measuring at all, or having a bunch of fans or whatever is pretty high compared to a ventilation free film room.
Pretty sure he films in Las Vegas, which is about 2,000' elevation. Having grown up in Las Vegas, it's definitely enough elevation to notice a difference whenever we went on vacation to California (usually Disneyland) which is a LOT closer to sea level).
Wick size is probably the biggest factor. I bet the instructions say to trim the wick. The 20 mins per inch is probably based on a certain size of wick.
@@SirNomad bro his entire personality is set around HB. huntington beach. which is in socal. he shoots plenty of his videos AT THE BEACH. i live right by huntington beach and it wouldnt make any sense for this dude to live in vegas. i dont even know where you get that idea from. theres no beaches in vegas, where would he film all his beach shots? and where would he get all his huntington beach shirts he wears in every video? LIKE THIS ONE.
More likely that people didn't measure it at all, mis-measured it, or had some sort of airflow. Elevation can effect things like this to a degree, but in a lot of cases user error is at fault.
RachLovesLife bought the upright model and she liked hers too. I know that back in the 17th and 18th centuries, it wasn’t uncommon to sleep for a few hours, get up in the middle of the night to do some work and then go back to bed. This kind of candle would allow someone to do some of that midnight work without worrying about falling asleep and forgetting the candle. Or it would allow them to set a “timer”, so to speak, and go back to bed when it starts fading. I know the part about working in the middle of the night because I saw a History Channel piece about how sleep habits have changed over the centuries. I’m just supposing that this could have been one of the uses for this kind of candle.
This reminds me of the Ephrata Cloister religious community in Pennsylvania that would sleep from 9pm to midnight, get up and wait for the coming of Christ, and, the coming having not happened, would sleep again from 2 to 5.
Neat contraption. I don't see why you couldn't advance it early with it still lit, as long as you do it well before the flame reaches the clip it should be cool to the touch. They probably say that for liability reasons, but nudging it up every 20 minutes would probably work fine. I can also imagine a version of this with the coil under light spring tension and the clip having some kind of heat-triggered mechanical advance where it nudges the candle forward once the flame burns low enough to trip a bimetallic strip or something. Could burn for as long as you needed that way!
I'd expect the liquified wax to spill tbh. Especially since they have the note of needing to wait 20 minutes before lighting it again. That'd be plenty of time to let the wax resolidify at least a bit.
That's called a courting candle. I remember seeing one the Metropolitan museum in nyc. If you do a search, you should be able to find other versions of it that matches what you described. I remember an elderly gent that told me while laughing, "That's so the father at that time could set a time limit on dates, when they didn't come back home, he'd grab his shotgun and figure out if a wedding is in their immediate future."
It's a cool idea, but I was expecting it to be an 80 hour continuous burn. I'm not really sure what you would need an 80 hour candle for, but it would provide a usage that couldn't simply be reproduced by just buying a few normal candles. As it stands, it is more of a curiosity than having any real purpose over other candles, as far as I can tell. Edit: I suppose the short burn time and extinguishing could be a selling feature. Tea candles take 4 hours to self extinguish.
Try trimming the wick to 1/4" before lighting and you should get a longer burn time. My wife and I make candles and that's just a common burn tip that we share with our customers.
an old yacht i lived on had a brass gimbelled candle lamp. a glass chimney with a weighted bob to keep it upright regardless of the boat's heel. the really clever aspect of the lamp was an internal spring which kept the wick snug against the aperture until the candle was completely consumed. it would give a warm light for four or five hours...
Can you buy refills? I bet someone makes candles like this somewhere so they could be gotten. I want to see the mold the candle was made in. When I was around 9 or 10 my mom bought antique candle molds, they were like a few hundred years old, and we made candles with them. It was pretty fun. She made candles before this, like she had all these groovy candle molds from the 70s and early 80s, but the antique molds she bought were wood for mass-producing candles. Each mold made like 20 candles so we had a lot of medium candles after that.
The mold could be a long, straight tube (the candle is coiled after de-molding otherwise is impossible to keep the wick in the center!) or maybe there is no mold at all and the candle is simply extruded using warm wax (soft, but not liquid) and a press.
These candles have been around for a long time. It is made of natural materials so it is going to vary by a couple minutes, especially if you are eyeballing the measurement. I got mine off sportsman's guide, but I have seen them on several other online catalog companies.
I have a vertical one. The other day when i was burning it, it did not self extinguish. I smelled something burning and it went down under the clip and was burning it. Keep an eye on it when you have it lit.
A thermocouple set to the side of the candle could theoretically power a SMALL motor that could slowly turn the candle and hold the clamp slightly open so that the candle could be slowly fed upwards allowing for continual use. Add a potentiometer and this will allow for speed adjustment. Add in a power button and you could have a candle that would continually feed as fast as it burned, but when "turned off" it would stop feeding/close the clamp and you would have 40 mins to do any remaining tasks before the candle extinguished itself.
Found one of these at a thrift store for something like $6.79 a couple yrs ago. People behind me in line were trying to buy it off of me, but I declined, because I liked the design. Researched it after getting home, & these were selling from $30-70, & they're based on courting candles of the 1700s-1800s. When the candle burned out, the suitor had to go home. Mine's mostly just a decorator piece right now, but will be used if power goes out. Replacing these is a tad pricey, as they are a bit of a specialty candle. Saw this on your 2023 annual review, first. Got my Range Mate Pro based on that yr's review for my locker @ work, so I can have crispy microwave food.
A bit expensive here in Australia, AUD65, if it was a straight conversion from USD30 it would be AUD47. But they look good, there is also a Christmas Tree version that would make a great centrepiece for Christmas dinner or lunch.
That's a courting candle, used back in the day when teen kids were dating, if the father liked you he would let it burn longer if he didn't he would shorten the candle and when ever the candle goes out its time for the young man to go home
They are great for a garden summer house, but in reality I used candles and oil lamps for a couple months for lighting in a small cabin, the soot is a big issue.
I think there must be other factors that make the candle burn faster or slower. E.g. in warm temperatures, it should burn faster bc the wax is at s higher temperature from the get go and will melt and turn into gas faster.
I love the way this looks. I wonder how well it did and here you are with. Thanks for the demo. On a side note I love that shelving unit behind you. It’s very unique with all the different sections. 😊
That looks amazingly like a wax jack. The coil is much thicker than is traditional. The pole that is holding the clamp should have a second arm that holds a melting bowl. sealing wax would be placed in the bowel and the coil candle would melt the sealing wax. You would normally only expose a small amount of coil for each melting. The wax jack is designed with fire safety in mind. The weight of the machine helps prevent it from being knocked over, and the shape of the clamp ensures that the coil-candle extinguishes itself. I suspect this is a modified wax jack design that is being sold as a novelty.
you could if it's not too far burned down but wax will spill, and clamp gets hot when flame gets near bottom so that's why they recommend letting it cool.@@idiotburns
@@ranger178 yes that was easily inferred by the video, but if they had a little set of teeth on a gear you could control with a mechanism you could feed it with out touching a hot spot, $100 version
I bought one of these as a gift for my husband last year - an olive green vertical one - different manufacturer but, he quite liked it, as do I. We don't burn it often but, it looks pretty cool just on the table.
It's neat. I will always have a soft spot for oil lamps even though I really only burn them in winter. I use premium oil because cheap stuff will give me headaches. Even the ultrapure, smokeless stuff Medallion makes gives me headaches. I don't have any problem with unscented candle's. I've never burned beeswax candles. I do like that this coiled candle lasts for a long time and isn't messy to refill.
Got the vertical one. Biggest complaint is getting it in and out of the clip, which isn't really that big of a complaint honestly. Also The knob tightening the clamp to the center post on mine has basically 2 tightnesses, either too tight to be able to spin the clamp to line up to pull the next length of candle through, or so loose, that it feels like it'll come off. Though, admittedly, they may have intended you to loosen it, rotate, and retighten. But it seems like making it where it has enough resistance that it doesn't just move on it's own, but where you can gently turn it without having to have to loosen and retighten. That being said, these are minor observations. All in all, I love mine.
I dunno. I think you could probably do a continuous one. Same design, except for a spring turning mechanism for the spool, and some way to allow the candle guide/drip pan to move smoothly along with the candle end. It might even turn slowly enough that the tension from the candle itself could pull it along. Biggest problem would probably be the system to allow it to come up through the drip pan, because I can see it getting gummed up with wax or wanting to shave the candle.
Very pleasant looking, I bought the indoor mini fire pit you reviewed, and I'm in love with it...I sit it inside a terra cotta plate with high edges for safety in case of a crack, but that's amazing too. This one is a must for people like me who suffer power outages on a regular basis.
Nicely done video. I was just hoping the candle had a automatic feed mechanism whereby it would feed like 1 inch of the candle every 20 minutes. We often get power outages in the winter and early Spring due to downed power lines and so me and my wife often sit at the table and play cards and board games by candle light, BUT she cheats and so I cant take my eyes away from the game while having to adjust the candle lol
we have had one for many years and it is a nice decoration I like the fact that it does not go too long and self extinguishes you can also get a green holiday candle for it.
I have one that's vertical. It provides a nice ambiance at a party. Back in the day, it was called a 'suiter's' candle, a suiter being a 'man who courts or woos a woman, especially for a romantic relationship or marriage'. When the man was at the woman's home for a short, supervised visit, the mother or father would light the candle allowing for a defined visiting time. When it went out, it was to 'say goodbye'!
Unrelated to the actual content of the video, but thank you for listing the background music credit in the description. As a fan of chill minimal deep-tech, my ears perked up when I heard it 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Cool review! I wish you would have done a 3-inch one just to see what would have happened. But I understand if you don't want to risk messing it up also.
I don't think it would be difficult to set up a couple of servo motors and an Arduino with a program to automate that candle. You would need to loosen the clamp enough for the candle to slide through.
Sounds like an all-natural timer. Need to cook your food for 20 minutes? Just light an inch of the candle. Might also be a cool mood/timer thing for things like Dungeons and Dragons where you want to put some kind of timed event/stress on the players and so you light the candle and say when it goes out that the time is up (you can even mess with them and measure more or less than you actually want to make it "appear that time sped up")
Of course, the moment I saw this, I wanted to motorize it so it would automatically feed the spiral up through the clamp a tiny bit at a time, and thus let you keep it lit for the entire 80 hours if you wanted to do so.. ;)
A gear reduction system for the feed rate required and use the flame to heat a sterling engine to turn the feed mechanism and it will be a self running system.
there are actually vertical versions of it in the shape of snowmen. My family has had one above the fireplace for decades at this point, it would be an amazing gift for the holidays!
It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch that some kind of smooth metal guidance rail/guard could be added that helps it form when unwinding the spool, maybe add a handle to help rotating. With that guidance system in theory u only would have to deal with rotating it and not fiddling with it alligning. Staying in period some kind of clock like mechanism could do the work of unwinding it slowly, this could have been possible in the period but ofcourse not something for the common man at all! Clocks where expensive to begin with, and having such mechanisms for a candle would be excessive, but technically feasible.
Well, this coming from the 1600 as you said and steampunk theme being based in the Victorian era and being all about making everything you can mechanical, brass, and steam powered which would require heat be it as something as mundane as keeping tea warm, this contraption would be far from out of place in such theme, even if it is 200 years off. Im sure they shared the mentality of "If it works perfectly, no need to fix it".
I have a couple of these I found in a discount store a decade ago. The wax is wound in the shape of a pumpkin, but otherwise works the same. I like them, for what they are.
@@markylon So you mean like any other normal candle? That will never not be a risk, it would still be a nice feature if they implimented a little motor that advanced by an inch every 20 mins that you could simply switch on and off, perhaps on a timer switch.
I imagine the limit is to prevent the candle from falling while burning and causing a fire. It also prevents large puddles of wax from forming on the device, possibly clogging it, or spilling over onto the table. I'm sure a redesign could come with something that lasts longer.
I just tested out a 4" segment and I don't think it would be stable much beyond that, but it did work. It lasted 84 minutes. I'll have footage of that in my next member's update tomorrow!
I have one - the horizontal model like yours. While I haven't timed it carefully, it seems pretty much what it says on the box - Nice ambiance piece. I'm happy with mine.
I'm willing to bet that the maximum stick-out of two inches is because anything past that and the candle risks bending over and spilling hot wax all over.
Since it won't burn for 80 hours continuously, the coil just seems like an unnecessary complication since you'd get the same result with just a pile of separate 2 inch candles and a holder. It needs more space too because the middle of the coil is just empty space. But heyyyy, it's funkeeeeee!
I mean I guess it is a good idea, I burn a lot of candles and they do not last very long. At least with this candle when it runs low you can just twist it up and get another few hours.
Ehhhh it needs some kind of temperature control, a lot of people have trouble keeping the wax from cracking or deforming. There are also auto-snuff clips that attach to normal upright candles.
Beeswax is natural, of course you won't get 100% the same results with every candle. That's just part of being nature. Criticism for that is more on the person than on the brand. It's like trying to buy the exact same carrot twice. Won't happen.
@ksavage681 With my luck, if I did that, it would burn down my house and fire investigators would pinpoint that it was because I had pulled out 4 inches and not the recommended 2, causing my insurance claim to be denied.
This is great but what happens once it’s done? Can you buy a refill? That seems to be a lot of waste on the metal. At least with glass jars I can recycle them.
Cool stuff - special kudos to the marketer for not trying to make it seem like they have come up with the idea. Seems so common now, isn't it? Soemone finds some forgotten concept or old product nobody remembers, of course they're gonna market it as something original... As for this thing, the only thing I'm struggling is trying to think of a reason I would need candle light for a set period of time. But that's just me. Also, it could still be a conversation piece for sure.
I think the candles are a high percentage Beeswax ( like Church Altar Candles) we have unbleached Beeswax candles for Funerals, they are very orange in colour
I've heard that candles straight from the freezer can burn much longer than candles at room temperature. I assume this one would do do too--I wouldn't thaw it first.
he's not acting; he's reacting; years of inane reality has brought us to this . Actors usually go to school to learn thier trade; youtubers just stand in front of a mirror and mug
I have the vertical version of this, bought it years ago off of Jack Threads. Love it but I burn it rarely. I'd burn it more if I could find replacement wax coil .... I have my doubts about it being bee's wax; I don't get that smell my bee's wax candles give me.
ah learn that there is a box under videos. said box contains info. amazon and even walmart sells replacement coils in beeswax, citronella, red and green.
I was thinking the same thing. If you manually advanced it every 20 mins, it would be effectively continuous. However there is a chance of burning yourself, which is probably why the instructions don't suggest that.
Would have liked to see you buck the instructions and pull a three inch length for an hour burn. Curious as to if that would have worked or would have produced a problem.
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I have a Simon Willard grandfather clock which has an automatic candle system like this to keep the candle lit behind the clock face at night. But it automatically unreels the candle until the final section for the length of night you set.
That sounds incredibly neat and interesting!
Pictures! Pictures! Must see this!
I’d love to see that as well! My neighbor is really into grandfather clocks. She has four or five. I know the last one she bought at an auction cost her $19k. I’m sure she would know about the one you have!
A clock that automatically eats candles all night. Sounds hella expensive to buy and operate, that clock probably belonged to aristocracy.
That's what I was expecting when I saw the thumb for the video.
I appreciate how efficient it is with the wax. There is no leftovers or mess
yes, but how much it candle? if you only wanted 40 minutes of candle burning, just do is in the video a chop the top off a conventual candle leaving only 2 inches left to burn? (I was burn a long after candle burn was a everyday thing? but time with a candle must of been a thing somewhere?
@@dh2032 these candles existed before we had electricity, typically you had 2 of these per room, and while one is cooling, you light another, that way you dont go without candlelight for several hours a day, and these left no mess to clean and were easy to setup again once they cooled that they were very good to have, but yes, having just ONE wasnt super useful, then again back then people didnt really stay up late at night, so 40 minutes to do last minute cleaning before bed was honestly perfectly fine
@@dh2032My head hurts after reading this
@@CADClickerhis England is bad
@TedBacon don't worry, that's just the Idiocracy kicking in. Let's try one you may be able to handle:
If you have one bucket that holds 5 gallons, and another bucket that holds 4 gallons, how many buckets do you have?
The people who complained it didn't burn as long as it claimed might have had it set up with a slight breeze which made it burn faster. It is very cool looking! Thank you!!
or they might not have actually had 2 inches
@@wantsanewvehicle The length would affect burn duration, but probably not burn _rate_
Thing is, how many people are actually measuring it? Most people, and I know from experience, cannot judge distances accurately by eye unless they are into a hobby or profession that they work with precise measurements relevant to the estimation.
I run an airsoft field, and 90% of people can't tell 50 feet vs 100 feet for safety. These are people that play all the time too.
The chance of a random person having outside influences either by mis-measuring, nor measuring at all, or having a bunch of fans or whatever is pretty high compared to a ventilation free film room.
Or they might have thought that the "candle by the hour" should last an hour and not just approx. 40 minutes.
@@glennscott5587 Just do a 3-inch tall candle
Candles (and oil lamps etc.) can burn at different rates depending on things like altitude, humidity, and room temperature, just to start with. 👍
Pretty sure he films in Las Vegas, which is about 2,000' elevation. Having grown up in Las Vegas, it's definitely enough elevation to notice a difference whenever we went on vacation to California (usually Disneyland) which is a LOT closer to sea level).
Wick size is probably the biggest factor. I bet the instructions say to trim the wick. The 20 mins per inch is probably based on a certain size of wick.
@@David-jx4gw They do say to trim the wick if it's past 1/4 inch :)
@@SirNomad bro his entire personality is set around HB. huntington beach. which is in socal. he shoots plenty of his videos AT THE BEACH. i live right by huntington beach and it wouldnt make any sense for this dude to live in vegas. i dont even know where you get that idea from. theres no beaches in vegas, where would he film all his beach shots? and where would he get all his huntington beach shirts he wears in every video? LIKE THIS ONE.
More likely that people didn't measure it at all, mis-measured it, or had some sort of airflow. Elevation can effect things like this to a degree, but in a lot of cases user error is at fault.
RachLovesLife bought the upright model and she liked hers too.
I know that back in the 17th and 18th centuries, it wasn’t uncommon to sleep for a few hours, get up in the middle of the night to do some work and then go back to bed. This kind of candle would allow someone to do some of that midnight work without worrying about falling asleep and forgetting the candle. Or it would allow them to set a “timer”, so to speak, and go back to bed when it starts fading. I know the part about working in the middle of the night because I saw a History Channel piece about how sleep habits have changed over the centuries. I’m just supposing that this could have been one of the uses for this kind of candle.
Yeah, it only really changed a lot because of the electric light, allowing people to stay up later when it got dark.
This reminds me of the Ephrata Cloister religious community in Pennsylvania that would sleep from 9pm to midnight, get up and wait for the coming of Christ, and, the coming having not happened, would sleep again from 2 to 5.
they were burning the midnight oil
They did polyphasic sleep?
@@itoibo4208 and often it'd lead to the beds are burning
Neat contraption. I don't see why you couldn't advance it early with it still lit, as long as you do it well before the flame reaches the clip it should be cool to the touch. They probably say that for liability reasons, but nudging it up every 20 minutes would probably work fine.
I can also imagine a version of this with the coil under light spring tension and the clip having some kind of heat-triggered mechanical advance where it nudges the candle forward once the flame burns low enough to trip a bimetallic strip or something. Could burn for as long as you needed that way!
I'd expect the liquified wax to spill tbh. Especially since they have the note of needing to wait 20 minutes before lighting it again. That'd be plenty of time to let the wax resolidify at least a bit.
That's called a courting candle. I remember seeing one the Metropolitan museum in nyc. If you do a search, you should be able to find other versions of it that matches what you described. I remember an elderly gent that told me while laughing, "That's so the father at that time could set a time limit on dates, when they didn't come back home, he'd grab his shotgun and figure out if a wedding is in their immediate future."
It's a cool idea, but I was expecting it to be an 80 hour continuous burn. I'm not really sure what you would need an 80 hour candle for, but it would provide a usage that couldn't simply be reproduced by just buying a few normal candles. As it stands, it is more of a curiosity than having any real purpose over other candles, as far as I can tell.
Edit: I suppose the short burn time and extinguishing could be a selling feature. Tea candles take 4 hours to self extinguish.
"lets make a candle thats called candle by the hour, but it only runs for 45 minutes at a time" XD
Try trimming the wick to 1/4" before lighting and you should get a longer burn time. My wife and I make candles and that's just a common burn tip that we share with our customers.
an old yacht i lived on had a brass gimbelled candle lamp. a glass chimney with a weighted bob to keep it upright regardless of the boat's heel. the really clever aspect of the lamp was an internal spring which kept the wick snug against the aperture until the candle was completely consumed. it would give a warm light for four or five hours...
Spring-loaded candle lamps use to be pretty common. When I was a kid just about everyone had at least one for when we lost power due to a storm.
IIRC, these used to be use to set time limits for courting / dating way back. They had to have her back before the candle went out.
Can you buy refills? I bet someone makes candles like this somewhere so they could be gotten. I want to see the mold the candle was made in. When I was around 9 or 10 my mom bought antique candle molds, they were like a few hundred years old, and we made candles with them. It was pretty fun. She made candles before this, like she had all these groovy candle molds from the 70s and early 80s, but the antique molds she bought were wood for mass-producing candles. Each mold made like 20 candles so we had a lot of medium candles after that.
yup, you can buy refills at the link.
The mold could be a long, straight tube (the candle is coiled after de-molding otherwise is impossible to keep the wick in the center!) or maybe there is no mold at all and the candle is simply extruded using warm wax (soft, but not liquid) and a press.
These candles have been around for a long time. It is made of natural materials so it is going to vary by a couple minutes, especially if you are eyeballing the measurement. I got mine off sportsman's guide, but I have seen them on several other online catalog companies.
I have a vertical one. The other day when i was burning it, it did not self extinguish. I smelled something burning and it went down under the clip and was burning it. Keep an eye on it when you have it lit.
A thermocouple set to the side of the candle could theoretically power a SMALL motor that could slowly turn the candle and hold the clamp slightly open so that the candle could be slowly fed upwards allowing for continual use. Add a potentiometer and this will allow for speed adjustment.
Add in a power button and you could have a candle that would continually feed as fast as it burned, but when "turned off" it would stop feeding/close the clamp and you would have 40 mins to do any remaining tasks before the candle extinguished itself.
Found one of these at a thrift store for something like $6.79 a couple yrs ago. People behind me in line were trying to buy it off of me, but I declined, because I liked the design. Researched it after getting home, & these were selling from $30-70, & they're based on courting candles of the 1700s-1800s. When the candle burned out, the suitor had to go home. Mine's mostly just a decorator piece right now, but will be used if power goes out. Replacing these is a tad pricey, as they are a bit of a specialty candle. Saw this on your 2023 annual review, first. Got my Range Mate Pro based on that yr's review for my locker @ work, so I can have crispy microwave food.
A bit expensive here in Australia, AUD65, if it was a straight conversion from USD30 it would be AUD47. But they look good, there is also a Christmas Tree version that would make a great centrepiece for Christmas dinner or lunch.
The AU$65 includes sales tax and shipping where the US$30 does not.
Thanks for reviewing this! I've seen them here and there, but wasn't sure how well they'd work.
Thanks again!
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That's a courting candle, used back in the day when teen kids were dating, if the father liked you he would let it burn longer if he didn't he would shorten the candle and when ever the candle goes out its time for the young man to go home
I agree, I think it would be cool if it rotated its self. It is a cool looking candle.
They are great for a garden summer house, but in reality I used candles and oil lamps for a couple months for lighting in a small cabin, the soot is a big issue.
I think there must be other factors that make the candle burn faster or slower. E.g. in warm temperatures, it should burn faster bc the wax is at s higher temperature from the get go and will melt and turn into gas faster.
I love the way this looks. I wonder how well it did and here you are with. Thanks for the demo. On a side note I love that shelving unit behind you. It’s very unique with all the different sections. 😊
That looks amazingly like a wax jack. The coil is much thicker than is traditional. The pole that is holding the clamp should have a second arm that holds a melting bowl. sealing wax would be placed in the bowel and the coil candle would melt the sealing wax. You would normally only expose a small amount of coil for each melting. The wax jack is designed with fire safety in mind. The weight of the machine helps prevent it from being knocked over, and the shape of the clamp ensures that the coil-candle extinguishes itself. I suspect this is a modified wax jack design that is being sold as a novelty.
I understand why it can't feed itself but it would be nice if it lasted longer for emergency use cases
I dont understand, its should be able to be adjusted in height while lit at least
you could if it's not too far burned down but wax will spill, and clamp gets hot when flame gets near bottom so that's why they recommend letting it cool.@@idiotburns
@@ranger178 yes that was easily inferred by the video, but if they had a little set of teeth on a gear you could control with a mechanism you could feed it with out touching a hot spot, $100 version
Not bad though for the 1600's. 😂
I have one and it is soft sticky beeswax not easy to slide or feed @@idiotburns
I bought one of these as a gift for my husband last year - an olive green vertical one - different manufacturer but, he quite liked it, as do I. We don't burn it often but, it looks pretty cool just on the table.
It's neat. I will always have a soft spot for oil lamps even though I really only burn them in winter. I use premium oil because cheap stuff will give me headaches. Even the ultrapure, smokeless stuff Medallion makes gives me headaches. I don't have any problem with unscented candle's. I've never burned beeswax candles. I do like that this coiled candle lasts for a long time and isn't messy to refill.
Got the vertical one. Biggest complaint is getting it in and out of the clip, which isn't really that big of a complaint honestly. Also The knob tightening the clamp to the center post on mine has basically 2 tightnesses, either too tight to be able to spin the clamp to line up to pull the next length of candle through, or so loose, that it feels like it'll come off. Though, admittedly, they may have intended you to loosen it, rotate, and retighten. But it seems like making it where it has enough resistance that it doesn't just move on it's own, but where you can gently turn it without having to have to loosen and retighten. That being said, these are minor observations. All in all, I love mine.
I dunno. I think you could probably do a continuous one. Same design, except for a spring turning mechanism for the spool, and some way to allow the candle guide/drip pan to move smoothly along with the candle end. It might even turn slowly enough that the tension from the candle itself could pull it along.
Biggest problem would probably be the system to allow it to come up through the drip pan, because I can see it getting gummed up with wax or wanting to shave the candle.
I love it when you release a humorous review.
That is one honey of a candle 🕯 lol! Great video as always James 👍
Very pleasant looking, I bought the indoor mini fire pit you reviewed, and I'm in love with it...I sit it inside a terra cotta plate with high edges for safety in case of a crack, but that's amazing too. This one is a must for people like me who suffer power outages on a regular basis.
Nicely done video. I was just hoping the candle had a automatic feed mechanism whereby it would feed like 1 inch of the candle every 20 minutes. We often get power outages in the winter and early Spring due to downed power lines and so me and my wife often sit at the table and play cards and board games by candle light, BUT she cheats and so I cant take my eyes away from the game while having to adjust the candle lol
we have had one for many years and it is a nice decoration I like the fact that it does not go too long and self extinguishes you can also get a green holiday candle for it.
It's a cool novelty, a conversation piece. Give it to someone for Christmas.
You get more for $30 than the "reinvented" spiral candle reviewed recently.
That's really neat. In my house, it would be covered with dust and pet hair. lol. Wonder if they have a pretty cover for these?
I'd think that dealing with the abundance of dust and pet hair might be a higher priority.
I was so ready for that to have some clockwork mechanism for advancing the candle
I have one that's vertical. It provides a nice ambiance at a party. Back in the day, it was called a 'suiter's' candle, a suiter being a 'man who courts or woos a woman, especially for a romantic relationship or marriage'. When the man was at the woman's home for a short, supervised visit, the mother or father would light the candle allowing for a defined visiting time. When it went out, it was to 'say goodbye'!
Unrelated to the actual content of the video, but thank you for listing the background music credit in the description. As a fan of chill minimal deep-tech, my ears perked up when I heard it
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Thank you for this review! I've had this candle saved in my shopping list for a year or more debating if it was worthwhile.
Cool review! I wish you would have done a 3-inch one just to see what would have happened. But I understand if you don't want to risk messing it up also.
its also a massive fire hazard that the cops will claim is proof of accelerant if you have a house fire... important to keep in mind
I love the vintage look. Very interesting.
I don't think it would be difficult to set up a couple of servo motors and an Arduino with a program to automate that candle. You would need to loosen the clamp enough for the candle to slide through.
Maybe you could create an app that will do all this for you? Maybe replace the beeswax with an LED?
Is that where the saying “Mind Your BEESWAX” 🐝 …. Comes from 😂😂😂😂
Sounds like an all-natural timer. Need to cook your food for 20 minutes? Just light an inch of the candle.
Might also be a cool mood/timer thing for things like Dungeons and Dragons where you want to put some kind of timed event/stress on the players and so you light the candle and say when it goes out that the time is up (you can even mess with them and measure more or less than you actually want to make it "appear that time sped up")
I can definitely see a use for it. The weekly sunset and early next day event that many around the world participate in will understand this.
Of course, the moment I saw this, I wanted to motorize it so it would automatically feed the spiral up through the clamp a tiny bit at a time, and thus let you keep it lit for the entire 80 hours if you wanted to do so.. ;)
A gear reduction system for the feed rate required and use the flame to heat a sterling engine to turn the feed mechanism and it will be a self running system.
If you have family / friends that read things like the Old Farmer's Almanac, this looks like it would make a good unique Christmas gift! :)
there are actually vertical versions of it in the shape of snowmen. My family has had one above the fireplace for decades at this point, it would be an amazing gift for the holidays!
It needs a crank or something so you can keep it going. Otherwise it`s pretty cool.
Pretty sure safety reasons is why it doesn't have a mechanical rotation feature , it would be a dangerous idea
I don`t see how a hand crank of some sort would be dangerous. It`s just to keep it going without relighting.@@josephbennett3482
Man this kinda stuff is tech we've forgotten we need to keep alive
It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch that some kind of smooth metal guidance rail/guard could be added that helps it form when unwinding the spool, maybe add a handle to help rotating. With that guidance system in theory u only would have to deal with rotating it and not fiddling with it alligning. Staying in period some kind of clock like mechanism could do the work of unwinding it slowly, this could have been possible in the period but ofcourse not something for the common man at all! Clocks where expensive to begin with, and having such mechanisms for a candle would be excessive, but technically feasible.
Well, this coming from the 1600 as you said and steampunk theme being based in the Victorian era and being all about making everything you can mechanical, brass, and steam powered which would require heat be it as something as mundane as keeping tea warm, this contraption would be far from out of place in such theme, even if it is 200 years off. Im sure they shared the mentality of "If it works perfectly, no need to fix it".
I have a couple of these I found in a discount store a decade ago. The wax is wound in the shape of a pumpkin, but otherwise works the same. I like them, for what they are.
Yeah I wish it would feed itself so you can light it and forget it
@@markylon So you mean like any other normal candle? That will never not be a risk, it would still be a nice feature if they implimented a little motor that advanced by an inch every 20 mins that you could simply switch on and off, perhaps on a timer switch.
Yeah 40 minutes doesn't feel like enough time, which is a compliment to the product in a way.
I imagine the limit is to prevent the candle from falling while burning and causing a fire. It also prevents large puddles of wax from forming on the device, possibly clogging it, or spilling over onto the table.
I'm sure a redesign could come with something that lasts longer.
i really wanted to see a review on this ty james what does happpen if you burn more then 2 inches i wonder
I just tested out a 4" segment and I don't think it would be stable much beyond that, but it did work. It lasted 84 minutes. I'll have footage of that in my next member's update tomorrow!
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The reason they tell you not to do more than a couple inches is because it could potentially droop and start a fire.
I have one - the horizontal model like yours.
While I haven't timed it carefully, it seems pretty much what it says on the box - Nice ambiance piece. I'm happy with mine.
I'm willing to bet that the maximum stick-out of two inches is because anything past that and the candle risks bending over and spilling hot wax all over.
Since it won't burn for 80 hours continuously, the coil just seems like an unnecessary complication since you'd get the same result with just a pile of separate 2 inch candles and a holder. It needs more space too because the middle of the coil is just empty space. But heyyyy, it's funkeeeeee!
As of right now on Amazon, the refill is only a little less than $2.00 cheaper than a new candle. 🤨
That's the way most things are now a day, almost cheaper to toss the whole thing and buy a new one.
I think if you carefully unclipped it and moved it up it could stay lit for as long as you want
I buy these all the time! I love them! Mine are upright tho.
This would be perfect for a temporary (short) power outage. Would be my bougie emergency candle. Lol
With candles you are supposed to cut the string very short, to avoid a huge flame, like this case, and faster wax usage.
This is my first time seeing your channel and I am impressed. You got my sub. God speed mate.
I mean I guess it is a good idea, I burn a lot of candles and they do not last very long. At least with this candle when it runs low you can just twist it up and get another few hours.
I'm a candle Fiend son. This look dope and I'm buying one.
I received one of these for Christmas a few year ago and love it. More of a design statement than a source of light.
A very interesting candle. And it works as promised. Very nice review😊
My wife has the vertical version of this candle and she loves it. I bought it for her a few years ago and she still uses it.
I bought the upright version for a friend 5 years ago and she still has it. She loves it so much she onky burns a tiny portion at a time lol
Ehhhh it needs some kind of temperature control, a lot of people have trouble keeping the wax from cracking or deforming. There are also auto-snuff clips that attach to normal upright candles.
"2 inches, I hope that's not too much! " 🤣
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Beeswax is natural, of course you won't get 100% the same results with every candle. That's just part of being nature. Criticism for that is more on the person than on the brand. It's like trying to buy the exact same carrot twice. Won't happen.
The thing that triggers me is its called "candle by the hour" but it's maximum runtime is 40 minutes. Cool candle though.
You realize you could pull out more while its burning, right? It would even be ok to pull out 4 inches of it.
@ksavage681 With my luck, if I did that, it would burn down my house and fire investigators would pinpoint that it was because I had pulled out 4 inches and not the recommended 2, causing my insurance claim to be denied.
My wife said, "that's definitely not too much." :D
This is great but what happens once it’s done? Can you buy a refill? That seems to be a lot of waste on the metal. At least with glass jars I can recycle them.
Cool stuff - special kudos to the marketer for not trying to make it seem like they have come up with the idea. Seems so common now, isn't it? Soemone finds some forgotten concept or old product nobody remembers, of course they're gonna market it as something original...
As for this thing, the only thing I'm struggling is trying to think of a reason I would need candle light for a set period of time. But that's just me. Also, it could still be a conversation piece for sure.
Guess it should be called the Candle by the 40 minutes seeing as thats the limit to the burn time on each occasion.
I think the candles are a high percentage Beeswax ( like Church Altar Candles) we have unbleached Beeswax candles for Funerals, they are very orange in colour
A coiled spring in the center, much like a kitchen timer, could allow you to wind it to set the burn time. I'm sure someone has done it.
I'd say calling it "Candle by the Hour" is a little deceitful if it can only burn 40 minutes at a time.
Thanks for another great video. I was wondering about these types of candles and if they were worth the hype.😊
It seems like the purpose of such a thing was to have a timed light source, because otherwise what would be the point vs. a long burning oil lamp?
Surely it should be called the "Candle by the 40 minutes".
The 49 minutes is probably to prevent someone from falling asleep after setting it for 8+ hours.
Looks about as cool as a candle could look I’d say
You might try freezing it overnight, thawing it for a couple of hours, then check the burn time.
I've heard that candles straight from the freezer can burn much longer than candles at room temperature. I assume this one would do do too--I wouldn't thaw it first.
A sterling engine that could slowly rotate the drum automatically would be amazing!
he's not acting; he's reacting; years of inane reality has brought us to this .
Actors usually go to school to learn thier trade; youtubers just stand in front of a mirror and mug
Seems like you might need two of these, lighting one as the other goes out giving continuous lighting and a sense of the passing time.
This will sit on a shelf like a decoration, never to be used.
For some reason I thought it would pull itself from the spool and stay lit for... Well all night
I have had the vertical version for a few years and I think it is the bees knees.
I have the vertical version of this, bought it years ago off of Jack Threads. Love it but I burn it rarely. I'd burn it more if I could find replacement wax coil .... I have my doubts about it being bee's wax; I don't get that smell my bee's wax candles give me.
ah learn that there is a box under videos. said box contains info. amazon and even walmart sells replacement coils in beeswax, citronella, red and green.
@@toomanyaccounts ah learn we are not all American. Said box can contain all the info it wants, it's not talking about my local Walmart. 🙄
I've had one of these in my wishlist for like, four years.
You could possibly try to advance the candle before it goes out if you need more time, that way you wouldn't have to wait to relite it.
I was thinking the same thing. If you manually advanced it every 20 mins, it would be effectively continuous. However there is a chance of burning yourself, which is probably why the instructions don't suggest that.
@@travis1240the melted beeswax is probably only like 65 or 70 c so it might hurt but it's not going to cause you any serious harm
The clamp might get to hot to squeeze and hold while you are threading the candle through.
@@markylon Of course, Heat Rises, silly me.🤣
Would have liked to see you buck the instructions and pull a three inch length for an hour burn. Curious as to if that would have worked or would have produced a problem.
You should compare the vertical and standing options. I imagine the vertical one is easier to work with.
RachLoves reviewed the vertical one a few weeks ago.