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In the quest for maximum comfy, and oil lantern. I had a lantern back home I used a lot and love it, and now that I moved overseas it was super hard to find a replacement but I finally ordered one. Can't wait to take it on my first cambin trip.
If anyone is interested, I'll save you a lot of time as I've done all the research - be super careful that you burn the right oil. K1/purified/clear kerosene works great and puts off a lot of light, but the flash point is only around 100ºF and when the lantern gets hot the potential for an explosion is very real. Also kerosene is flammable rather than "combustible" and if you drop it or blow on it it could go kaboom. Conversely, Paraffin oil, which usually burns beautifully clean, has a flash point of well over 400ºF and will clog your wick and beging to burn darker and dirtier over time. As the solvents vaporize the oil will get thicker and even begin to crystallize. You need something in between with a flashpoint somewhere around 150ºF-200ºF, which is usually a light parrafin oil cut with purified kerosene.
ProTip: buy your lamp oil from a church supply store, they have the highest quality odourless/smokeless oils (for indoor use if you need that) with optimum flash point stability.
ProTipTwo: for /out/ you can burn citronella oil in it to ward off skeetos, but use a different wick as citronella is usually heavy paraffin oil and the wick won't be good for burning cleaner oils.
