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370 posts
Location: Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia
Howdy all,
i'm thinking of making my own staff with two wicks on each end (like the poi). i started thinking about this, and i know it would look cool but i don't know how i would get the fuel on the inside wick without pouring it on (but that wastes a bit). The only thing i could think of is using citronella/shellite mix, that burns quite well without having to dunk.
any thoughts?
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
pour it on over a big dipping bucket, meaning all the run off goes back into a fuel ducket
or get a long dipping tube, and use taht so taht both wicks are covered?
Step (el-nombrie)
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370 posts
Location: Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia
ahh yes.... a very good idea (big dipper)
cheers for that ill try that. it might not be made for a while ut if it works well i'll put up some piccies. it should look awsome.
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
easiest way
long piece of guttering tube
get a cap for the end from the guttering section, and seal it on with glue, or screw it on
Step (el-nombrie)
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610 posts
Location: Australia
yay for double wicked stix! I am half way through making a set of dual staves like that, The first set of the wicks are 6 inch ones and the second are 3 inches. All in all, lots of fire (and on short 90cm stix... will be specky!)
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b...bal...lence?....
370 posts
Location: Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia
funky monkey, can i see some piccies when they're done?
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
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there you go a couple fo images of double wick staffs
Step (el-nombrie)
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Flashy! i want some, are they up for purchase anywhere? it looks so prettyful!
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Location: Washington D.C.
I'm going to have to make a set of those.....
that is awsome
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pour over a dipping bucket
alternatively, get a fuel container with a thin nozzle and push valve.
i don't have a link atm, but i'm sure that googling trezeta will come up with sthg.
ture na sig
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Location: Washington D.C.
I just finished converting my staff to a two wick staff. It's great, but a carries a little more weight then I thought it would. Good for speed.
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage?
--Pink Floyd
503 posts
Location: bristol
there's another problem with double wicked staves: they can be almost impossible to extinguish. if you extinguish one wick, the other relights it, and vice versa. so expect to have to spin them out
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ture na sig
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53 posts
Location: Washington D.C.
hmmm....I'll keep that in mind....thanks
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage?
--Pink Floyd
still can't believe it's not butter
6,978 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
to blow out the wicks, it's common sense to blow out the lower wicking first so that it doesn't re-ignite the upper wicking!!
this is what mines looks like:
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Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
or just use a rag and starve both wicks of air
Step (el-nombrie)
503 posts
Location: bristol
i confess i rarely manage to extinguish both wicks by blowing even when I start from the lower wick; maybe my wicks are hotter/bigger when i try to do this. i think it's because the cloud of paraffin vapour coming off the lower extinguished wick is sizeable and hot; when the top of this vapour ignites, the bottom does as well.
rags are sensible, but less stylish and often unavailable. i know, i know - sometimes i'm badly prepared . . .
ture na sig
328 posts
Location: uk
Long steel tube sealed at one end, internal diameter just larger than the wick surface, deep enought to smother upto four heads.
mark
old hand
896 posts
Location: Manchester England
Bender did you buy a concentrate staff and make it Duel wick or can you Oz folks get them down there?
Quiet if you cant find a rag the top you wear will do(Or it does for me) just grabb the end quickly and starve it, its good as you look both brave and stupid at the same time!
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still can't believe it's not butter
6,978 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
i stalked the makers (in Melb) and had it re wicked for me, with extra. They're not cheap staves, but the additional wicking didn't cost much extra, it's just the hassle of hassling em.
it's the only single staff i've got! I'm a doubles boy through and thru!
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Location: Australia
im thinking of getting a double wicked staff in a lil while, my theory is the more fire the better
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I have a six wick staff. Its
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I have a six wick staff. Its
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