Talk:Carbide lamp

message: Hi;
I added a section on recommended readings, I can't help it, I'm a librarian.  I hope you will leave the link to Eurekamagazine.net on the Carbide Lamp page, it is the only currently published magazine on the history of mine lighting and mining tools, and access is free!  Please note that this is not intended as a promotional or commercial post, I have no direct connection to Eureka!, but right now it is the only place with information on Thorpe's book. JAVanfleet 19:50, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

message: Carbide lamp flame is sooty only with a bad/damaged beak, lack of water, bad carbide etc. A good, fully functional, lamp will produce no soot as bad elements will be burnt through the flame.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.184.159.145 (talk) 13:55, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  IIRC from my caving days, a carbide lamp will also produce soot if you hold it close to a cold and/or damp surface, like a cave wall.  We used this fact to mark tunnels when mapping them. Mcswell (talk) 01:46, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Sooty flame ?

message: I deleted this section. Reason is, the chemistry is adequately discussed under acetylene and calcium carbide, using modern versus archaic terminology. Also, this is not the focus of the article; the focus is the lamp. Lastly, the earlier part seems to contradict the ==History== section. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 01:50, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
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message: Is anyone knowledgeable about the risks with Carbide lamps?  Obviously, fire/overheating is one risk.  Are there others?  For example, is the smoke from an acetylene flame toxic? 140.180.190.89 (talk) 03:28, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure how it would overheat, unless it somehow broke inside and dumped all the water from the upper chamber into the lower one at once.  But they're pretty sturdy, so that's unlikely.  I guess you could stick your finger in the flame, like you could with a candle.  And the smoke is just carbon, while the product aside from smoke is water vapor and carbon dioxide.  So apart from the fact that the open flame could cause an explosion if a mine had a methane leak, they were pretty harmless. Mcswell (talk) 01:50, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Risks? 

message: Carbide lighting is a near orphan stub that could be usefully merged here to give it context. --Wtshymanski (talk) 13:33, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest merge

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