Testing a Bizarre Modern Version of a 17th Century Candle!
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- Today I'm testing out Candle By The Hour, which is a modern take on "courting candles" of the 17th-18th centuries.
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0:00 Intro, Unboxing, & Overview
2:08 Setting Up & First Use
4:13 Results & Re-Lighting
5:32 Final Thoughts
Music by Epidemic Sound:
"Chirrups" by Twelwe
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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?
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.
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
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.
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."
"lets make a candle thats called candle by the hour, but it only runs for 45 minutes at a time" XD
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
That is one honey of a candle 🕯 lol! Great video as always James 👍
I love it when you release a humorous review.
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 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.
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. 😊
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.
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.
This is my first time seeing your channel and I am impressed. You got my sub. God speed mate.
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
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.
Thanks for another great video. I was wondering about these types of candles and if they were worth the hype.😊
A very interesting candle. And it works as promised. Very nice review😊
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.
I love the vintage look. Very interesting.
I agree, I think it would be cool if it rotated its self. It is a cool looking candle.
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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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
Thank you so very much. I love your reviews.
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.
Really appreciate the time lapse, very cool.
This is really cool. Great review.
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.
I was so ready for that to have some clockwork mechanism for advancing the candle
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 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.
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.
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 always wanted one of those candles it looks so cool I always wanted one but was never sure about it so glad you made a video on this candle.
Is that where the saying “Mind Your BEESWAX” 🐝 …. Comes from 😂😂😂😂
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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?
Pretty cool watching it burn down! Both in real time and elapsed time.
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 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.
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.
Man this kinda stuff is tech we've forgotten we need to keep alive
Looks about as cool as a candle could look I’d say
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
Awesome Video 😊
"2 inches, I hope that's not too much! " 🤣
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Oh yeah! I saw this on amazon while I was buying candle wax sand... Was wondering about it actually!
I’m definitely getting one !
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'!
This would be perfect for a temporary (short) power outage. Would be my bougie emergency candle. Lol
this is very cool old antique looking beautiful
Thanks for the review I think i'll get the stand up model
I've had one of these in my wishlist for like, four years.
I buy these all the time! I love them! Mine are upright tho.
This reminds me of those old oil lamps that my grandparents had. With a wick and an oil reserve. Those memories take me back... now I'm depressed 😆. I hate reminiscing 😀.
very cool design
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
I'm a candle Fiend son. This look dope and I'm buying one.
That was cool!! I liked that ❣️🕯️
that's really cool. it is basically an old fashioned light set on a timer.
im looking forward to the 1 year update. On a legit note, im getting someone this for Christmas
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.
Surely it should be called the "Candle by the 40 minutes".
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.
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.
It's a cool concept for a candle I've seen the concept before never tried it though I prefer my candle to last until I put it out
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.
@@shanetuma3845 that's exactly what I told my wife
Nice relaxing video
My wife said, "that's definitely not too much." :D
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.
Strange... Interesting... Thanks again for sharing this nice video
Is that a Mandelbrot Factal I see in the background on the wall?
Great video, thanks.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This will sit on a shelf like a decoration, never to be used.
Guess it should be called the Candle by the 40 minutes seeing as thats the limit to the burn time on each occasion.
Love the look and bees wax idea but why is the horizontal one more expensive lol they see your video? lol.
Fascinating🕯
I received one of these for Christmas a few year ago and love it. More of a design statement than a source of light.
I'd totally buy this.
The 49 minutes is probably to prevent someone from falling asleep after setting it for 8+ hours.
For some reason I thought it would pull itself from the spool and stay lit for... Well all night
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.
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".
If you use a 3-inch section of candle does it burn for an hour or just droop down and burn out quickly? I would have thought that you would test to see if it can actually be a candle "by the hour."