What makes the wick for the candle?

Candles - If earlier it was an analogue of light, today they are most often used for the interior decor or the creation of a romantic atmosphere. It is clear that they are to this day are an indispensable attribute in the absence of light, so that the practicality candles do not occupy. Let's talk today about how to make a wick for candles with your own hands and find out that it will be needed for this, and what knowledge will become relevant in this lesson.

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History - Candle Fitle

To be able to do something with your own hands is wonderful, because these skills can come in handy in life, and, not once. Many use their skills to create candles and earn well on it, so in any case, this skill will be useful to you 100%.

As for the necessary tools and materials, there is some diversity here, but there are details that become simply indispensable as a constant in mathematics, and this detail in the candlelight is your own thread.

In fact, the phytile appeared long before the wax candles appeared. And this is a proven fact. It turns out that the wick did not come up as a detail of the candle, and it was a separate adaptation, and the difference in their creation was in the 14th centuries, at a minimum. Previously, instead of a thread for the phytyl, the woods were applied (sins), after some time, people came to use as a wick, rag.

Very many centuries, the wick dipped in a special fuel mixture, which smelled very badly, and toxic substances that were distinguished from such mixtures, there was a lot, so nothing good, except for the light, did not carry such lighting devices.

In order to understand how the wick can be made for a candle, it is necessary to understand the essence of the processes that occur in it during the burning. It should be understood that the wick cannot be made from anything. In this case, there is no diversity of materials, there is an exhaust scheme for the creation, in which we are now and we will understand.

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Quality of Fitil

First of all, that the candle is turned out to be a good, it is necessary that the wick is really high-quality, so it is necessary to understand that there should be interconnected fibers in its composition. Fitil materials could be used before:

• Slices of veto
• Sliding wood
• Wicker type threads
• Even poplar fluff

To date, a relevant option for creating a wick is a thread or of cotton or fiberglass, other options will not be practical. In the market of wax products today you can buy very interesting options - you get a candle in the form of a dog, and then, when the candle burns, a cool skeleton remains from the figurine.

Before making a wick, it is necessary to determine with its parameters that will directly depend on the size, height and diameter of the sash itself, where this wick will be inserted. It is necessary to refer to the process of choosing the parameters of the phytile quite carefully. Because too thin wick in a thick candle can simply not light up, and if it is the opposite, it will be too thick, the candle will eventually smoke.

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Creation of phytyl

It is clear that on automated production, everything has long been calculated and counted, but when you make a wick with your own hands, the process of selecting parameters becomes more difficult, samples and errors in this case become inevitable.

It should also be understood that if the wick is too long, then the candle will be soot when combustion will be in any way. Most often, the wick is done by weaving the threads (the fibers in this case should be thin).

In the event that the candle in which you will insert your wick will be made of wax, it will be necessary to make it quite thick enough, and weaving in this case should be not too dense.

If the candles are made from paraffin or fat, then the wick for such candles should be done quite thin, and the twist must be tight.

Phytel impregnation is also important. Without impregnation, your candle burn, as it should be, will not, but do not be afraid, this process is quite simple, so there will be no problems with it. Do not forget that after the wick will be saturated. Before direct application, it will be necessary to dry, as it should be.

It is necessary to understand that the impregnation for the wick is obligatory, because such a candle will not smoke and burn without problems. So, the methods of impregnation:

• We take 450 ml of water, add a 6 g of ammonium chloride, 12 g of boras, 6 calcium chloride, 4 g of sodium nitrate. This impregnation is an excellent option for any wick.
• The second option of impregnation - we take 560 ml where we add 35 g of the lime of hawed and 9 g of sodium nitrate.

I lower the wick to one of the proposed solutions, after which it will be necessary to carefully dry it. It is worth noting immediately that the wick will not dry very quickly, so that this process will have to spend 5 or even 6 days.

Prepared solutions must be mixed very well so that the mass is ultimately a homogeneous mass, where the wick harvesting is lowered. Fitil can be made of several threads, which are well connected to each other.

When the wick is trying to "insert it" to the candle, which can also be made with your own hands. All information on this reason can be found on the Internet, so it will be from what to choose.