Hey crinklebutts, maybe this is a little TOO "retro" for even this group, but does anyone know what to do with a bad bottle of lamp oil? I just bought a new bottle of Crown Ultra-Pure Lamp Oil from Walmart, and it seems to vaporize too slowly. I filled a lantern with it, let it sit for a few minutes so the wick could soak it up, and then lit the lantern, and the lantern soon began burning its wick.
I've had this lantern for years and it has never burnt its wick before, except when run dry. And I've had other oil lamps do this same thing, and stop doing it when dumped out and refilled with different oil.
Is there something I can mix with the oil to make it burn better? For anyone not familiar with how oil lamps work, keep in mind that most are not pressure-sealed, so no fuel that gives off explosive vapors can be used (thus, no gasoline or anything like that—if it readily burns without a wick, it's too volatile).