Need wicks and sight glass for antique Union camp stove ,

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  1. joelg

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    Need wicks and sight glass for antique union camp stove .
    Allso known as Sad Iron Sove Heater
     
  2. yonadav

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    A photo of the stove can help us understand what you need.
     
  3. RonPH

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    The "glass" is not glass actually and sometimes come up on ebay and is also the same material used for very old coleman lanterns. Seller may be able to cut it to size.

    Ron
     
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    Hello Joelg. Mica is probably what the window was made out of. There are companys on the internet who sell sheets of it. This is from wikipedia.

    Sheet mica
    Mica insulator items
    Silver mica capacitors
    Muscovite windowsSheet mica is used in electrical components, electronics, isinglass, and atomic force microscopy. Other uses include diaphragms for oxygen-breathing equipment, marker dials for navigation compasses, optical filters, pyrometers, thermal regulators, stove and kerosene heater windows, and micathermic heater elements. Mica is birefringent and is therefore is commonly used to make quarter and half wave plates. Specialized applications for sheet mica are found in aerospace components in air-, ground-, and sea-launched missile systems, laser devices, medical electronics and radar systems. Mica is mechanically stable in micrometer-thin sheets which are relatively transparent to radiation (such as alpha particles) while being impervious to most gases. It is therefore used as a window on radiation detectors such as Geiger-Müller tubes.
     
  5. bbstacker

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    You might be able to make the wicks out of a cotton string mop.
     
  6. doi4100

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