Greetings!
The Uco Candleier’s a fun & versatile little candle lantern capable of lighting, heating, and even cooking. The drawback is that the candles are expensive. Too expensive to make them a good choice as-is, but many people convert them to more economical liquid candles, which is exactly what I did, my conversion differs from most of the others I’ve seen…
Most of the conversions I’ve seen use 3-4 airline size alcohol bottle for liquid candles. I opted for a single jar 5 wick liquid candle. I filled the jar with sand, to hold my wicks in place, put my wicks in, then filled it with vegetable oil. It will burn for several days on a single filling, and when traveling or for storage, I simply put the jar lid on it. It would work with or without the candelier, but I like the candelier anyway.
I made an extra stable base for mine out of a cookie tin filled with sand. That makes it very stable, and I can even place one of the heat powered woodstove fans on top of it.
Cheers!