Austramax 3/300 NOS (V.3)

Just picked this up whilst on a family camping trip.

Unfired NOS Austramax 3/300 (V.3 according to the reference gallery).

Interestingly the globe it came with (still wrapped in original paper) is a Coleman globe.

This one is going “straight to the pool room”.

 

Nice find , do you have any idea of when it was made.
Ian

 

@Mr cod

Quickly looking at the info here:
Dating Austramax Publications

It has a leather pump washer, and also an aluminium top nut, so I’m guessing mid 70’s.

I’ll have a closer look when I get home for more clues.

 

Excellent!

This would be a good lantern for the Reference Gallery, especially all the bits, the box, and the Coleman glass.

Cheers

Tony

 

What a nice find. Should look good in the pool room.

 

Top find there @Buckaroo

 

A really lucky find.

 

Nice find, congratulations

I would say 1960's
As shown on the box introduced 1962 and we know the round wheel was changed by 1972.

Any paperwork with the lantern?

@Mr cod

 

I’ll take more pics when I’m back home for the reference gallery, but for now here’s the paperwork it came with:

 

Gawd, what a find, what a treasure. Good to see it will be well cared for.

 

going by the phone numbers for Austramax at Melville road, (where they are still located) being alpha numeric, two letters and four numbers indicates 1950's or early '60's.

nice find btw

 

We can be a little bit more precise: it’s at least 1962 or later, but we don’t know how long that box label was used:




This post also shows that Austramax used the typeset for that brochure (complete with spelling mistake) for quite some time…




Cheers

Tony

 

What evidence do you have for this? There is a lot of the later dating that is missing proof (or at least I am).

 

G'day Nils, This catalogue dated 1st July 1972 shows the newer elongated knob on the lantern.
https://classicpressurelamps.com/threads/austramax-catalogue-1972.13882/ So the change could be earlier but can't be any later than July 1972.

Just noticed that the lower section of the catalogue (parts list) still shows the older ships wheel design. Maybee the change was recent?

@Nils Stephenson

 

@ROBBO55
Thanks for that Martin. Looks like I'll have to look into this a bit more. Dating the changes in the 60s and 70s is not easy.

 

Thanks for the date info, now added to the reference gallery:

Austramax 3/300

 

Hi Buckaroo,

Thank you for sharing this great fine. Pristine out of the box lamp. Also thanks for sharing photos of the User Manual.

Wondering if we could do a project together to convert this booklet to a PDF. Then users can use as reference to maintain/use their lamps as per manufacturer’s guide.

Very happy to see the packaging and all. Classic 60/70s design.

 

@M. Sulhan Juman

Austramax manuals are available to subscribers in the Reference Library.

Tony

 

Wow, that's a real ripper mate, congratulations.

 

Thank you Tony. That’s a great info. Will check that out.

I finally got around DIY-ing the rubber washer for the fill cap.

• Use the rubber washer from a water tap plumbing kit.
• Drilled the centre to 8mm and trace the size of the fill spout
• and used a disc sander to reduce the size.
• Then fit insert with a socket to push the washer into the cap.

Just finished testing it out and looks like it’s good to go now.

 

@M. Sulhan Juman

Be careful using tap washers. You should put some of the leftover washer rubber in kerosene for a few weeks and watch if it swells and/or disintegrates.

Viton rubber is the best.


Tony

 

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the cautionary note. Will monitor and check. Yeah some of these tap rubbers are not good for fuels.