Hi I’m new to site .my first attempt at repairing a lamp bialaddin 300x have it working but can't find a replacement glass any help would be appreciated
@Trev Very expensive, but here on Ebay 2 x Glass Globe Cylinder Vapalux E41 Bialaddin 300X 305 FREE Worldwide Shipping | eBay Tom
Welcome Trevor - as Johnny19 says the base camp ones are available, in fact the replacement ones that they stock for the 300 are thicker and stronger. However lanterns with no glass are often cheap because there is no glass..
Not really, the price is for 2 glasses, each one works out at only four pence more than the base-camp ones. Immaterial of course because even though the seller purports to be based in Norwich, he "Does not ship to United Kingdom"
@Henry Plews - you started me off looking as Norwich prickled my memory. The seller is no other person than Carl Fuller of Fuller Enterprises, late of Hurricane Lamps.
Jmoncrieff.co.uk has the glass listed at 14 pounds plus postage. I also checked tilleylampsandstoves but he is out of stock at the moment, good luck in getting one. Regards Ian
To save you looking through the whole Moncrieff site - interesting though it is:- BiAladdin Vapalux | Oil Lamp Accessories | John Moncrieff Lighting (jmoncrieff.co.uk) I found this bit rather amusing given the ubiquity of time-travelling lamps and lanterns frequently seen in film and on TV What We Do (jmoncrieff.co.uk)
For what its worth those Base Camp glasses are very good quality, and reasonably priced compared to other parts on there which are very expensive. I'm intriged by the 315/320 glasses with the steel base as well!
I thought they were on some 320s only. The 315 should have the later 'stepped' glass globe (T805?) which rests on a 'shelf' formed in each of the globe cage uprights - could be wrong. I imagine it was quicker and easier (maybe cheaper, too) to produce straight globes from a glass cylinder and press the bases from thin metal sheet.
@David Shouksmith If breaking glass is a habit its cheaper to replace after the initial purchase of the steel base. As for the 315 I have an old 320 glass in it that fits OK, well...it'll be staying in there because I'm not buying one if I can avoid it.
I believe that the short cylindrical glasses with the plate are sometimes referred to as NATO glasses. They were introduced for the last version of the 320 with the steel guard ring round the frame. The older pattern used on the 315 is indeed the T805.
