Borosilicate Fresnel lense for My Tilley AL21

Hi fellas, the other week I posted about my AL21 that the glass shattered. Thank to a lead from @Anthony , about the borosilicate lenses on eBay. Nothing to lose, so I followed up on them and aquired 1-175mm it cost a little bit I’m impressed and I think it is worth it. My AL21 is back in action I’m very happy with it, thank you Anthony for sharing, as an alternative I recommend them

 

That does look cool !

 

Interesting alternative.

 

Seems to work extremely well.

 

Looks very good Darryl.

 

Looks like an excellent alternative to the original.

 

Looks good, does it also focus the light more?

 

That certainly does the job.

 

That’ll do it! ........ it certainly works well.
Enjoy
Pete

 

That looks good.... an interesting, I might have to try that as well

 

@Darryl Durdin
Is it real proper fresnel optic?
Or just a circular rilled glass ??

 

@bp4willi , it is a Fresnel optic. I light output is quite strong and directed. The reflector is poor inside so most of the directional lighting comes from the lense.
I have an old rail way kerosene wick lamp it has a similar lense. Not that it shows a lot of bright red light but when you look at it in-line from a distance you can see it very clearly.