Just 30 mins ago got this one. I didn't check the technical parts jet, but seems that it will be OK after the maintenance. All the best to members It's my first post here )
@mr.shickelgruber Congratulations on a rare Lantern. As you can read in this post - I would be careful only to light it for a short time in order not to destroy the tinning. (or just keep it as a rare Lantern). But that is entirely up to you of cause And a warm welcome here - ask and you’ll find lots of help. For a small annual fee as subscriber you’ll have access to a vast amount of catalogues, parts lists and such in the members section. Cheers Harder
Dear Harder, dear Tony, Thanks for your warm words! Definitely I will subscribe the resource. There is a handful of lanterns from different producers in my collection, including some rare representatives. So, I will contribute to the forum with some new photos. Harder, many thanks for the tip about 1019! Best regards DZ
Finally I won my laziness and put this piece of text and some photos on this topic. It was one of my worst experience with repairing of the lantern. After I received the lantern I visually checked it – everything was in typical for this age and extensively used item. It seems that probably the lantern was not used for several decades. It was not possible to open the tank lid manually. So it was opened using some instruments. In the tank there still was some amount of yellow oily remains. Outside the lantern there was a layer like from drying oil or something similar. I wet the leather pump washer with silicone oil – still works. I pumped the tank in order to check whether the lantern keep the pressure – open/close valve positions still give “”shshshh or silent”. However just in couple of seconds the pump rod was squeezed out from the pump tube – NRV should be repaired. OK, no problem, I have self made tool of good quality, so it should help. I tried to remove the NRV - unsuccessful. So in order to stir up and additionally to remove the dirty layer from the tank I immersed it in water with some Liquinox and put in ultrasonic bath for several hours at 65C. Unfortunately even after theses manipulations, any attempts to unscrew the NRV were not successful and the "head" of NRV was damaged inside the pump tube. So, the only option was to remove the pump tube from the tank by solder out with the gas lamp. After removal of the pump tube I tried to unscrew the NRV from both sides - nothing!!! The metal parts became as a one whole brass massive. I immersed the tube in transmission fluid/acetone mixture and put it in ultrasonic bath at 55C for 3 days (compensation of evaporation of acetone by addition of some aliquots after each 4-10 hours). Thereafter I tried to unscrew the NRV remains with easy-out tool - no way!!! As a result the pump tube was damaged. Thanks to Mike 'the stove' (base-camp.co.uk) that similar to 1019 pump tube was in his stock and I got the tube with new NRV in one week. New tube was soldered in the tank and checked for tightness. Also there was a leak through the original gasket of the filling cap (original was leather). I replaced it with viton. Hope this lantern will give some shine to our grey world
Additional info on this lantern. According to the stamping on the tank - its from 1936. The label is AA15
Well done with the restoration. You certainly had some challenges. It's good to see another 1019 restored as a lot of them must have got too rusty and been thrown out.
