1949 Primus 991 after fettling. I’m happy with this! By the way, the thing I’m using as a heat shield is an improvised spirit dish I found on a Tilley lantern. Cheers Tony
@Henry Plews Photo from an iPhone on auto, at night, under the white light of three Coleman lamps. Photo unedited. I was surprised by the blue. Cheers Tony
I thought my eyes had been seeing different. I've never seen that shade of blue(as appeared on my hp screen) on such flames, no matter how "perfect" the combustion is. Its beautiful. Does the actual flame colour appear like that in the pictures?
@MYN That is the flame in the photos without any digital alteration. I think it is due to the automatic adjustment of the iPhone reacting under the white light of the Coleman lamps. After I finish planting my garlic crop today, I’ll see what it looks like in the shed with daylight. Tony
@MYN These photos taken at the same location, but this time during daylight and no light of Coleman lamps. Cheers Tony
@Tony Press These latter pictures show what I'd normally see on cleanly operating burners. My handphone camera often does strange renditions under different lighting conditions .
Testing a Col-Max 333 Happy to put a mantle on this one! It’s working very well, and it’s very bright! Tony
Testing a the burner of a rather enigmatic Coleman 286A-703. The lamp had been fired previously, but judging by the soot, not very efficiently. A mantle was tied on and unburned so that’s what I tested. It works! Tony
Testing an Australian-made 12/1960 Coleman 249. This (I’m almost certain) is the last production run of Aussie Colemans. The light up is straight out of the mailbox. I’ll now fettle the lantern into the condition it should be in for an historic piece of kit. This lantern should be fine! Tony
Testing a Canadian Coleman 236 (10/1950). This one is ok! The screen on the burner cap needs a gentle brush. Tony
Testing the burner on a 1937 Canadian 118A. The lamp is burning well. It needed some thoughtful fettling, and I thought it would misbehave on first light up, but it got going straight away. It’s got an itinerant gas leak from the tip cleaner stem. I’ll work on that tomorrow and get this uncommon lamp fully up and running. Cheers Tony
@Jacob van Pareen To fix the small gas leak at the tip cleaner shaft, I cheated a bit. I cleaned the area where the small brass bush that sits on the wire control fits into the brass housing, then I used graphite string to wrap around the wire control and act as packing when tightening up the hex packing nut. No more leak. Tony
@Jacob van Pareen In this photo you can see the brass bush protruding just in front of the threads. The graphite string was wrapped around the wire shaft in front of the packing nut and then the packing nut screwed back firmly not tight. As said above, no more leak. On another note, I replaced the badly misshapen generator that came with the lamp, with a very old NOS 242B generator (wire spring and asbestos internals), but I used the “V” stamped tip from the original generator. Testing those small mantles with the new generator resulted in the small mantles being blown to pieces! When I finish this lamp I’ll fit it with Peerless 2C-HG mantles. Cheers Tony
