So as per the picture that accompanies this part of the forum - am I to assume the Tilley Paraffin Preheater is a 'one and only' design, or did other lamp manufactures have - or try - anything similar?? I do find the darn thing rather fascinating, so I'd be curious to try similar designs elsewhere, if such exist...
I've seen at least 3 or 4 variants of the Tilley/"Replacement for Tilley", with respect to push-on, 2 types of "Butterfly", aluminium tabs, tin plated steel tabs, brass replacement etc etc. So even within Tilley it's not cut and dried, ha ha! Its a fascinating rabbit hole I have to say I do prefer the retro-fit of a cup-with-a-wick that sits in place, cant get lost and is pretty foolproof. I've seen too many semi-dissolved/weak pre-heaters festering in mustard jars of water-absorbed-meths for my liking Alec
@Muzzleflash Do you mean devices using paraffin to preheat such as that on a Tilley BR49 and not the meths lighting torch Alec’s referring to? A Hasag 351 springs to mind and in the paraffin stove realm, a Monitor Regal. John
@Muzzleflash There are fork type preheaters which used asbestos rope and were either held in place or made so they could be hooked and left there ? have a trawl through the French lamps in the gallery and there are examples about .. perhaps some are homemade but originally they would have been available as accessories surely? @presscall that’s a nice stove John
@presscall Yap, anything as per similar to the Tilley 777a control cock and it's associated parts thereof. Nothing push on or meths related. I've got several BR49's and they fascinate me tbh. @podbros Shall do, many thanks @Rangie Many thanks. I should've elaborated, not the meths torches.
whoops.. think i missed the vital word ‘paraffin’ there >_< some of the early tillies including table lamps had built in paraffin preheats but they weren’t very successful? the BR one can be got to work ok with a blue flame but patience and a draft free environment wasn’t always the case working on the permanent way!
I guess that Willis & Bates never tried similar, or at least didn't get anything similar to market, is quite telling perhaps!? I was purely curious if any other lamp manufacturer had done something similar to the BR49 preheater. Whenever I light my 49's I do it in our little utility room, near the back door. They do smell on start up and the Wife grumbles...
Kind of similar but different is the petromax 824s .. uses paraffin for preheat with a built in pump in the tank? heres one that James restored sorry im not able to do the clever link thing they did the same thing with the pump on other models such as the 823/6 maybe other manufacturers too??
@podbros Excellent, thank you. Just the kind of thing I was interested in. Might look out for one, though they're probably viciously expensive no doubt...
