Home Made Blow Lamp?

I picked this up today (along with a small stove) for a very very good price. So what is it? A copper tank; a Tilley pump; a Primus pressure release screw? I bought it for the pump...

 

Well it looks definitely like an older Tilley Lamp pump from the 1950-60's. And it looks more like a home-cobbled stove set-up rather than a blow-lamp configuration. That's all I can contribute Tony - Steve.

 

Here is the other image I was trying to post (plus one more). I was having some difficulties with Internet connection speeds yesterday at the end of the piece of fencing wire I'm connected to at home.

 

Hey Tony .
Looks like it was made for heating up a stationary
engine .Living in Tassie didn't think they had phones over there yet .Might go to Tassie soon see what lanterns to find myself .
Bob .

 

It does look a curious device. But maybe as the lampDoc says, something made to heat or pre-heat something else. A scale model steam plant for example. There must have been an independent spirit cup somewhere.

 

OK, now that we see all the pics it is clearly a blow-lamp. Home-made and probably used as a pre-heater for a large stationary engine, tractor etc. Interesting find! Steve

 

Lamp Doctor, I'm not sure you'll get a visa to enter Tassie if you're going to sneak off with a load of pressure lamps!

If anyone wants this beast I'll pass it on... Otherwise I was going to use the Tilley pump as a spare because the blow lamp would take a replacement.

 

Hello Tony, perhaps you could cobble together a lamp of some kind using that tank, Jeff.

 

Wonder how they preheated that unit? Maybe with a gas torch?

 

I have seen a few of these cobbled together blowlamps, which were used to power model steam boats, but I am not sure with this one, it could be made for that purpose, but all the ones I have seen they were designed so the tank would lay horizontal, and the burner fixed so it was pointing away from the end of the tank.
On this design it looks like it was to be used with the tank in the vertical position, so it looks like it was made to preheat a hot bulb engine as mentioned

 

Frankly I can't see anything on this apparatus that indicate that it was used for a hot bulb engine.
I think it just has been cobbled up to fulfil a certain need someone might have had that we just simply can't guess now.
Or perhaps someone just thought it was a fun thing to do with some pieces laying around. I know I could have done something like that just for the fun of it.

But for a hot bulb engine?
I really doubt it...
Unless not someone was really desperate.