Golden Globe 500cp lantern eBay buy it now.

Hi folks

I'm sure most of you have probably already seen this however, At under £45.00 shipped for those who haven't: 500W Golden Globe Pressure Kerosene Oil Lantern Lamp Lighting Outdoor Camping UK 8227730980033 | eBay

Brand new 500cp Golden Globe Chinese Petromax clone has got to be worth it even for spare parts.

Regards Jeremy

 

About the same price here in the states:

500W-Retro-Golden-Globe-Pressure-Kerosene-Oil-Lantern-Lamp-Lighting-Outdoor-Camp $55.26 + $1.50 Shipping

 

Sold out! but the link on the page from another seller is still pretty cheap (£49.00 free post)
Pressure Oil Lantern Garden Outdoor Camping Kerosene Paraffin Hurricane Lamp 8227730962251 | eBay
Martin

 

Looks ok.. I suppose its worth a punt .. is it another Mannesman ?..I not ... I have two similar
Alb

 

Aliexpress has this one & it looks like you also get the shade included too. Works out at £43.43 delivered if you also use the seller coupon too. For some strange reason it gave me double the coupon discount. I'll see what it's like when it turns up.

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My experience with my Chinese made lantern was so bad I wouldn't take one of these for free. My old example suffered from its parts , the parts were just badly made. I have had some trouble with a few Chinese made parts as well bought from another source, nipple jets that break and ex centers badly made. Sometimes we just want a lantern, any lantern but I'd think again about this one.

I don't own a Butterfly but I have bought Butterfly parts and was impressed by their build and cost . I would think a Butterfly would be odds on a better pick for a bit more money .


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Oh dear, I will adjust my expectations accordingly.

 

Do not forget the goods will be subject to Import duties ,as the goods are imported outside of the EEC zone ... usually levied on you by the Post office on behalf of HMRC...probably another £15 approx..on top..you cannot get away with much these days... still it will still be interesting good luck

 

Bugger, I forgot about that. Fingers crossed it escapes.
I have particular contempt for draconian import duties & the post office £8 'handling fee' that I had to pay one time because a USA-to-UK item (Coleman part) was just 4p over the £15 limit. Due to the customs dollar exchange rate being slightly different to what I actually paid. So a bargain £14 item became £27 & the same as UK price! Grrrrr... Cheers.

 

Hi .. Please let us all know how you get on with your new lamp when it arrives and
you start tinkering with it ... a pic or two would be real good .. take care good luck

Alb

 

If I had access to surplus Military Vapalux in my region I'd never look back.

 

Just out of curiosity, what is your "region", anlrolph?

 

North America, USA, Kentucky.
From what I gather, one GB branch on the family tree got a foothold in the Virginia Colonies early 1600's with tobacco.



I was lucky enough to pick up a surplus Vapalux M320 before Royal Post started to become overly particular concerning fuel residue.

 

Well out of curiousityI trawled my net on the evil bay and found this ..
500W Golden Globe Pressure Kerosene Oil Lantern Lamp Lighting Outdoor Camping UK 8227730980033 | eBay
Seems Ok .. I messaged the seller .. hey ho ..its located in the UK and a very nice
and exact reply to me too... so no import charges .. it must have come over in a sea container accross the ocean main and passed by HMRC customs ,,, so about £47 to your
door as per info .... after some mental anguish/deliberation/soul searching ...do I need
another Chinee Silver coloured ghost lamp sitting along my two others similar ? ... nay lad !
The next day I bought a diffirent Bialaddin animal born in 1954 ... 305 army .. havent
got one of those ...complete with MOD army green paint unit col and number .. yay

 

That's less risk then, good find. You've asked the right questions of the seller & have comeback if it turns out to be a drop-shipped item. With over a million sales & 32k items currently for sale I think it's more likely to be drop-shipped. But with only 2 of these lamps for sale you might be right about the container-full of stuff to uk theory. Good luck.

 

Don't buy one! Complete junk.
Mine managed to evade customs duty, but was bashed and broken to pieces in transit, which initially masked how shockingly bad the materials & build quality is.
Now I've had a chance to look closely, it's just so badly made. I'd struggle to justify paying £5 for this piece of rubbish & even then I'm not sure I'd ever trust using the bloody thing.
I've requested a full refund, so I'll await the response from the Chinese seller via Aliexpress (who've always been very good arbiters before now).

 

Oh dear!

 

Ha ha. Yep. The poor parcelforce delivery driver's face as he handed over the broken-glass rattling, dented, bashed & abused package was priceless. Was worth it just for that.
Was declared as $21 value so it avoided customs /vat. That would've been the icing on the cake if I'd had to pay another £16 for the privilege & I wouldn't have got any refund for that!

 

I bought one, works well, havent had a problem, seems well made, bright,
Its the first lantern i have ever bought brand new

 

Must be from a different factory to mine then, this one I have is truly appalling quality. Glad you lucked-in with yours

 

Sorry mate... looks like a Friday Ford eh argh well its all part of the rich tapestry of life as
they say... the one I looked at..... seemed just too good , its seller was selling loads of fashion ladies goods and eastern repro items ... it was the only lantern there nothing tasty engineering or mechanical ..so a bit out of place ...good luck

 

The good news is I got a partial refund for the damage to this chinese anchor lamp, without having to return it, so overall it cost me £8. About what it's probably worth & okay for novelty value. Ah well, I'll stick a spare glass on it, buy a cheap ceramic nozzle and fire it up & hope for the best. If no good, it'll be turned into a retro electric table lamp.

 

So, with a spare Coleman glass fitted & the 4 pieces of broken ceramic nozzle held back together with car exhaust putty & a wooden drawer knob on the pump shaft, it pressured up, pre-heated & it runs!
(I hate to say it.... quite nicely, actually).

From a manufacturing/engineering point of view, it's still shockingly poorly made, with every single part pared down to the absolute lowest quality. Nothing really fits properly. The control valve is hit & miss but there is a tiny sweet-spot that gives max light with no pulsing.
So is this the Dacia Sandero of the lamp world? Should I look beyond it's shortcomings & delight that it just does the job intended?
Maybe that could be it's enduring charm? Time will tell........

 

Yes, the Dacias are made to a budget, that's why they're such good value. We've four in the extended family, one Sandero is at 135k with only having had a light switch replaced, another having not missed a beat at 35k, a Duster at 45k without a hitch and another Duster at 22k, again so far faultless.
Other family cars including an Astra, a Ford B-Max and a Polo have all had numerous not easily cured faults from new.....

I agree totally that there are some shockingly poorly made Chinese products out there that really don't come up to anywhere near the mark. The analogy I think would be best suited to something from the soviet era, a Moskvich perhaps?

Back to the lamp. For your £8 I think a (just) working lamp is a bargain. As you mentioned, it does the job as intended. I've seen a cheap Chinese lantern working locally by a visting fisher (though I don't know which make), the chap said it cost him £35 and did it's job when asked. I suspect that these Chinese products vary in quality from bad to a low average.
Would I buy one? Perhaps not, having just bought what I suspect is a never used Bialaddin 300x for £40 (I don't know if that was cheap or expensive, I'm still very new to this malarky) it makes the Chinese lamp look expensive. If I was offered one for £8 though, sure, I'd take a punt, why not? The novelty value alone has to be worth it.

Stevie

 

Ah, maybe the Dacia analogy was a bit unfair & yours is better!
Not knocking them, well-proven renault underpinnings, I had a test drive and I'd be driving a duster now (not a white one with very thin paint though!) if the salesman had agreed another £100 on my trade-in value. Obv didn't want my business & I had to walk away
Nice price on the bialaddin.

 

If this lantern is a Dacia, is a Petromax a Mercedes.

My Sprinter is now at 330,000 miles and still going strong.

 

My Sprinter is going strong too!

 

With Asian lanterns, you get what you pay for... If you are a wholesaler and you want a very well made product they will make it for you - and you will pay for it, too! No shortcuts. However, if you want something very cheap and just want to sell a lot of that particular lantern then they will make that, too!
It's all based on what you're really willing to spend - you get what you pay for!

 

We'll, I've got 4 Chinese lanterns, 2x Anchor 950s, 1 Anchor 909 and a Light Brand 350cp. The 2x 950s were owned by a scout group so they must have been hammered quite a bit, and the other 2x I don't know the history of but all of them now work well after a fettle and new mantles. I bought new jets for all of them because they were all worn to varying degrees but that means they probably saw quite a bit of use. The springs inside the pumps were shot on the 2x 950s so I replaced all of them just in case, but when the power goes as it does up here from time to time, the Coleman naphtha lamps get lit first and then the Chinese brigade come out and fill the house with light, and boy are they bright! I don't know if I've been particularly lucky but I've got far worse lanterns in my collection.

 

I had a Vauxhall Cavalier mark 2 from pretty much new and it only gave up after 250,000 miles. My Volvo 850 estate only managed 118,000 miles.