At least some of the tripods seen with FL6 are slightly adapted surveyors' kit - such as is used to support a theodolite or a level. My guess is...
I made a couple one years ago by copying the a Fire museum stand onto a piece of board. I did get a blacksmith to make the front (double leg)...
You were robbed. I paid under 20p per litre recently
I reckon the two holes in the Tilley Mantle and the holes in Bialaddin plate are principally to allow the pre-heater flame to reach the burner...
The porkpie tank does distort a bit. The horizontal ledge on the topside has little to restrain it - and thus it tends to crate an outward and...
Do we know at what point in the process the Tilley tank bases were date stamped? I would guess after being cut out but before the tanks were...
It looks to be a device for heating the iron tyres as part of the process for shrinking them on to rims. I reckon you heat the tyre, which is...
It is less than 20p per litre at the moment - if you buy in quantity.
How do you fill them?
This ^^^^^^. But as it's a 320 you will need to slacken the big knurled nut in order to rotate the cage.
The bit that causes most trouble works (not) by an odd shaped piece of rubber sheet being swung about a pivot, such that a hole in the rubber...
Check with a magnet before stripping the paint as I think it could be a steel tank and cage. It's your lantern to do as you please - but the...
In order to make a seal, it is the control cock that needs to seat on the washer against the tank. The washer is put in place before the locating...
It looks to me that the only aluminium parts are the equivalent of these. If that is correct, let me have your address by PM and I will put them...
It looks to me a though the pump is part brass and part aluminium. Possibly someone has replaced the original pump rod and cylinder cap with...
Whatever it is, it has been made nicely. Even so, fixing the upper handle to the reflector is questionable; presumably that is the reason for the...
Something further is a bit odd. Judging by the torn Tilley Lamp transfer on the bottom of the tank, it looks as though the same image has been...
I think you need another Bialaddin bowl fire that operates well - and work back from there.
The design and materials are far removed from the usual Tilley fare - and doesn't appear to have been marketed in the UK. It makes one question...
Brass would be an unusual material form which to make a ball bearing....
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