Tilley X246B are much maligned but they are plentiful and cheap here. Once you get one working well it is very quiet and inoffensive to use on a...
Depends on your camp site quite honestly. Some pack you in like sardines in a tin. A 500CP Petromax Hipolito or any other will be most unpopular...
Green from Copper ions in the flame. You can see how it has been flame cleaning oxidation from the spigot. It is nearly all done.
Vap still wasn't hot enough. Why? Might have taken off if the vapour had been lit straight away? My Primus 96 stove did this on me yesterday a...
You might consider doing the next light-up outside? I think I can see four different cans of fuel and gas within 2ft...
This is not at all loud but it is very bright. [ATTACH]
But when you have a good one.. I am now sitting beside a 1974 X246B which has a Korean replacement vap that can be serviced. It hisses quietly...
You could check member services... Enamelling
I always put this down to the way the mantle has settled with a parallel sided barrel waist and a cone shaped top. The hot gases leave the wick...
The vintage wireless forum has a sub section for offers and requests for equipment transport. Maybe an idea here?
The description was that it is blowing air but no fuel even though there is fuel in it. That sounds like pick up tube above fuel level. Add more...
This was fun but very expensive to keep. The bottles went back to BOC last year. I reckon I had it close to 40 years. I hate to think how much I...
Taking the pixels in that photograph the pitch of the 100HK nipple is 0.75mm not 1mm. M7x0.75 is a known thread. Taps for cleaning up any...
These things are beautiful but they have become money sinks. The price of mantles today is just stupid.
Your flame picture without a mantle shows clear yellow streaks which should not be there. That excess fuel is what is burning outside your...
That point about "Rust Bullets or Bombs" seems an interesting one. Hadn't thought about that much.
It might be interesting to put a 100 Ohm resistor on it and see what Voltage it gives then. 30-40mA would be expected if it was a perfect Voltage...
Looks nice though 3-4 Volts must have been open circuit then 70mA into a short circuit?
It says the open forum is for members to discuss anything...well here goes. We like pressure lamps, preferably fuelled by the liquid fuels, kero,...
That deserves a write up and some photos Henry! Loco7lamp went before you with some great home brew solutions.
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