Finally I succeed to start my Vapalux 320. Filled full preheater with meths jelly and a little pure meths, pumped well over 70 strokes -- and lo!...
Bottom row, last on the right-hand side made me laughing. :lol: Great!
I may guess that it's from the '70s -- the graphics looks '70-ish. BTW - what do you use as a mantle? It's size of... hem... No, wrong, those...
Welcome! It's hard to tell, what situation with Petromax lamps is in Scotland now (I was there for the last time during holidays '85 [great time!...
All night vapourizer was sitting in the rust remover (top part, with jet nozzle, I didn't risk to put in it for long time the rear part with brass...
70 strokes, you say? I haven't exceeded 20 - somewhere here was about rounding of the bottom of the fount due too hard pumping... (and 20 in my...
So I did according to tip of Steve -- fired the lamp without globe and mantle. The pattern of the flames is even, but I expected bigger ones --...
OK, great, but mine has a hole in it. Not round hole for ignition, as in WW 2nd models, but made by previous owner. My lamp is from the '70s, I...
I'm giving it to "open" section -- non pressure! [ATTACH] From Polish newspaper - 1910, translation (I think that one or 2 members of CPL reads...
Thanx, Steve. I'll do it. The mantle is one distributed by German company Max Fuchs AG for gas lamps, diameter 7cm (2 3/4"). If the experiment...
Is it the hole in the glass? I guess no, the old versions have hole for match... [ATTACH] Mixing chamber seems to be clean inside (no spiders...
Finally I've started my Vapalux 320. Pump leather was made new, from the jet was squirting thin jet of kerosene, full preheater of meths burnt......
According to the picture: [ATTACH] there is a big, rectangular, flat nut, which keeps the mixing tube in place. Another is on the opposite side...
Skipper, kaboom? :wink: Ouch, it may be dangerous. Try to: 1.) Increase air gap between jet nozzle and mixing tube. 2.) Look at the burner --...
Very nice, congrats! :) (Last night start of my Vapalux failed -- leather in the pump is broken, now the new one is drying in the form). Do I...
I made a tool for cleaning of jet nozzle -- with wire from brake cable and piece of metal. Now, after pumping, the jet is hissing! The residues...
A colleague of mine (in Germany) designed a cargo bike for Africa, quite simple and all-puropse. Some "charity" company emerged and started...
Thanx! With soft soldering -- it would be much easier, and the pump unit will not get un-solder in the process.
I have a Phenix stove -- after my wife's grandmother (teacher), who used it before WW 2nd, in '30s, to make a coffe, before housemaid started the...
I have to trust you -- you are The Doctor... :wink: I was thinking that due to high temperature non-steel wire will melt. Copper is even more...
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