Thanks Robbo. Night-time and the mantle’s illumination brings out the blue better still I think. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [MEDIA]
Hey thanks Pete.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] As it reached me it, the brown paint stripped from the tank and globe cage, with a dark blue cap to the hood, so a mismatch,...
Progress, having had a bit of a wait for materials. Specifically, the riveted construction required brass rod having a short length at each end...
I’ve decided to go off-piste with the colour. Though cream would be ‘correct’ for the cap in dark blue, I don’t want another cream-coloured...
‘crizzling’? A grand acquisition Gary. I gather production of those continued to 1939, so perhaps you meant yours is a 1907 pattern example...
I do enjoy a spot of investigative surgery on lamps/stoves! Not damage I’d have expected from over-pressurisation, which I would have thought...
For this project, as outlined HERE, a collection of parts from different lamps - brown-painted (originally) tank and globe cage/collar, but with a...
@David Shouksmith You know, I’d not spotted (and was unaware of) there being caps in navy blue and the lighter blue, so thanks for that...
Thanks S-J, the ‘bulge’ globe certainly fills the available space much better. I’m glad I persevered with it.
I made an adjustment and have successfully fitted a Coleman ‘bulge’, which happens to be an English-made Pyrex product. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Thanks Jeff. @Sammi Jane I didn’t chuck the lamp socket and you’re welcome to it of course. Private message me with your address and I’ll post...
@Sammi Jane You’re right, two-core flex merely.
Yes, large too, the largest straight-sided Coleman glass (for a 295) not filling the available space. Though of the same height, a large Coleman...
@podbros Very little to report, Tim, on its origins. I was hoping that stripping off the non-original gold paint might disclose a trace at least...
Aww, thanks Sammi Jane and Andrew. That has me creased up laughing! John
Completed, more details HERE. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [MEDIA]
Vapalux 300, 40’s example with no War Department broad arrow or date stamp. Brass tank and collar of the solid (not slotted) pattern....
[ATTACH] It’s actually butane fuelled, with this Tilley mantle and ceramic nozzle/mantle support installed. [ATTACH] I was fortunate that the...
It’s not as incongruous a proposition as it may seem. In researching a history of a British manufacturer of paraffin stoves, William Hurlock...
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