Hopefully there's a special place in Hell reserved for the perpetrators of these sorts of conversion!! :rage: What about converting a paraffin...
Oddly enough, I do the exact opposite when I'm burning in a new Tilley mantle - give it a blast at full pressure when I'm absolutely certain the...
Thanks John - great info! I well remember the struggle I had many decades ago with an Austin Maxi rear hub which I spent about a week trying to...
I don't see that as a problem at all - surely they've earned their place on the shelf merely by managing to remain as they left the factory all...
Very nice! - what's the non-Tilley lantern?
Impeccable work and reportage as we've come to expect from you, John. :thumbup: :D Have I missed the bit where you replaced the main plunger to...
:-k Much as I'd like to be with you all, it's a bit far for me... :(
Yes, you need to know what you're looking for - exactly as I explained above. You just can't beat a BNIB, NOS vapouriser, especially for £12. Note...
Well, it crash-tested itself really. The post it was on started to fall over but was stopped when it lodged against the A-frame cover of the...
Excellent work! As long as the tank is clean and you filter the fuel through a fine mesh, problems with jet blockage ought to be few. Couldn't...
There'll be complaints! Personally, I think something called Brasso, designed to clean brass and with instructions to that effect on the tin...
Black mantle is only part of it - there were the flare-ups as well as the temperature dropped! I did once have a VS that worked perfectly which I...
Great stuff, John - perhaps this is at least part of the answer with the Veritas Superb, a lot of which seem very temperamental, being susceptible...
I think part of the problem with steel bases rusting out is that paraffin and water are immiscible, the paraffin floating on top of the water....
Sorry, I should have said, 'anywhere but Tilley'. From memory, we've had reports of vapourisers with no jets, two jets, jets too small, jets too...
Er, anywhere?
[-X Try to be more empathetic MF - apparently they've been overwhelmed by orders from the Heard and McDonald Islands trying to beat the latest...
Well there's a surprise! :doh: :whistle: With the X246B especially, I've found that after a settling in period, sometimes the vapouriser, burner...
Philistine... [-X
Except my brain burped and I meant a Vapalux donut, Jean :doh: :oops: - somehow I don't think one of those will be gracing Tilley Towers any time...
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