Yeah, just don't let the wife catch you! :D
WD40 isn't much better than paraffin for oiling pump leathers - it's apparently just paraffin and perfume designed to disperse water (WD=water...
It's a waste of time trying to polish the gallery if you plan to use the lamp. The copper in the brass oxidises when it gets hot and forms copper...
And frequent, too! :lol: Anyway, I just love these time-travelling lanterns. The X246B which went back to the night in 1942 when the Dutch royal...
Well, you could follow the advice given elsewhere on these forums and attack it with sandpaper and/or use Max-Strength toilet cleaner - the one...
No masks, either - some people! ](*,) It's an underground bunker - sorry, should have mentioned that! :roll: Anyway, the guy Churchill selected...
This is one of Churchill's 'Secret Army' bunkers, set up to form the backbone of the British Resistance in the event of an invasion in 1940:-...
Bugger! - now I'm pining for my VL1s again... :-& :cry:
Perhaps I should just save my time and go straight to eBay then...
Well, in stark contrast, there was the Vapalux / Bialaddin hybrid with the crappy home-made top that went for £142 recently... Vintage Vapalux...
Yeah, that was the 'only test-fired' one I referred to above which now works after I changed the vapouriser for a new one...
Mind you, I did get a Veritas bowl-fire working... ...and a Thermidor 303, now I think about it - and they're almost a Veritas!
If it's the trading post you're referring to, George, no-one (except the Admin team) has sufficient privileges to reply to listings. That's to...
To be fair, the original 'conventional wisdom' that Veritas lanterns were rubbish applied only to the Superb. I don't think anyone criticised the...
Yes - and even more metal is going to have to be removed to polish out the scratches which look quite deep to me. Too late now but a 30 minute...
Thanks Tony and Wim - both of those back up what had read elsewhere...
Blurb Books UK (page 3) Bairstow Brothers (1985) Ltd. was put up for sale because the then owner (Stuart Kendall) was approaching retirement age....
I've seen those statements before - I think in a letter written by Peter Sunderland, the Works Manager at Bairstows to a London collector almost...
If I didn't define exactly what had gone to South Korea it's simply because I don't know - I'm not keeping anything back. I was told it had "all"...
To answer your question, Mike, from what I see here they're collecting Veritas stuff at the moment! Interesting enough lanterns, I suppose, but...
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