A wash in very hot water with detergent added improved matters considerably, disposing of the grime and leaving the nickel plating responsive to...
The ceramic nozzle is embossed ‘German Type’, likely made in India and invoking the German connection as a sign of quality, perhaps. [ATTACH]...
Made in India by the company founded by Franz Racek but long after his death in 1943 and not by then made in Germany and imported. I’ve...
@Paul Burnell Paul, I admire your tenacity in getting it done before you turn in. Well done! Finicky little things sometime, NRV’s. Too little...
Welcome Russ! No pump, ‘benzoline’ (old name for gasoline without lead or additives), a priming with methylated spirits burnt in the priming cup...
@Paul Burnell There’s no burning outside the mantle anymore, so that’s progress. The same number of pumps, even with the lamp pump installed in...
@Paul Burnell I’ve had that happen with a worn vapouriser. A swap in camp with the vapouriser of my second, correctly working, Bialaddin bowl...
A leaflet produced for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (BP), specifically for their Royal Standard brand of lamp oil by the Baynard Press, of which...
… and the fate of the carbide lantern?
As HERE with a paraffin stove. Made in Chalwyn’s South African factory I think. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
@vissertw Mine’s made by Riemann, Germany, Feuerhand superstructure and glass. Certainly a factory product and not home-made. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
@podbros It was a white enamel reflector that I used the same paint on (upper surface) as the tank. It doesn’t get hot enough in use for the...
I realise now from seeing the Vapalux lit why I favoured the slotted collar, it’s for the patterned light effect on the tank, and on the Vapalux...
Rust-Oleum ‘Painters’ Touch’ followed by a clear lacquer.
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...
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