Very well done @Wayland. It has a good Norse ring to its name. 1-inch wick with a decent output.
Beautiful work and thanks for posting. No, not I … [ATTACH] I saw this at this year’s CCS/CPL Newark gathering, so someone was thinking as you...
Interesting indeed Tony. John
Excellent work.
Listing photo [ATTACH] For heating a large volume of water or animal feed mash, Jeff. Seller ascribes its manufacture to Primus, but the term’s...
@Camp numao Regarding the globe made up of glass strips, I’ve noticed that it has been common practice in India to fabricate a replacement globe...
@Camp numao I’m aware as you are that a date was often scratched on the base and 1928 seems right judging by the period look of the lantern....
@Reinhard I don’t see that instruction regarding fuel level in the extracts you’ve reproduced/translated.
Interesting @Reinhard @MYN I think the mating surfaces between those components are internally as the patent drawing suggests and not the...
@Martin K. I see.
Exactly, Martin and @MYN Fuel and air collide at the point of the green arrow and the whole length of the passage circled in red allows some...
@Martin K. Interesting thought Martin, but it was a leaking joint (with fresh graphite even so) and an inability to tighten the nut sufficiently...
@Tony Press I’m enjoying drawing comparisons with my Aladdin Petromax 828 of the same era Tony. Fresh from fettling a couple of those Tillite...
Packing for Newark at the start of June I dropped one of my two Dietz Vesta wick lamps, breaking the globe. It wasn’t one embossed with the...
There’s THIS previous topic and THIS also.
New one to me also. Component ‘C’ on my burner is brass as you can see and it’s threaded to screw into the cast iron body ‘B’. [ATTACH]
Of course, Nils, thanks for putting me right on that. I should have remembered this grubby example I have where the contact rim is clearly...
Well yes … … but out of separate outlets. Fuel outlet. Pressurised air outlet. [ATTACH] The shut-off, or release, of the atomised fuel and...
With no Tillite, I’d use an alcohol lighting torch on Tilleys.
The lever requirement would impact adversely on a lookalike and I’d not want to go down that route. Scavenging an Optimus pre-heater from another...
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