Thanks for the compliments, I may plan on making a proper mantle holder in the future but right now I’m trying to mastering the art of the...
Right now I’m just using a metal wire as the mantle holder, maybe in the future I might considering making something better as the thin steel wire...
Thanks for the congratulation, the can you saw was not fuel, it just dish soap so nothing very flammable near by, the lamp runs on...
After I’ve drained the oil and lift the wick to 1/8th of an inch above the wick tube and let it burned down, and rub the wick in circular motion...
I’ve finally managed to create a sort of a proper cone shaped mantle with some unevenness. Which you can see from the images attached below. I...
£15 for a mantle holder is not bad at all considering this is a rare item. However I got my Famos 120CP entire lamp with chimney for £20 and the...
the newly created replacement mantle holder is quite expensive considering the mantle is not included.
I think it is far brighter than carbide lamp since the wick in the famos120cp is 20 lign, which produces quite a significant amount of light than...
Here is the mantle glow profile with a top removed cone shape. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
And partially managed to create a half working mantle, the upright mantle upper opening is very important for the lamp to work correctly as the...
I've realised that you can actually use a Famos center draft lamp without any mantle by simply removing the flame spreader. The flame quickly...
At the same time I’ve managed to explore a little bit more with the flame spreader and the shape profile of the blue flame. The more the flame...
How well did it go? Did you managed to get the mantle into the proper cone shape?
I'm on my way to figuring out the correct ways of producing the cone shape mantle, which requires some skills. The mantle bag shrinks...
Now I probably needs to make some cone shaped mantle, Aladdin mantle is extremely pricey costing more than £25 per single mantle. The unburnt net...
Here is a video of such lamp [MEDIA]
Recently I've managed to restore a old Famos lamp with a new wick installed and trimmed. The lamp has a flame spreader as it comes with it only a...
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