I have a small, simple electric oven all for myself. It has never been used for baking anything that's edible. I've never bake any paints or...
That BR is quite a find. All the BR types are hard to find. Tilley made three BR lanterns for Southern in about 1959-60. All were painted in...
I’ve noticed several threads recently here and on other forums and GPA related Facebook pages about tools and what people use for fettling...
Nice one @Seamanjive. Now you have just stepped into the Coleman cave of treasures. It’s a whole new adventure. I have been in this cave for a...
No this is a type 3. Type 4 has different air buttons and a pump from the X246A lantern. I can't be sure of the dates but 1950s for sure. Another...
If I had of used your PLC to try and identify this lamp, I would have read that type 4 were painted silver. Talk about leading a horse to water .....
Research question: variation in pump fittings on Tilley tanks 1946-1955 Part 1: Unusual fitting on a Tilley X246 “Guardsman” tank. Long story...
I came across CPL by accident at the start of lockdown one. As an introduction, I am a lamp user with a general interest in the history and the...
I have three of them here and they were all painted gold all over. I had not seen one with black painted globe cage. Odd that Coleman exported...
Today, I finished the fettling of a Coleman L228 Slant. This L228 is date stamped 9 1 representing January 1929. I purchased this one from the US...
US Mil-Spec, 1980, SMP. Interesting to work on. Had a continual problem with threads on the lantern - they don't feel as deeply cut as some I...
Hello Wim, Thank you for your response. I looked again but I couldn't see a number. I was trying to pinpoint the age first, also, the possible...
...Epoxy, Acrylic, Nitrocellulose lacquer, etc... Some paint types are not suited for oven baking. Others might specifically require high...
Just an added note:- In case if anyone would wish to go even further on regards to getting the highest bond strengths of the paint or coating on...
@Matty Of course many of the earlier paints were leaded. There was a reason to be so. In the early days, there were no such stuffs as 2K epoxies,...
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