Base camp sell new vapourisers from Vapalux and when I put one on my 300x it was transformed . Old vapourisers are the cause of all sorts of dim...
My very, very limited experience of pressure lamps is that most of them (Hipolito/Petromax apart!) are simple but capricious little things. The...
So couldn't resist a bit more fettling before starting work ...glad to say the pump had no cracks after water test. So next tried adapting a biro...
Thanks all. I've tried new pips, stretching the spring, changing the end for one from another Hendon pump. It is still acting like a syringe and...
in the words of Columbo..just one more thing. Should the narrow collar that holds the pump in the tank unscrew, like the pump on later models, or...
Hi all, Would appreciate some advice with my second attempt at fettling a Tilley. This is a late porkpie 246 with the later hood. It has the...
So its pork pie Tilley or nowt?
I've set people off now..but who DESERVES to be the Hoover of pressure lamps? Reading posts, people are sometimes a bit sniffy about Tilleys post...
Thanks - I think Christer has made this an international challenge ; is there a pressure lamp make out there worthy of being the Hoover of lamps....
Hi Christer, Yes point taken! I guess before I realised the wealth of makers I'd always called these lamps 'Tilley lamps'- I'm sure I'm not alone...
Hi all, Over the last few months I've become just a little obsessed with British pressure lamps. (They get to you like your Hornby trains from...
Hello all, If anyone has the patience can you advise me on Tilley X246 and X246A hoods? (I'm trying to put together one lamp from parts but need...
Hi all I've got a Hipolito 502 which leaks at the point where the lower vapouriser screws into the fount.I have found that the chrome threaded...
Vapourisers appear on eBay in various states of repair- I get the feeling I might be replacing one dodgy vapouriser with another? Do you or anyone...
Hi Gneiss, Thanks for the prompt reply! I'm a newbie so pardon my ignorance- are the air tubes the three arms of the burner, and the little screw...
Hello All, I may be treading old ground but I haven't found a previous post which answers my question.. My Bialaddin 300x fired up properly after...
Thanks all- went with a BIaladdin 300x in lovely condition and it needed very little servicing. My next lamp is a Bialaddin 305 - maybe a Tilley...
Hi both, Thanks for the advice. After posting I tried the pressure test in a bucket of water- no bubbles. So I decided that maybe I was trying to...
Hi All, Having had it easy with my first lamp, a Bialaddin 300X I should have realised the next one would be tricky! I'm trying to take the lamp...
Thanks to all for the advice and help- happy to say have had the satisfaction of firing successfully my first ever serviced and cleaned pressure...
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