Sorry for the dark photo--my friend said it had a 'w' in the name--looks like a 1958 Petromax to me. [ATTACH]
I have a similar lantern. just got the replacement umbrella gen. from OCP. Do you have info on other parts sources?
here's the 'heat shield' bryte-Lyt sent--stainless
Just ordered the parts I think I need from Bryte-lyt(sp?) they are in Clearwater, Fl. so very close to me. Needed the upper vaporizer needle, tank...
The folks at Independence Porcelain Enamel do a great job--a fair price and the product is super clean and period correct.
Didn't have the Mothers around so I used Nevr-Dull Wading. Seemed to work ok. There are only a few spots the plating had separated- Did not need...
Precaution only
these are not the best that they have - get the VHT Flame-Proof stuff--Had it on my Toyota Headers for 3 years now and no flaking/peeling or faults
IPE DOES A GREAT JOB AT A REASONABLE PRICE! I DON'T THINK YOU WILL FIND A BETTER VALUE.
Tank was filthy. Filled with SuperClean and ~ 50 BBs-shake-shake-shake. Horrible gunk came out after two days of this. Rinsed and started again....
yes, there are threads. The mantle mount(ceramic I think) unscrewed easily from this.It appeared reasonably clean, so all that I did was warm...
*Split from this topic. Here is the lantern. It's an H-502--bottom of fount has numbers 9528 stamped. As far as I can tell. it's only missing the...
I just had a buddy call me with a seemingly good buy on a Hipo--$20. No globe, but he says all the other parts appear to be intact(holds pressure...
i think they designed these this way(noise) to block out all the racket from the artillary---
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