I think the main things I need for the Primus's are spirit cups and globes. Only one of mine has a globe and that's a campingaz one that I had...
Thank you lads. I've near enough decided to take the best parts from both lamps and make one good one, keeping the left over bits for spares. I've...
Well.....a bit more than a fettle really. It was (still is) a bit bent. I stripped It and straightened things out as best as I could, followed by...
I fired me BR Tilley up this afternoon. You'll notice I've left the paraffin preheater off, I'm making some measurements with a view to making a...
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Thanks Henry....are these shrouds available anywhere.??
Richie lad, your not thick, just learning. We all had to start knowing nothing about these lamps and their hidden seals/valves etc. You'll have...
Thanks for that info David, I called It gold but realised as soon as I posted that It would be brass coloured. Plasticote is enamel based...
I tried using the paraffin wick thingy to light it once...sooted the glass up an made a bit of a mess. I used meths after that.
Here are some pictures of my old B.R. Tilley. I was given this as a birthday present back in the early 1990's, it's been hanging in garage roofs...
SRM rebuilt my bottom end and bodged it, it lasted 8 1/2 thousand miles before the drive side big end seized due to a bad crank regrind. Also the...
The bike on the left with the hose hanging round the headlamp is a 1955 BSA B31, it's a 1956 model year with Ariel full width hubs...BSA used to...
I've got more in me shed down the garden, along with about 100 hurricane lamps that I've started fettling some of since this ongoing lockdown. I'm...
Sorry about that, I posted the wrong photo's so deleted them and reposted the correct ones.
After several years of suffering mental health issues, depression/anxiety etc....going through a divorce after 35 years of marriage and settling...
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