@kettle Thanks for that info - have been having a go at cleaning off the rust but the markings are no clearer. :thumbup:
Postman delivered a refurb kit from Base Camp for my freebie Vapalux 320 this morning. All washers now replaced and new mantle fitted. Also gave...
Wow, looks wonderful - here in Mid Wales, we have gale force winds and rain and sleet. Just battening down the hatches and waiting for this one...
Thank you for sharing your wonderful pictures of Shetland, on my to do list to visit one day but unlikely to be any time soon. Not sure I could...
Honda generators are great - had one for mobile power while working in the African bush but can’t justify the cost these days! [ATTACH]...
Thanks all for feedback will need to do a bit more thinking about what to do. I’m not planning for the zombie apocalypse and in any realistic...
Thanks for replies - funnily enough just had a 15 min outage! As far as I know, the UV system is simply a tube (which I replace annually) not...
Thanks, Tony. Yes there is a tank maybe 2500 litres and the particle filter and uv lamp are downstream (on the house side) of the tank. Water is...
Hopefully not too daft a question on a forum for old school lighting and heating enthusiasts. In a past life, I spent a few years living a long...
@Fireexit1, eagle eyes on the “leak” and I will check again but I think that the paraffin around the base of the vapouriser may have been left...
Had a bit of a fiddle with the “hurricane” lamp and under the grease and rust found a makers stamp. “The Theodore Wakefields, Birmingham, British...
Had a quick fiddle with my new (to me) Vapalux 320. The seals looked OK and despite the mantle looking a bit tatty, I put a bit of new fuel in it...
The “port light” was just a guess because of the red glass on one side - on the basis that ships are supposed to display green and red lights at...
Thanks folks. No markings on the base of either lamp although the more conventional one has “British Manufactured” on the top of the glass....
The other day I responded to an ad for free stuff from someone clearing a house locally and went along to collect a couple of very rusty...
Thanks for the warning - the Vapalux was a bit of an unexpected arrival, I went to collect a couple of very rusty hurricane lamps from someone who...
Today I was lucky enough to have been given what looks like a very lightly used (but stored in a damp shed), Vapalux lantern. [ATTACH] It cane...
Hi Folks, I have enjoyed playing around with petrol, paraffin and meths stoves for a few years and have just found this forum and thought it...
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