Hi all, Here is my example of the 1912 Akron 81 portable table lamp. This is a gasoline fed single mantle lamp with an overhead horizontal through cowl u-shaped generator, and an outside jet with an open air mixing tube. I haven't seen any light output rating for this burner but probably around 350/400CP. As the generator/jet was gone this lamp hadn't been a runner if not for Dean Williams, who made a new generator and jet and also the generator connection nut. Millions thanks Dean! Thanks also to Mike Ogilvy, who made the measurements for the generator and jet. The lamp came in a pretty rough condition, with heavily oxidation that scarred the fount and with just spots of plating left. I had to strip it down to brass and this one I have no intension of re-plating. So here it is - still a nice lamp and after the action shots it will be a shelf queen as the burner is a bit tricky to adjust to perfect performance. A patent is associated to this lamp and the patent date "nov.26´12" can be seen stamped on the cowl. The patent is for a special spring clip wire shade holder. Unfortunately this was broken on my lamp so I had to solder holders for shade holder screws instead. /Conny
It is a very gracile lamp Conny, gratz What a piece of hard and welldone Work too, it looks new . Claus C
Michel - First I grinded the parts with sandpaper of different granulation and also with a special kind of soft rubbery sandpaper. Then I use steel wool and finish off with polishing. /Conny
Thanks Conny I used Caswell's nickel stripper in the past, but this product is more and more expensive Of course, elbow grease is cheaper ;-)
