Yea, in the video the lantern didn't sound like it was running maximally. Could be not enough pressure left in the tank after you used the rapid heater. Could be the generator didn't get hot enough with the rapid heater use. Sometimes its peculiar but a kerosene lantern has to sit and run for an hour to sort itself out .
Confession: Dear forum and pressure lamps community members, I hope you are doing well and thank you very much for all the support provided during the restoration of this Lantern. I want to start by admitting something that has been weighing heavily on my conscience last day and night. During the time when I was working to restore this beautiful 238B lantern, and where you were giving me direct and prompt advice on each point, and where I was about to finish the work, I decided something that I deeply regret now (A colleague from this forum highlighted this to me in fact). I allowed my selfishness to cloud my judgment, and I ended up willing to sell the lantern considering the financial amount, based on some advice from someone, despite all the effort, feelings and help that you and others put into its restoration. I am truly sorry for betraying the trust we had during this work. Your support deserved so much more respect than I showed when I had that thought and decision. I fully understand the hurt and disappointment to lantern collectors such a decision causes. Looking back, I realize the gravity of my mistake. The lantern represented not just an object of high financial value, but a lantern’s history symbol and a symbol of our cooperation in this forum, perseverance, and the time we invested together. I deeply regret miss valuing what you’ve shared over a fleeting financial gain, and for that, I am truly sorry. Thank you for taking the time to read my confession, and I hope we can eventually surpass this matter.
My only issue is did you pretend not to know how to restore the lantern to create interest in it to sell? Because at the beginning you seemed not to understand anything about how to repair the lantern and then all of sudden you restore the lantern like a master fettler. lol
In fact I did some few works on lanterns before but I am a stove guy not a lantern guy and that experience with stoves helped me. I was lacking specific technicalities at each level of fixing the lantern and the fact it is a very rare one made me very prudent. And thank you for the positive spirit.
My friend, It is not a question of being a stove or lantern collector and turn to the dark side and start collecting stoves or see the light and start collecting lanterns. For me, personally, somebody crosses a line when he/she, ends up with a fine, rare lamp or stove WITH help of forum members and then sells the stove or lantern. Basically, making a profit over the back of forum members who donate knowledge, time and maybe even parts. It honors you that you "speek out" (?) here and now about this situation. You are a good man who was tempted or tested or ;-) So leave it there.
Unless you are in a dire financial state or personally, a non-collector, it shouldn't be too difficult to overcome the temptation of selling it. Your confession here shows that you still have conscience and not cowardly to admit certain truths. Hopefully, you are not in a situation that prohibits any corrective decision changes.
Myn, I came across this patent, by Boyd W. Tullis applied for in January 1940, while working for Coleman. What a patent! I salute the man! Thanks for sharing it! I have new and deep respect for the fathers of our lanterns !
The patents by him eventually led to some of the best products Coleman had ever made. If you read through each of them, you'd realize that they would have certainly required a person with profound knowledge and ingenuity to come up with.
Absolutely Myn. I am really impressed with his logical layout in his patent description. His drawing is só good, one can almost use it as a manufacturing drawing! Today in 2024, 84 years later, with all our CAD and other computer aids, we could not do any better!
