Continental 1015

For many years I searched for a "Continental Lamp". Some time ago I found this lamp, which looked very worn. During a first pressure test a big rust patch on the tank bottom came off. Also the Mica cylinder was in very bad condition, I got such a cylinder luckily quite fast, thank you Erik!
The tank bottom was only rusty from the outside, so a metal sheet could be soldered on (thanks Jan!). Now the Conti lights up again.

 

A lucky find!

 

@leo

I’ve never seen one of those. Very nice.

Can you show a photo of the repair to the base?

Cheers

Tony

 

@leo

This lamp has some 'feel good' about it.

Firstly, there is nothing better than finding a lamp that you have been searching for. It is great to see your many years of searching finally paid off.

Secondly, it is nice to see a couple of other collectors pitched in and helped you get this old girl up and running. Wunderbar

 

Congratulations Leo, it has cleaned up nicely considering the condition you found it in.

 

Thanks for your comments!

 

@leo

Thank you.

Tony

 

These Continental lanterns are really nice !
Good find and fettle. Whoever Jan may be, he did a good job.

 

That is a beautiful lamp.
Top job getting it running again.

 

Fantastic lantern, great job

Regards,
Titoo

 

Hi this lamp is use kerosene or benzene

 

Hi,
The 1015 lanterns run on gasoline.
But with a little additional pre-heating they also will run on kerosene.
Erik

 

thank you sir I will try

 

pls see

 

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Nice looking lantern. Well done on getting her up and running.
Cheers
Pete