I've been having problems ever since I got it with keeping the shade on my TL106 level, and today I came up with the solution.! I bought a length of 5mm round cotton wick and made a circle of it to sit on the burner just below the air holes and it worked.! The shade now sits level without any problem.
Sounds like a simple solution. How does the wick stand up to the heat over extended periods of time? I expect it would get a bit charred.
I must try that @Sammi Jane, the post war shades quite often won’t sit straight. Overheating wouldn’t be much of a problem for me as my lamps aren’t lit very often, really just during power cuts.
As yet I haven't litted the lamp yet, I'll find out in due course. Charring isn't really a concern as I can just replace it at the cost of a couple of quid. Making the ring out of summat that contained synthetic fibres though where there was the risk of it melting...
The lamp has now been on for just over 90 minutes and the temperature has got up to 237°c / 460°F. I don't think it's going to get any hotter than that though.
Well three hours into the experiment and though the burner hasn't got much hotter, the cotton wick has only got up to 84°c / 184°F. Which is well below the temperature that cotton burns at, never mind reaching the point where there's auto-ignition, which is 764°F.!
