The top insect screen for the X246A & B - would anyone have photo and dimensions please ? Also, the bottom screen that opens up, two halves on a pivot. I need to make some up. Thank you.
you beat me to it here are some mesh hole specs if you are sourcing the perforated metal (s/steel) for the top screen.. regards pb
@Tony Press @podbros Thanks, gentlemen. Just what I needed. The photo shows why. I was flummoxed when I found these beetles in my lantern - I had not thought of an invasion from above. Luckily they missed the mantle on their way down. That's a Mk 1 screen at the bottom. Funny what the glass has done with the optics - it shows an underside view of the spring which hold the screen to the vapouriser. For the spring, you snip a wire from the kitchen eggbeater and hope for scrambled eggs at next day's breakfast. Tony, if it's not too much trouble, could you possibly flip that small one over and send a pic ? I assume that one of those half-plates has a joggle-up for the rivet and that the two plates and coil spring are sandwiched between two large washers ? Thanks.
look forward to seeing what you come up with i always thought an old clothes peg spring might be adapted but if you can find stainless wire that works then so much the better
