Tilley PL53 lighting up the cave tonight

The lamp and my favourite that started it all, providing some atmosphere and warmth tonight in the cave.

 

Now that sure is pretty..

 

I have to agree with @Fireexit1 about this PL53 being pretty.

Of course a regular gallery looks far better then the sewer cap these PL53 lantern normally come with.

Cheers,
Norman

 

It's working well!

 

Very nice, I like the black and white photo, looks awesome to me.

 

Ahhh! @Norman I know deep down, in your heart of hearts, you lust after these PL53s.

 

@AussiePete
So do I mate, I've only got one, and I wish they would grow into more but that's seem impossible for me.

 

What's there not to like about these? Lovely design!

 

Thank you all for the comments, yes it really is a nice lamp and it was basically the way I got it apart from adding a few things, will have to do an update on it for the reference library.
Photography is another one of my passions and since I haven't done many road trips lately, thought last night provided an excellent opportunity for a wee snap or two

 

Burning well, nice photo as well.

 

@Walkop Yes it burns really well and I'm using different paraffin that supposedly burns brighter, glad you like the photo thank you.

 

Put lighters on your PL53 and they become works of art....

 

Oh I really like those, never seen them on a PL53 before something to look out for I think, love the lamps look amazing.

 

What is this paraffin of which you speak?

Tony

 

One is steel fount, the other brass.

 

@Tony Press this paraffin I bought from a hardware shop, the guy was quite excited telling me about how brighter it burned, to be fair I can't tell the difference not unless I run two lamps side by side. Anyways quite competitively priced at £9 for a small local business.

 

@0P30 - Hmm - maybe a touch of the blarney there ? Although I have wondered about if anything could be added to paraffin that would encourage brighter burning. But overall I would have thought "cleaner" paraffin will burn better and not clog things up as quickly. But that would be reducing the chances of things going dimmer due to carbon build-up rather than brightening things up?
Like you say tho - a good price for a small shop.
cheers
Chris

 

Petrol.

Seriously though, it is not what is added, it is what is taken away that counts, by which I mean impurities. I can't find the reference just now but basically, back in the day, paraffin / kerosene was extracted from crude oil by fractional distilation within a specific temperature range. Modern paraffin is taken from a wider temperature range and therefor is not as pure = volatile as the paraffin used by our ancestors.

 

can we see more of the cave?

 

@Fireexit1 it may have been a good sale pitch the best value I've found is in B&Q just under £8 advertised as greenhouse heater fuel, burns ok with no smells.

 

@scl I could show some pic's when it is finished. At the moment I'm sheeting the inside with 6mm ply and it is used as a place for my lamp fixing and displaying, home cinema, retro gaming and one of my retro motor's plus an extra room to the house lol

 

goody, cant wait to see.

 

Must be the UK winter coming. Busy doing the same in the shed before the cold comes!