Tilley X359 Dated 11/59

Hello all I was lucky enough to find this X359 on ebay for $30AUD, although it didn't have a vaporiser, globe, hood and a burner, but it did have the tillite pre-burner.
I have three X359 with the tillite burner now and they all have the same problem with the broken pin, not to worry maybe one day I can get them fixed anyway.
I also got a Tilley X246A with a X359 hood some time ago so the plan was to add the missing parts, which I have done now and here is the finished product, with some polishing of course and the fount came up just nice which was great as far as I'm concerned.
So here are some photos.

 

Looks nice
Did you see Henry Plews's post recently on his experiments with a modified preheat ?

 

@rayw I'm not sure if I have or not, have you got the link thanks for the comment.

 

Nice one !
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Very nice. Getting harder to find too these days.

 

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