What's the best Pressure Lamp.......

I have been badly bitten by the fascination of Paraffin Pressure Lamps started by refurbishing my late Father-in-Laws X246B Tilley and am interested in slowly increasing my Collection. My Question to those interested in Pressure Lamps is which Pressure Lamp is Best, most reliable and easiest to obtain Spare Parts for I live in Britain so I was contemplating adding a Vapalux to my Collection. Any Thoughts please?

 

Adding a Vapalux or a Bialaddin is definitely a good choice.

 

Willis & Bates products are well built and simple and their brands are Vapalux and Bialaddin and Imber Research.

 

Thank you, for your Advice, mind collecting Pressure Lamps is a slippery slope isn't it, I started off inheriting my late Father-in-Laws X246B Tilley and a 1946 X246 short Handle Tilley now I also have a 1950's Tilley Guardsman and now I've just bought a Vapalux 320........

 

Definitely a slippery slope…but your purchases sound like great choices to me! A good aspect is they are similar so you can use what you have learned from fettling the 246b.

there are so many other good choices from here too-depending on whether you prefer to start searching for more of the older Tilleys, or perhaps some Tilley table lamps!

 

Petromax are also good, also they work differently to Tilley and Bialaddin, there's also Coleman, most of them are petrol although they did make paraffin ones as well.
Hipolito are Portugese built Petromax and just as good if not better than the German made ones, the 500CP ones are lovely if you like being blinded and the sound of jet engines

 

It does become a bit addictive... I started with an Optimus, which I still can't get to run properly, and now it has nine little friends!Mostly Bialaddin and Vapalux, which have been excellent to get up and running, a Tilley and a Coleman that scares me - hot pressurised petrol isn't for me

 

And then it won't be long before you're seduced by the 'Dark Side' and start looking at stoves.

 

Go for it, Tilley and Willis & Bates are close cousins and work on similar principles.
See if you can find a decent Vapalux 300 project, great workhorses, akin to the X246.

Alec.