My friend Tim's dad owns a racing cam company called "Isky Racing Cams". His dad has recently passed away and the man was a little bit of a collector of things and the shop always had very interesting stuff in it. Kind of grew up fooling around the shop... working on cars .. You know doing things in cars and driving around fast. Anyway... They have been kind of cleaning up around the shop and cleaning a warehouse out and he just text me this... "Hey don't you like Coleman like lanterns... You want this? I said of course... But I don't know what it is. I think it's a mining lamp but it's really old... It looks like kero but I'm not sure....
Isky has been well known and highly regarded in racing circles for many years. You were fortunate to get to hang around with such knowledgeable and interesting folks. The Wolf lamp is a Davy type Safety lamp used to detect explosive atmosphere in coal mines, closed spaces in ships, sewers, industrial tanks and the like. Sometimes also used to detect oxygen depleted atmosphere. They often, but not always, have locking devices (Key lock or requiring a special magnet to open) that prohibit their opening by unauthorized persons, but the lamp could be relit with the sparker on the fount bottom. The lamp is made to burn naphtha. Coleman fuel works well. They do not make much light. Many, mostly British made reproductions are found, and those fakes are usually made to burn kerosene.
@burndout ok I really appreciate it. He said that it's empty but didn't mess with it to much. I'm going back to the shop on Wednesday to pick it up... Glad to hear it runs on Coleman fuel...I might have thought it was kero but I have never seen one. Regarding Isky's shop.... I've been his sons friend for a really long time. His dad Ed used to drop his son off for sleepover on the weekends with us every once in a while so I've been his friend before we could drive... bicycle era hahaha. Ed was a very cool guy and I was very fortunate to not just be someone they know but to this day treated like family and can come and go in the shop without a care. Ed lived to be well over 100 and he still smoked cigars (though he cut back) and liked meatball subs and cheeseburgers so I guess there's something to not eating right and still being fine. The car in the shop is his brother's which is also passed on...Eds car is in some NASCAR museum or something like that in Nebraska at the moment... valve cover says "Iskendarian" on the flat 4.
