Dears, A friend of mine just pop in from flea market with his first pressure lantern - Hasag 102 Petroleum. I am green with envy and sorry for that lamp... I am afraid that this is the last time the lantern is in one piece, so I made these pics to show it on the forum. My 102 Spiritus has heating dish located on the vaporizer. This one has on the other pipe that provides air. Everything seems to be in orginal state, so I wonder why that difference and if such a solution is in any other models? All the best, Piotrek
I'd say that the preheating bowl has been mounted incorrectly. It does absolutely make no sense to preheat the air tube rather than the generator. Otherwise that's a really rare piece in good nick. Unfortunately the glass globe is missing, and there is no easy replacement since the needed one it is a bit taller than the available ones (e. g. for Petromax 500) with the correct diameter.
Even without the globe , you may drop it at my house any time. You will even get a good coffee. Nobody did notice the double valve? It even has the original old style Preston horizontal loop. Clean it, fill her and light her up !
The red arrow-shaped hard rubber knob is for operating the excenter for the needle, whereas the round black fibre wheel is to operate the fuel valve. Both are combined into one single fitting of a quite unique shape as can be seen here. What you call "Preston horizontal loop" is a massive ring of metal without any inner connection to the generator. It is just screwed on and works as a heat conductor. I own a 102SP for burning alcohol which has the same setup except of the metal ring on the generator. There must also have been versions for burning petrol, according to the advertisings.
I was trying to convince my friend to sell it to me or swap for some functioning lantern. Unfortunatelly I told him all I know and that this is rare example and he got excited about it as well. He said that most likely some rich German collector will give him old Trabant or even Wartburg car with Volkswagen enginee so I lost it
@Piotrek @WimVe You can see this heating ring here on the right of the photo: From my Hasag 102 shown here: Hasag N0. 102 Cheers Tony
These solid, 'pseudo' Preston loops are also prevalent on some Primus models. If I'm living in Poland, I'd probably commit a crime, knowing the fact that your friend is now in possession of that.
Dears, So finally that lamp is fettled and in working condition. I did not have to swap it for nice old Wartburg as requested by my friend at the beginning, but unfortunately it cost me a really cool British Army stove No. 12 to get that lamp… It was waiting quite long to be fettled due to some missing or broken parts. In the meantime I got more HASAG 102 lamps. So recently I decided that I have enough parts to make the first lamp and most likely more soon. Rust is the problem with these lamps. Some history of Hasag 102 SP presented here. Patching the steel tank help needed This time the tank was almost perfect and just minor rust noted inside. I treated it with APP R Stop and then sealed the whole tank inside with dedicated tanks epoxy resign. I had a broken original HASAG glass, but finally replaced it with new Petromax 300/500 size – it works good. Old mantle (to small), old needle and jet. I noted some minor differences in my Hasag 102 lamps. These parts were presented in attached pics: 1. different jets: 1.1 with wire mesh 1.2 with ceramic centre 1.3 Spiritus lamp has completely different jet and jet holding part (102 SP parts are presented on separate picture) 2. Spiritus lamp has some additional part inside the air catchment tube. Petroleum have just plain tubes without any parts inside. 3. One Petroleum tank has additional useless blanking plug – most likely for manometer. 4. Minor differences in fuel caps 5. HASAG decals were in two sizes 6. Minor differences in pump handles. Spiritus lamp has no ring, but that was presented in other posts already. Petroleum have no HASAG logo on that steel plate next to preheating dish. Spiritus has HASAG logo on that plate, but that was presented in other posts already as well. While assembling that lamp one appreciate Petromax design I had to repeat assembling several times to learn the order. Something that I discovered – these 102 lamps have additional vertical pipe assembled to the end of pump inside the tank – just like in Colemans. Interesting, quiet lamp it is. Anybody knows where I can get glass that will fit? Now I will try make more lamps out of my remaining examples. Some other lamps as you can see are more rusted. I am afraid to clean tanks in citric acid solution and de-rust it completely. That may create holes just like in the Spiritus lamp tank. Most likely I will just: Step 1. gently shake tanks with tiny nuts inside to clean tanks from any loose rust. Step 2. treat tanks with APP R Stop Step 3. seal tanks with dedicated for fuel tanks epoxy resign I hope that R Stop and epoxy with stop any rust progress and most of all that epoxy will enforce tanks from inside. This way tanks should be stronger and holes avoided. What do you think about that? What would you do? I do not have much experience with steel tanks and really prefer brass stuff instead – respect to Colemans collectors all the best, Piotrek
A fitting glass cylinder will be hard to find, since it's the same size like for Ditmar 300 CP lanterns (501 / 506 and the like). Maybe you could get a Mica one instead. I'm quite surprised that there seem to be still so many 102s around in Poland...
@Martin K. There are not many. I am just good at finding them and British Army stove no. 12 is not a cheap one... Friend of mine that collects lamps for approx.30 years has one or two of them. I have five Petromax "R" lamps and these are not popular either. Anyway it seems that there are more 102 in Poland then elswhere.
