Tilley Lamp, left un-used

Hello! Beeing new to this Forum, I hope to acquire some knowledge.

A couple of years ago, I bought a Tilley X246B from the Danish "Army-shop". It appeared to be relatively un-used and looked good too!

However, it wouldn't burn properly, with a lot of flames outside the mantle so i've now decided to change the vapourizer and all of the washers. A quick question. When leaving the tilley after use, do you release the pump? I've once released the pressure and tightened the pump again with the control knob "off" but the day after it had pressurised itself a bit (Leaving a mess of Kerosene on my desk). What do you do

Thanks

 

Welcome aboard!
I always leave the pump on a Tilley unscrewed after I have released the pressure.

 

Welcome to CPL @JonasRiis

A recent post about the same issue. Turning off Tilley- do you remove pressure?

 

Thank you so much!

Looking forward to get her going!

 

In my opinion its always safer to leave the pump released and unscrewed.

 

Yes, I too after use, release the pressure and leave the pump loose to prevent any build up of pressure in the fount/tank.
Cheers
Pete

 

Welcome on the board Jonas, safer is not holding pressure in the lamp...

 

@JonasRiis
Has sent you a PM
Tom