Picked this one up from a buddy a couple months ago. It was missing a few pieces that I finally scrounged up and installed. Those being a pricker and pricker rod that extends below the frame as well as a burnt valve wheel and of course missing mica chimney... Another collector who has a similar model with the porcelain coated vent had a spare valve wheel and pricker that I installed and then I homemade a lever that extends below the frame to control it. I just so happened to have a rough mica chimney that was the correct also. This one has a slot in the bottom of the frame that I assumed was for the cleaning rod to pass through... Another oddity as most of the torch lite Nulite's I see have the rod to the left... This model uses a separate pump to pressurize. Nulite made internal pump models as well. Replaced valve wheel matches the rest of the patina Here is the burner assembly broke down before the replacement pricker arrived. I ended up using tiki torch wick with some brass mesh on the top side to repack the generator. Seems to work great. A photo from above before I had reworked the cleaning lever. Here's a couple photos of the vent next to an AGM 278 vent for size and color comparison.. The Nulite being on the left. And of course the flame shot. It really works great. Just doing the minimum to get it running. Overall a fun fettle, albeit a simple one... With only two known examples (and both of those being a bit different) I think I'll just leave it as is for the time being. If anyone has one of these torch lighting Nulite's with the porcelain coated vent I would sure like to see it for comparisons sake. @Mackburner please share anything you feel I have left out. My thoughts are these were possibly a Nulite export as both examples were found near or south of the U.S./Mexico border. Thanks for looking
That's a fine lantern, @Toby Garner, and well fettled. I'm interested to see how the tiki wick hold up in a generator... Cheers Tony
@Tony Press this is my first go with tiki torch wick, but I have read of others having luck on Coleman torch lighting lamps and lanterns... Time will tell
