Went to a farm clearing sale last friday old engines and a pump far too dear for me even an "old"Albury beer bottle made $1,500.oo But these interesting Nagel Chase lights came home with me
Those old HW units can be well worth picking up. Not easy to make run because of the remote fuel feed but they can be a cheap way of finding burner units and generators for portable lamps. Nice find and early stuff too. ::Neil::
just love them, really beatiful design, "remote fuel" ?? , aren't there a tank at the top of them, like gravity lamps? best Regards Joakim
No Joakim, these are real pressure lamps. The only difference is that the tank isn't combined with the lamp, but rather placed on a more convenient place for filling and pumping when the lamp itself was placed more remotely as in the case of when positioned high up under the ceiling. "Hollow Wire", as the Americans and Brits call it. I'm not sure there is a Swedish word for this phenomena even if the system was available here too. Just not as common as in some other countries. Here's a marriage between a Lux lamp and an Aladdin tank to show the principle of the remote tank, the hollow wire and the actual lamp:
We sometimes call this "System Lighting". Basic idea is a house or factory had a number of light fittings which would be fixed in position and therefore not portable. All would be supplied with fuel from a single remote fuel and pressure tank perhaps outside the building or in a remote room and the fuel feed is a small bore pipe (called a Hollow wire in America) which supplied fuel to all the lamp fittings and in some cases to cooking stoves as well. This idea was common in America where most lamp companies marketed systems and in fact for some companies it was their major business. It was rare in the UK although some American systems were advertised here and even Tilley dabbled with the idea although to date no fittings have been found. It was also used in Australia where Gloria sold light systems up to the early 1950s. ::Neil::
I am going to have a try at fettling these and as a start need to know if I can get replacement (or substitute) mantle (holder/gas screens)thread is 5/8"x28tpi Nagel Chase Model 175 Any sugestions/input Welcome
