How hot do they get? Can I repaint in standard auto acrylics or will I need heat resist? There are minor chips/cracks in the glass, nothing serious. Will this have a seriously adverse effect on the light or is it something I'm likely to be able to live with? Ditto there are a couple of spots where the chrome has flaked on the reflector, especially around the burner, live withable?
It would be best to use heat resisting paint on the reflector casing, but the rest of the lamp does not get that hot and in my opinion the other points are not worth bothering about, Jeff.
Hi Jeff's right but i always use high temp paint like BBQ or stove black especialy on the top vents of FL's or similar as they can get really hot See here.... http://0flo.com/index.php?threads/3859 Stu .
The paint Tilley used wasn't heatproof and usually burns off the vent at the top of the casing. Later versions were galvanised...
I don't see that the gauge is much use anyway. So you know when it's getting near empty, but you have to release the pressure to fill it up anyway...
Maybe someone with the knowledge could explain this one. I removed the bolt that was "in place of" the fuel meter. From the outside it is a plain brass bolt with a slightly recessed head. On the inside there is a cork float on a swingarm... But it doesn't appear to be connected to anything. Reminds me of the fuel sensor in a Vespa, but that's by-the-by. How did the meter (which I obviously have half of) work?
That gauge used a magnet with a compass type of needle to show the movement of the lever inside the tank. The "cork float on a swingarm" sounds like the real deal to me. It actually sounds by your description that someone just simply removed the outer part of the gauge, i.e. the compass, but left the rest inside. A picture or two would help alot...
The gauge was made, effectively, in two separate halves to prevent fuel escaping. On the inside the cork float turned a magnet. On the outside a plotting compass marked 'Full' and 'Empty' was turned by the magnet. That way, there was no spindle between the float and the compass needle that would need to be sealed to prevent fuel loss - the linkage is magnetic rather than mechanical. Clever, eh? As Christer suggests, it sounds like on yours the compass part has fallen out and become lost...
Ah... what an odd (but workable) system. I can live with it. Slightly annoyed as I was at the same auction tonight and they had a much better condition FL6. I hadn't enough folding left to buy it
All done. I've added the torch from a vapalux 320... Hope it works. Will test fire it tomorrow night as it's the solstice (or because I can't be bothered tonight).
