Has anyone in lampland fettled a Tilley Iron? I've been given one and would like to get it back up.and running...
It is cream/ivory. I have taken it to bits, the tank will need repainting and the pump is seized.The enamel on the iron is chipped in places but the plate seems to be ok. lamps are my main interest but i'd like to get this going for the hell of it plus its a Tilley!
i also have an extra pump in working condition plus inner parts the burner and such and a tank in nice shape
Hi Scouter Bill You say the pump is seized. It has a screw locking device to stop the pump rod sliding out whilst ironing. Hope this helps. Regards, Jeremy
I managed to get some "Tilley Time" in today and after some cleaning and general fettling I got my iron to work and have the blister on my finger to prove it!
There are no red ones per se. There is the DN250A which has a chrome body and a tank which was either painted cream or red. The DN250A was produced alongside the cream enamelled DN250 in the late sixties, superseded it after a short time and was produced until sometime in the eighties, most were exported.
...Hmmm, Chrome eh?...Sounds quite swish!... ...Just looked in the Reference Section...No Chrome Irons, just the Cream ones?... .. ...Would it be possible for some kind soul who has one to post a few pics for posterity at all please???... ...I've only ever seen the Cream one.....
So it is! I didn't even check since PodBros said that there wasn't any. This one Spoiler It's , so possibly the same that is showing at Terry's site.
...Whoops So there is!....... .... ....I must get this poor old notebook fixed; I have to keep scrolling left and rite to read things and hadn't noticed there was another page!... ..... .... Dear oh dear, what else have i missed an not noticed i wonder..... ..er, many thanks for pointing that out...shuffle..scrape..grovel..
You boys all like this iron so much you should come and do my ironing, there's enough of it to go around! Seriously, I thought about buying one of these a few years ago when a nice boxed one could be had for very little and now they cost as much as some steam generator irons.
I am not so sure that DN250 and DN250A were sold concurrently. I have DN250 in price lists up to 1964 and then DN250A appears in the 1968 list. I am missing 1965-1967 lists though so it is perhaps possible. What is more likely is that retailers were still offering old stock of the earlier model for some years after 1968. The last list I have showing DN250A is 1980 but then I am missing info from 1981 to 1988 so it may have been made well into the 1980s. I do know the plated body irons are much harder to find which probably reflects declining sales in the domestic market. ::Neil::
Always happy to be corrected. I was just going on what I've read elsewhere and the few irons with receipts that I've seen. I have yet to see a chrome iron on sale in the UK, but I have seen them for sale in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. I know you've been collecting for ten times as long as I have.
It was meant no other way, David. You could also say he has been collecting for almost as long as I have been on this earth, but keep that to yourself.
Hey wait! I read a post where you said 30 years! I'll take your word for it, I retract everything I said, I'm not that old...
Probably a typo. Easy to poke at 5 and hit 3 instead. This keyboard does not always do what I ask of it. The interface between brain and pc tends to be intermittently faulty. ::Neil::
I came across a DN.250 today, but I didn't buy it beacuse I already had one. I did however comment that if it had been a chrome DN.250a I would have bought it. Why did I say that, not long later look what turned up. Boxed with a funnel and original red spanner in hardly used condition. I'll take some better pictures for the gallery when it's had a polish.
I was going to put this in my comment in the gallery, but it's probably better to put it here. The English/French stamp, were there any instructions in the box? Could it have been meant for export to the Canadian market?
