You're lucky that the air tubes haven't been inhabited. It would have been difficult to get them completely free again.
Watched that video yesterday. There's another Coleman lantern showing up close to the end of that movie: [ATTACH]
That's a great area there! A few years ago I was there too, travelling from Sonora via Tioga Road to Tenaya Lake (that's where I think you took...
Hello @Reinhard! Nice Lantern that you have there. Petrolamp is listed in Neils PLC as follows: "250cp as Petromax 821. Alcohol pre heat only....
It reminds me a bit of that Solex lantern, although there are some differences of course. Maybe someone has put the parts together in the past. I...
Very interesting Lamps @Reinhard , surely the biggest ones I've seen yet. I'd be interested to see the catalogue, too.
That's a very good theory @MYN . My observations definitely point in the same direction. I had an Optimus with the same “disease”: after a while,...
The unit of measurement “CP” (= Candle Power), similar to “HK” (= Hefnerkerzen), does not refer to the total luminous flux emitted by a light...
Just look at other pictures of Petromax lanterns that can be found here in the reference gallery. There are plenty of modifications as you will...
Hello @Ophidia and welcome to the forum! Nice collection that you have there! The lantern on your 2nd picture is a Lightning Bug from HC lanterns,...
I'd just try to cut off a piece of the straight (short) end of the tube to sufficiently increase the distance between jet and tube, if the...
The part in MYNs post where the arrow points is mounted the wrong way (inside out). The tapered side shall make the metal to metal seal.
It was about the type of globe. And there are no AIDA globes to come by any more since a long time. But reproduction globes can be still obtained...
I can confirm that there is effective rust protection in the steel Petromax tanks, I guess something like red lead, certainly not the healthiest...
Definitely these are Standard models (most probably 3515) that have been modified to keep them in operation. They seem to turn up now and then in...
According to Teri-Ann Wakemans pages this looks like shade No. 501 which belongs to a US model 11 (see top left of second page). I have such a...
We have found partlists / drawings for the 2821 (and 2827) from 1941 and 1942 (and 1943). So it's probably a wartime model. It is reminiscent of...
It is most likely a Hasag part. Although they look a bit differently they are interchangeable between Hasag 34 and Petromax 900 from the 1930s.
Hello @EmilyUS64 and welcome to the forum! Your two items look great and the lantern seems to be unfired to me. Both devices are designed to burn...
1947 would have been already after the war. At this time there was some production of lanterns, but they looked quite differently: olive lacquered...
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