Nice lamp. If the pump travels its whole length easily (too easily) the leather pump washer is not sealing. Most probably it needs more oil and...
I think it is to hold the funnel after it has been used; the drips fall somewhere convenient.
I hadn't appreciated the similarities. It has always seemed odd that Tilley should put a different style hood on the X359 to other lanterns....
Pleased to hear it.
I think it is a design flaw in having a flat land on the tank. Inevitably it will bow under pressure and bend the feet of the frame. If...
I think the issue is that the upper part of a Tilley vapouriser clogs with carbon. It's not just a jet issue. Having cut the end off, you might...
If you have a flare up whenusing a vapouriser and burner known to be good, it's a bit of a mystery! Try two turns of the preheater and pump...
Resoldering is the way forward. But it's a bit odd. When having a stud project like this on other lamps, Tilley used a roundhead set screw with...
I think the first lamp is a mixture. A Bialaddin 300x or 305 (probably around 1950) with a Vapalux 300 hood (early to mid 1940s). Or, if you...
I have a slip of typed paper with a chrome plated hood X246b saying it was due to the industrial situation.
When I first started collecting, I put every change and oddity back to standard. I now regret that a bit, as the alterations and aberrations told...
OK. I think that the reduction in pressure occurs only after the jet, that is in the burner where the air is drawn in to create a combustible...
I thought the fuel (particularly in its liquid state) is at a pressure above atmospheric level in a Tilley type lantern, the pressure being...
I have had some success in rolling the dent out using a castor typed wheel. Working it backwards and forwards against a firm, smooth surface...
There is likely to be both 9/16 and 19/32 in my workshop (need to check!) - but they will be morse taper which is no good to you. Presumably you...
I have taken an AL15 apart, which has a similar feed tube. Assuming the AL620 is the same, there is a nut inside the tank holding the fuel tube...
If we are showing off, I paid £3 for a Tilley Jacobean (cup and stand only) and £5 each for my 1st and 2nd models Tilley SDR.
I've had three. 16.50 GBP without a gallery or glass 10.00 GBP pork pie - no glass and 10.00 GBP pork pie with both 182 glass and an opal...
We lost electricity for a little more than a day. So a Vapalux M1, Tilley Jacobean and an Optimus 11 were presswed into duty.
Possible, of course. But the diaphragm (or another part of the indicator) would need to fracture, the fuel would then need to pass through the...
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