Evening all. This is my most recent acquisition from France. A nice little 250CP Geniol, it is not without its failings however. At some stage, someone drilled through the crown of the hood in order to install a bulb and discarded the inner hood in the process. On the bright side there was no irreparable damage caused. The cable ran through the threaded hole seen here. It also came with a near perfect deep green shade doubled with white underneath. Seen here are the two small stress cracks I bought in a lot two hoods which are as new and a frame in brass which I was lucky to come across. I will get her polished up in the near future. I would leave it as is but with the mix match of brass it would look out of place I think.
Hi @eiremax that's really a good find! Just look after a inner hood and maybe close the hole at the top of the hood with some sort of fitting screw & washer. No need to solder the globe cage in my opinion. After a good fettle it should work like a charm! Good luck, Martin K.
A very nice little lantern, @eiremax! Fogas have a suitable complete inner hood. The stress cracks can be silver soldered. I recently repaired two Hipolito 250 Automatic lanterns that had the same stress cracks. I wonder if your Geniol is not from the same factory.
I already have two replacement hoods of which one i will use, looking at them it does seem that they are not of the same quality as of the Petromax relation. One can see the stress marks on them from forming. I have a Hipolito 500CP in its tarnished brass with no signs of stress marks, it looks quite well actually. It must be down to the quality of metals used.
Started the cleaning this morning. Lamp shows very little signs of use as can be seen in the photographs. The carburetor is slightly bent which is strange as the tank shows no signs of impact.
It will be best to straighten out the vaporiser. If it is bent, the conduction rod will not float loosely in the upright tube and the needle will not be able to center in the jet. It causes chronic problems resulting in bent needles and worn jets.
