The dried mess sounds like fuel, usually I find it leaked from the valve stem packing As to the washer- my H's only have a 'cresent moon' hold down washer that holds the burner plate to the frame and the frame to the fount, as seen here. If it was only near the valve wheel fuel would of been my sus...

Picked up a decent looking 228h with case recently and got it running, but i got two questions with it. The collar looks like somone caused a fireball trying to light it last time, how do you get the black/brown gunk off without removing the painted text. Simple green and a brush only went so far, s...

Rustytank wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:30 pm That will run just fine

Alright thankyou, just wanted to make sure there wouldnt be any issues. Now onto a cruddy 220j tank.... and possibly a fount repaint for giggles and shits aswell. Thankfully theres plenty of useful info on that here aswell.

Welcome to the forum! As Rusty stated, a mantle making contact with the generator will not hurt anything. The only issue might be breaking that mantle if you pull the generator. With two burners, what do you mean by the central burner tube? Yeah i meant the air intake tube on the burner assembly, i...

Relatively new lantern owner here with a 288A that i recently got working after a second attempt at fixing, F/A tube was clogged from a cruddy peeling tank, had to remove the schrader, Ended up with 2 more lanterns between attempts. Anyways, got a couple of questions about the thing. The central bur...