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For a minute there I thought maybe Keith (Majicwrench) had sent you the leg he had left after he sent me one for my 426B. Lots of great folks here. There's another member I owe thanks for a globe he generously sent me, but I'm hoping to be able to post pictures of it on my latest hollow wire project...

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Before I was ten I had a little neighborhood gang in Detroit. Like Our Gang, but without Spanky or Darla. We had Lillian, and Erv. We rode our bikes all over between 6 mile and 8 mile and from the Rouge River all the way to the Southfield Freeway. We only ran into a rival gang once when we were off ...

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Denatured alcohol on everything but a single fuel kerosene conversion with a 231ish preheat cup like the one Coleman patented for kerosene preheat. It really works quite well. https://i.postimg.cc/rwfgYLBG/231-ish-preheat-cup.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Bvsp6nxG/231-preheat-cup.png Denatured alcohol is...

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I thought so too Timm. I can't find any of my fitted mantles or even pictures of mantles that come close to fitting that style burner cap. I can tie a mantle above it. I'm still trying to master the pilot jet adjustment. This is what I think the correct burner cap would look like these. I see a tren...

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Flea market in Burlington, NC had a few odd colors.

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I know what I found it on, a Nagel Chase hollow wire lamp with a burner with a "Quicklit" pilot light, but I don't think it's correct. Trouble is, I have no idea where it came from. The burner is brass. The pin in the center of the burner screen is steel. A 200A burner cap will thread onto the burne...

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I lit up my '69 Coleman this evening. It's fitting, since it's from a time when my friends served. They were as much a love story as a comedy team and I miss them dearly. I dusted off their stone at the Veteran's cemetery today and sat with them for a bit. I always hear Grateful Dead lyrics in my he...

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If Keith isn't interested I'll take it.

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That's a cool collectable.

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I did not know until this moment about any of those facts! Well, the shoe-tying thing I can’t say. My shoes do stay on both feet, so while I may not be tying them correctly, I am clearly doing so effectively. Ulf. I only noticed it occasionally when tying dress shoes. If the loops aren't hanging to...

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Nice snag Ulf. I was hoping it'd get sold before I was tempted.

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I was 62 when I learned that those lines meant anything. Not too bad. I was 50 before I learned how to "correctly" tie my shoes every time and 55 when I learned that Chinese food containers unfolded into a paper plate.

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My 3/61 228E is still a pile of parts. No progress on it in five or six years. This thread might give me a push.

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Very creative. It's a cute little one too.

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We had a guy come to the parts counter and toss a burned out 194 bulb on the counter. They get a silver, almost chrome appearance to the glass when they burn out slowly.

Parts guy offers him a new (clear) 194 bulb.

He says "No, I want one just like that." indicating the silver bulb.

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If you could see them the hawks and foxes in the neighborhood saw them too. I'm on a bunny/coyote cycle here. Like Keith said, the populations really wax and wane.

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The lamp world isn't exempt from craziness. How about this "Antique 1920-22 Aladdin... Model 9 lamp."

I think they're fishing, bacause a Model 9 would be a find. Model 6 is dirt common.

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I was looking for the cartridges and this caught my eye. I have two of these C02 dischargers in my muzzle loader box. With the flintlock discharger tip you could pressurize a CQ with no special adapters on the lamp. This thing has similar limitation to the single use that Timm mentioned. It's usuall...

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You'd have to search the web for them. There were a couple members here playing with them. I remember something about soda dispensers. Might put a WTB in the classified section.

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It's a CO2 pressure device. They take a cartridge smaller than what CO2 pistols take.

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Tgarner01 wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 1:02 pm Turn your mobile device to landscape mode and it'll show.

That's really cool. Even if I used the mobile version exclusively I probably would've never noticed that. Wow! Thanks Toby.

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If Bill passes, I'll take it.

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That's some creative recycling. The adapter looks like something off a fire hose. I like that bug screen.

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Very special. I like the design of the box and how securely the lantern and funnel are held when the lid is closed. Thoughtful design.

Beautifully preserved lantern.

Any markings, initials or anything on the box?

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In the BOQ is a great place to be during a hurricane. Nice solid buildings. When I was on Okinawa we spent a typhoon in the shop working on our cars. The gates were allowing only emergency traffic. We had an emergency. No food. When the wind was right we opened the roll up door enough to get my car ...

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That's unusual alright.

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Another welcome from North Carolina. I'm way over on the coast, about as far from Utah as you can get going almost straight East.

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I like it Murff. Just add a preheat cup and some kerosene and it'd be a multi-fuel.

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There's a wonderful cut-away picture somewhere, but at the bottom of the tube is what looks like a metal cup with four wings. It holds the bottom of the tube in place and let's fuel in at four corners. No screen. Sometimes the winged piece will be loose and rattle a bit, but I've not had any fuel de...

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Do you have another generator to try? You're disassembled as far as a CQ can really go without rapidly diminishing return. If it flows fuel up the stand pipe it's good. Everything below there is soldered on both ends.

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Looking sharp Aaron. Good to have all the teeth!

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That's a nice one Toby. I like their shade retention.

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My 158 stands out as the shortest of my small Coleman lamps. I thought something may have been altered, but I think they're all a little short. Very handy little lamp to carry around when you need some light in a spot that's too dark.

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The look great Terry. If you swap the spare complete burner with the electric one you can enjoy the lamp as a mantle lamp or as an electric lamp. Must be nice to have a spare burner. The very first Kero-Lite I got was electrified and had been gutted. I bought the brass stock and started making the b...

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Great looking 158. They're great little lamps. Sweet deal for somebody. Can you possibly post a picture of the top burner stud and shade holders? In both pictures the shade holder is blocking the view of the stud.

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I found the heat was nice and the sideways fire was a novelty, but it was more fun to be able to see the flames. I never got it quite right, but I think a big Pyrex pan would make a heat resisting window to see what's going on with a fire inside a rocket mass heater.

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Rusty, your 6" well pipe reminds me of a spot we had on the crest of a ridge that bordered out lake. it was probably a lookout spot for the growers tending the marijuana fields in the valley on the back side of the lake, but during the Michigan winter it was our spot to thaw out after playing hockey...

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That looks great. Will be even better making light. I like the artichoke shade.

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I got a truck full of fire bricks about twenty years ago and started fooling with different designs of rocket stoves with vertical feed sideways fire. I just laid them up with no mortar. Made some nice thermal mass heaters that were very nice for sitting around or on during pleasant outdoor fire wea...

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https://i.postimg.cc/VkHQfXtP/IMG-20230516-222642.jpg Here's a different one for Wickie Wednesday. A Home Supply Company Beacon burner in an old wickie font. From 1910-1912 this Model 1 was the screw-in upgrade for homes with flat wick lamps. The side draft mantle lamp must've been quite a shocking...

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I got mine today. The postman didn't tear this one up too badly at all.

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Hello, and welcome from coastal North Carolina.

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Look at around 1900 Dietz Bow and Mill lamps. They used Dietz above every burner I can find marked Convex, but it's the same distinctive burner. If you search old patents you may find the maker of your lamp. It may before Dietz manufactured the burner.

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Whoohoo! The techno whiz is here!

Nice work Joe.

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Ugh! Moving. Yuck. When I could drag everything I owned around the world on my back was probably the easiest time of my life. Not the happiest or the best, but it sure was easy when life fit in a sea bag. I'll give it a few more image searches and see if I can nail it down. It looks very nice. Hey! ...

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Somebody did a restoration on one similar to that. I think that one was British. Maybe Erwin will remember.

Beautiful glass. Have you removed the burner and looked on every surface for a makers mark?

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The mantle with frame from Imperial Lighting would fix you up.

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That's a pretty one Neil. Is the chimney not seated, or is that how it's made? Might be a perfect match for the crooked base I've got. Just align the crooked chimney to compensate for the crooked base.

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