E bay ?ForgeCorvus wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 6:37 pm Anyone have a source for replacement lantern glass?
One of my good ones interfaced with a hobnail boot.
Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
Re: Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
-
- Posts: 8773
- Joined: Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:06 pm
Re: Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
The Feuerhand globeForgeCorvus wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 6:37 pm Anyone have a source for replacement lantern glass?
One of my good ones interfaced with a hobnail boot.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/372456383349 ... SwyEdbs2PZ
Bought from that supplier before with no issue and found them at a reenactment day a few years ago
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
Steer clear of Blackspur then, don't write off other clones. I've used Hurricane lanterns of all makes for over 50 years of camping and the Fuerhand are way over priced.
Tonight a big Chalwyn on the shelf, clone and a Fuerhand and brewing on a Birmingham made 1950s Primus No210 clone and all working fine and dandy
1954 Bialaddin British army lantern and Optimus 8 from the 70s
As a stove collector I strongly suggest you learn to look after your kit and it will outlive you.
Tonight a big Chalwyn on the shelf, clone and a Fuerhand and brewing on a Birmingham made 1950s Primus No210 clone and all working fine and dandy
1954 Bialaddin British army lantern and Optimus 8 from the 70s
As a stove collector I strongly suggest you learn to look after your kit and it will outlive you.
Richard
South Wales UK
Retired, spending the children's inheritance.
South Wales UK
Retired, spending the children's inheritance.
-
- Posts: 8773
- Joined: Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:06 pm
Re: Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
It's all well and good saying look after your kit but when they leak out the celophane or drop to bits without provocation there's not much you can do...
The Feuerhand can be had for £20 if you shop about
I like the old stuff even the copies and clones were decent quality unlike the modern junk back then even the Chinese stuff was good when they had to go toe to toe with the world's competition..
now the once great British manufacturing base is almost gone and firms stick their name onto the products churned out by Chinese factory which was the lowest quote for X thousand units ... and you've no chance of getting spare parts
which is why I mentioned the Feuerhand there's a local
ISH firm as I mentioned above in the globe link which I know I can order parts from be it a wick or a globe and all been well when I need it it won't let me down (fingers crossed)
The British made copies or just made in England were at one point a vastly superior product to what you can get now and as you say still work today..
The Feuerhand can be had for £20 if you shop about
I like the old stuff even the copies and clones were decent quality unlike the modern junk back then even the Chinese stuff was good when they had to go toe to toe with the world's competition..
now the once great British manufacturing base is almost gone and firms stick their name onto the products churned out by Chinese factory which was the lowest quote for X thousand units ... and you've no chance of getting spare parts
which is why I mentioned the Feuerhand there's a local
ISH firm as I mentioned above in the globe link which I know I can order parts from be it a wick or a globe and all been well when I need it it won't let me down (fingers crossed)
The British made copies or just made in England were at one point a vastly superior product to what you can get now and as you say still work today..
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
Fingerlamps:
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
- diamond lil
- Posts: 9773
- Joined: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:42 pm
- Location: Scotland.
Re: Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
I love the pics of the lamps, they're lovely.
Re: Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
You can pick them up on Ebay for £20. Type in fingerlamps and the seller thetilleyman has 20+ up for sale
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Re: Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
Parasene brand candle lantern from the 90s and a German Turm domestic stove, fully adjustable and runs on meths/ethanol this one is from the late 40s
Cheap Chinese hurricane lantern has still not started leaking
Cheap Chinese hurricane lantern has still not started leaking
Richard
South Wales UK
Retired, spending the children's inheritance.
South Wales UK
Retired, spending the children's inheritance.
Re: Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
I guess yours wouldn’t
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Re: Lessons from a 100 hour power outage
I expect all my stoves and lanterns to outlive me.
Richard
South Wales UK
Retired, spending the children's inheritance.
South Wales UK
Retired, spending the children's inheritance.